The Italian set a new lap record on Saturday in France to claim his second-successive pole position and Ducati’s first at Le Mans. Bagnaia led Ducati team-mate Jack Miller by 0.069 seconds in the end, but was not confident of being able to fight for pole during the preceding 30-minute FP4 session because he […]
The six-time world champion struggled with a lack of rear grip with the hotter temperatures experienced this afternoon at the French Grand Prix in qualifying and could only manage 10th on the grid. Marquez says his feeling was strong in the cooler conditions on Saturday morning, but got worse over the rest of the day […]
KTM made a strong start to the 2022 season with its new RC16 after an initially difficult testing phase. Brad Binder took second in the Qatar Grand Prix and Miguel Oliveira won in a wet Indonesia, but results have been far more inconsistent since then. Oliveira was 12th last time out in Spain having been fifth […]
This weekend’s race at Le Mans marks the first round since last week’s shock reveal that Suzuki will leave MotoGP at the end of the campaign, with the Japanese marque officially confirming its intentions on Thursday at Le Mans. Despite the uncertainty this has caused both riders, Friday at Le Mans proved strong for the […]
The six-time world champion as expected to be a contender for the 2022 title having almost fully-recovered from the badly broken right arm which ruled him out of the 2020 season and conditions his 2021. But Honda’s radical overhaul of the RC213V coupled with an eye injury which forced him to miss the Argentina round […]
The Italian, twice a winner in the 2022 season on his year-old GP21 bike, lapped 0.202s faster than Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro in a soft rubber time attack late in the second free practice session. Bastianini had already seen a lap quicker than Espargaro’s benchmark scrubbed, having set the time under yellow flags caused by a […]
Friday’s running at Le Mans was held in bright and warm conditions across both sessions, with Gresini’s Enea Bastianini beating the outright lap record in FP2 to end the day fastest. But across both sessions there were 14 crashes at various points of the track. Le Mans is known for being the circuit with the […]
As was the case this morning, Suzuki’s Alex Rins set the early pace with a 1m32.192s at the start of FP2 as most of the field went out on the medium front and rear tyres. A few moments after Rins had gone top of the order, team-mate Joan Mir crashed on the way into Turn […]
The current regulations state non-concession manufacturers are permitted to use seven engines across the season, while concession marque’s can use nine. However, this rule was written when the calendar consisted of less than 20 races, with the 2022 schedule set to include 21 grands prix. As a result, with immediate effect an eighth engine has […]
Last Monday, following the post-Spanish Grand Prix test at Jerez, Autosport revealed Suzuki management had gathered the MotoGP race team that afternoon and informed it of its decision to quit the series at the end of the current campaign. This decision from Suzuki, who only returned to MotoGP in 2015, came completely out of the […]