The 2022 campaign has been the strongest Espargaro has ever had in his grand prix racing career having taken his maiden MotoGP victory in April in Argentina. Since then, he has scored four more podiums and has only finished outside of the top five twice in the first 11 races. His title hopes took a […]
Three-time MotoGP race winner Rins was shockingly put onto the rider market for 2023 alongside team-mate Joan Mir when Suzuki announced following the Spanish Grand Prix that it would be quitting MotoGP at the end of the 2022 season. Rins has been linked to several teams, including KTM, RNF Racing for its switch to Aprilia […]
Morbidelli was Yamaha’s leading rider in 2020 aboard his Petronas SRT-run 2019-spec M1, the Italian winning three races and finishing runner-up to Suzuki’s Joan Mir in the championship. Since then he has struggled to recapture that form, with his ageing bike coupled with injury woes blighting his 2021 season, while a move to the factory […]
The South African – younger brother of Brad Binder – became the first rider since Jack Miller in 2015 to go directly from Moto3 to MotoGP this season when he was signed by RNF to ride a year-old Yamaha. PLUS: The MotoGP rookie fighting two fronts in his debut year Binder has endured a tough […]
At the halfway point of the season, the highest-placed Ducati rider in the standings is third-placed Johann Zarco, who is 58 points adrift of championship leader Fabio Quartararo. The marque’s leading factory team rider Francesco Bagnaia cut his deficit down from 91 with victory before the summer break at the Dutch Grand Prix, but still […]
Last month the six-time MotoGP world champion underwent a complex operation on his right arm. It was the fourth time has had surgery since badly breaking his arm in a crash at the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix, as he bids to return to regain the full fitness and mobility he has lacked throughout his comeback […]
Reigning world champion and the current points leader Fabio Quartararo has been very critical of the lack of progress Yamaha made over the winter with its 2022 bike. In particular, Quartararo took aim at the fact the bike was still not delivering top speed enough to challenge its faster rivals, which has been an issue […]
Suzuki surprised the MotoGP paddock in May when it announced it would pull out of the series at the end of the 2022 campaign, just seven years after it returned to the premier class. The Japanese manufacturer won its first world title in 20 years courtesy of Joan Mir in 2020, having rebuilt its team […]
The Japanese manufacturer has scored just 85 points in the constructors’ championship so far in 2022 after 11 races, mustering just a single podium courtesy of Pol Espargaro’s third place in Qatar. Since then, its best result has been a fourth for Marc Marquez at Jerez, with the six-time world champion still its top rider […]
According to reports in Spanish outlet Diario de Ibiza, Bagnaia crashed a Citroen into a ditch on the side of a road in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The Guardia Civil and local police arrived at the scene and performed a breathalyser test on the driver, who was identified as Bagnaia. Bagnaia gave a […]