Last week, Autosport revealed Suzuki’s Japanese management had told its MotoGP race team at Jerez during the post-Spanish Grand Prix test that it was quitting the series at the end of the 2022 campaign. The news – which was officially confirmed by Suzuki on Thursday ahead of this weekend’s French GP at Le Mans, as […]
The 2013 Moto2 world champion joined Honda last season on a two-year contract and was expected to remain in the seat for 2023. However, Suzuki’s shock decision to quit MotoGP at the end of 2022 – which was officially confirmed on Thursday ahead of the French Grand Prix, a week after Autosport’s first reports – […]
Last week, Autosport reported Suzuki had informed its race team of its intentions to quit MotoGP at the end of the 2022 season, with the Japanese marque confirming on Thursday ahead of the French Grand Prix that it was now in discussions with Dorna about ending its contract early. The official reason given was due […]
This will be the first French GP since before the COVID-19 pandemic to welcome a capacity crowd, and coincides with Quartararo’s homecoming as the reigning world champion. Quartararo is France’s first world champion in MotoGP. Quartararo comes into the French GP leading the standings after his dominant victory in Portugal and a second-place finish behind […]
The MotoGP World Championship live broadcasting rights are exclusively held by BT Sport, with the subscription service the home of MotoGP coverage in the UK since 2014, when it took over from the BBC. Prior to BT’s takeover, the BBC aired all qualifying and races live on BBC2 for the MotoGP class, while Moto2 and […]
Quartararo came into grand prix racing billed as the next Marquez in 2015, but floundered in his early GP years in Moto3 and Moto2. A breakout campaign in Moto2 in 2018 in which he won his first grand prix led him to a MotoGP ride with Petronas SRT and Yamaha for 2019, where he […]
Turkish superstar Razgatlioglu delivered Yamaha its first WSBK title in 2021 since 2009 when he beat Jonathan Rea in a thrilling season that went down to the final round in Indonesia last November. Razgatlioglu had been linked to a MotoGP switch for 2022 with Yamaha’s satellite outfit – which was formerly Petronas SRT, and is […]
The Italian has been Ducati’s leading light so far in 2022 on his GP21, having won twice in Qatar and America and leading the standings up until the Portimao round. He remains the top Ducati runner in the championship in third despite a difficult run to eighth in last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez, […]
On Monday Autosport broke the bombshell news that Suzuki will quit MotoGP at the end of the season in a decision it only communicated to the race team on the same day during the post-race test at Jerez. An official announcement was expected on Tuesday, but did not materialise. Instead, Dorna Sports – MotoGP owners […]
Yamaha has come into the 2022 season with a bike that hasn’t evolved much from the 2021 M1 Quartararo won the championship with, particularly in terms of horsepower. Quartararo struggled to ninth in Qatar, was eighth in Argentina and seventh in Austin, while in the wet in Indonesia he was second, victorious in Portugal and […]