Honda announced that Marquez will have an operation following the Mugello race in Minnesota in America. Marquez badly broke his right arm at the Spanish Grand Prix in 2020, which ultimately ruled him out of that entire campaign as he underwent three operations on the injury. The first proved unsuccessful as he damaged the […]
On Saturday after qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, Honda announced that Marquez would be travelling to Rochester, Minnesota to have a fourth operation on the right arm he badly broke back in 2020. Marquez has suffered with the arm ever since he returned to action last April, with his problems only heightened by a […]
The Italian has had a largely under-the-radar start to his MotoGP career on his 2021-spec Gresini Ducati, taking a best of 13th last time out at Le Mans, while 11th in Indonesia was his best qualifying performance. Di Giannantonio used the iffy conditions in Q1 at Mugello to top the session and progress to Q2, […]
Qualifying was run under spots of rain as thunder rumbled around the Mugello circuit on Saturday afternoon, with Q1 initially beginning on wet tyres before a switch to slicks despite marshals still waving rain flags. The Q2 pole shootout session was ultimately completed on slick tyres, with Gresini rookie Fabio Di Giannantonio using his knowledge […]
Having only scored one pole before in his entire grand prix career, Di Giannantonio guided his Gresini-run 2021-spec Ducati from Q1 to a maiden pole to lead an Italian 1-2-3 ahead of Valentino Rossi’s duo Marco Bezzecchi and Luca Marini. Rain appeared not long into the preceding FP4 sessions and meant the first 15-minute shootout […]
Despite its favourite status at Mugello this weekend, FP3 got off to a fairly disastrous start for the Italian manufacturer. In the early stages Gresini rookie Fabio Di Giannantonio ran off into the Turn 1 gravel at the same time VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi did, with the latter crashing. At the same time factory Ducati rider […]
The rider market for the 2023 season is in a hot state at the moment following the shock decision from Suzuki following the Spanish Grand Prix to quit MotoGP at the end of the year. This has put both Alex Rins and Joan Mir on the market, as well as the likes of Jack Miller […]
Marquez spent Friday at the Italian Grand Prix comparing a new chassis with his current race bike and ended the day 12th overall, 0.767 seconds off the pace set by Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro. Honda hasn’t come close to winning a race since the opening night of the championship in Qatar, while Marquez is yet to […]
On Friday at the Italian Grand Prix, Aprilia announced it had reached a deal with RNF for it to become the Italian manufacturers’ satellite squad from 2023 on an initial two-year deal. RNF currently fields Dovizioso and Darryn Binder on Yamaha machinery, but neither is contracted beyond the end of 2022. Dovizioso has endured a […]
Celebrating his new two-year deal with Aprilia, which was announced on Thursday, Espargaro guided his RS-GP – which in FP2 was powered by a new engine – to top spot with a 1m45.891s. He was shadowed by the factory Ducati of Francesco Bagnaia on a 1m45.940s, who led an onslaught of Ducatis consisting of team-mate […]