Bagnaia lost the world championship lead for the first time since the Spanish GP in April after struggling to eighth in Saturday’s sprint at Mandalika as title rival Jorge Martin won. It capped off a generally difficult day for Bagnaia, who failed to get out of Q1 and qualified 13th, battling rear grip issues on […]
The duo come to Indonesia carrying collarbone injuries. Marini was forced to miss the Indian and Japanese GPs after sustaining his injury in a collision with Bezzecchi during the Indian GP sprint, while Bezzecchi suffered a fracture in a training incident last Saturday. Bezzecchi only arrived in Indonesia on Friday, where he was cleared to […]
Although the possibility of creating a kind of riders’ union has been flying around the paddock for years, it has not been until this season that the main parties involved have taken action on the matter and have begun the path towards its formation. The intention of this initiative is to give riders a greater […]
Having already set a new circuit record to get through Q1, VR46 rider Marini found yet more time in the final segment of qualifying as he became the first rider to break the 1m30s barrier with a time of 1m29.978s. He beat Aprilia duo Maverick Vinales and Aleix Espargaro, both of whom having been rapid […]
The Ducati satellite squad announced on Thursday ahead of the Indonesian Grand Prix that it had signed eight-time world champion Marquez for 2024, ending weeks of speculation. The path to this move was paved last week when Honda revealed it had agreed to mutually part ways with Marquez with a year left on his contract […]
A hectic hour of running to conclude Friday at the Mandalika track concluded with Espargaro firing in a new all-time lap record of 1m30.474s in the closing seconds. This deposed VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi, who underwent surgery on a broken collarbone five days ago and only turned up to Lombok this morning, after the […]
The eight-time world champion has spent his entire stint in MotoGP working with Santi Hernandez as his crew chief, who stepped up to the premier class with him from Moto2. As part of his one-year deal to join the Gresini Ducati squad and break contract with Honda a season early, Marquez will only be able […]
Bezzecchi, third in the championship, fractured his right collarbone in a crash while training at Valentino Rossi’s ranch last Saturday. The Italian underwent surgery on Sunday to have plates fitted to the collarbone and was cleared to race this weekend in Indonesia having only made it to Mandalika on Friday morning ahead of FP1. In […]
The world champion comes to the Mandalika track on the island of Lombok just three points ahead of Jorge Martin in the standings, having seen a 66-point lead eroded since the Catalan GP. Bagnaia looked out of sorts on Friday in Indonesia and could only manage 16th after making a mistake on his final flying […]
Martin set a time of 1m31.811s on his Pramac Ducati with just 40 seconds left on the clock, taking the top spot by 0.102s from long-time pacesetter Vinales. Vinales held the top spot for almost the entire 45-minute session at the Mandalika circuit and managed to find over a tenth on his final effort, but […]