The Ducati rider missed out on pole position to Espargaro by 0.031s, but already anticipates the Barcelona race to be a different challenge due to the hot and slippery track conditions in the high temperatures, which will make tyre conservation over the race distance the key test. Aprilia’s Espargaro demonstrated eye-catching race pace in practice, […]
The Aprilia rider produced a new lap record of Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona earlier in the day in third free practice, and duly repeated the feat with a 1m38.742s with his penultimate lap in qualifying. But the home hero was made to sweat over top spot with Ducati’s Bagnaia on a charge with his final flying […]
The cooler track temperatures on Saturday morning relative to how they were on Friday afternoon meant improvements on the combined order started to show in the opening stages of FP3. After just seven minutes of running in the 45-minute session, seven riders had made gains on their Friday best – Ducati’s Jack Miller the most […]
Marquez badly broke his right humerus in a crash in the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix, which ultimately ruled him out of the campaign and required him to have three operations on it. He returned to MotoGP competition in April on 2021, and though he won three races he struggled for fitness in his right […]
VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi set the early pace on his GP21, jumping up to fifth on the combined order before improving to third with a 1m40.577s – which put the Italian rookie third overall. It wouldn’t until halfway through the 45-minute afternoon session at Barcelona when Alex Rins’ best effort from FP1 was toppled […]
Aleix Espargaro dominated Friday practice at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, topping the combined timesheets by 0.303s from Aprilia team-mate Maverick Vinales. Espargaro is on a purple patch in 2022, coming to his home race off the back of four-straight podium finishes to add to his Argentina victory. The low-grip nature of the Barcelona track is […]
The Barcelona circuit was predicted by Quartararo to be a tricky track for the Yamaha given the track’s long pitstraight and the bike’s lack of power. The Catalan GP venue is also notoriously low grip, conditions the Yamaha typically struggles in, with Quartararo only eighth fastest and around seven tenths off the pace after a […]
MotoGP’s return to Spain for its second of four races in the country began under perfect conditions, with home favourite Aleix Espargaro setting the early pace on his Aprilia with a 1m41.734s. The Spaniard comes into the ninth round of the campaign in Barcelona just eight points off the championship lead after becoming just the […]
Just a week after the Italian Grand Prix, MotoGP continues to Spain for its second race in the country this year – this time at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo comes into the Barcelona weekend leading the standings by eight points from Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro, after a strong ride to second […]
Jack Miller is set to lose his place at the factory Ducati squad for 2023 as he explores options at KTM and LCR Honda. It is expected that one of three-time race winner Enea Bastianini or Pramac’s one-time grand prix victor Jorge Martin will replace Miller at the factory squad. But on the eve of […]