The Spaniard joined Honda’s factory team for 2023 alongside Marc Marquez after Suzuki’s shock exit from the series at the end of last season. The 2020 world champion has only finished one grand prix, the season opener in Portugal, where he took all five of the points he has scored so far this season. Mir […]
The Tech3 GasGas rider had been out of action since suffering multiple back and jaw fractures in a crash during FP2 for the Portuguese GP and made his return at Silverstone last weekend. At the end of a mentally and physically draining weekend, Espargaro finished both races and scored points in the grand prix and […]
The 2021 world champion came together with the VR46 rider on lap 18 of Sunday’s race, losing the front of his fairing, which forced him to pit for his other bike. Marini escaped unscathed, while Quartararo went on to finish 15th of the 17 riders to cross the line, the Frenchman running as high as […]
MotoGP’s return from its summer break did not disappoint, as a dramatic weekend concluded with a thrilling British Grand Prix. The rider market saga kicked off proceedings at Silverstone, with news of Alex Rins replacing Franco Morbidelli at Yamaha in 2024 opening up more rumours about bike swaps. On track, Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro put in […]
The Ducati rider led for much of Sunday’s 20-lap Silverstone grand prix, holding his nerve when rain fell in the latter stages while Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales, and KTM’s Brad Binder bore down on him. Bagnaia was ultimately beaten by Espargaro after a last-lap move into Maggotts. In MotoGP’s last wet contest in […]
As part of a format tweak for the remainder of the 2023 season, Friday’s second practice session is the only one that now counts towards Saturday’s qualifying. The top 10 riders at the end of the session progress directly into the Q2 qualifying segment, while the rest go through Q1. Aprilia’s Espargaro fired in a […]
Jake Dixon had a comfortable career in front of him in 2017. Having stepped up to the British Superbike Championship in 2016 for a part-campaign that was interrupted by a broken hip following a brake failure at Oulton Park, he bounced back with his first race wins in 2017. The youngest ever rider to make […]
The Aprilia rider pipped championship leader Bagnaia on the line by 0.215 seconds after an enthralling last-lap battle on slick tyres as rain fell in parts of the Silverstone track. Espargaro made his decisive move on the run into the first part of the Maggotts complex on the final tour, slicing through on Bagnaia to […]
The eight-time world champion endured a torrid first half of the 2023 campaign, scoring just 15 points from eight rounds in which he missed races in five of them and crashed 14 times. It plunged his continued future at Honda into doubt, though he said during the Silverstone weekend that his “intention” is to see […]
The Aprilia rider’s second career grand prix victory came after he threw his RS-GP up the inside of Ducati’s Bagnaia into Maggotts on the final lap and fended him off through the rest of the tour. A late rain shower turned the final laps into a five-rider battle for the win, with KTM’s Brad Binder […]