Heavy rain has battered the Silverstone circuit all morning and led to FP3 and qualifying being run in torrid conditions. Both sessions ran to length, with VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi claiming pole as Marquez put his Gresini Ducati third. Qualifying was filled with crashes, with both Bezzecchi and Marquez going down, as did Francesco […]
Heavy rain has battered the Silverstone circuit all morning and led to the MotoGP final practice and qualifying sessions being run in extremely difficult conditions. Numerous riders crashed across both qualifying segments, including poleman Marco Bezzecchi, third-placed Alex Marquez and championship leader Francesco Bagnaia. As a result, the riders have… Continue Reading on Autosport
Having qualified last, Yamaha rider Quartararo could do no better than 21st in the 10-lap sprint on Saturday at Silverstone. For much of the contest, all of the six riders on Japanese bikes occupied the bottom six places in the field, with only Franco Morbidelli marginally sparing blushes by taking the chequered flag in 15th. […]
The Gresini rider went from third on the grid in the damp 10-lap sprint at Silverstone on Saturday to claim his first MotoGP victory after fending off a late charge from poleman Marco Bezzecchi. It marked Alex Marquez’s first grand prix win of any kind since 2019 in Moto2, and the first for the Marquez […]
The Ducati rider lined up fourth for Saturday’s race before dropping five positions on the opening lap. He then ran wide at Turn 15 to drop more positions, eventually finishing the race behind team-mate Enea Bastianini as the lowest-running Ducati. Reigning world champion Bagnaia said he felt like “something was not working well” during the […]
The Gresini Ducati rider lined up third and despite briefly falling back off the line to fifth, took two positions in as many corners to run second. He snatched the lead from KTM rider Jack Miller at Stowe the following lap and despite VR46 rider Bezzecchi’s late charge, Marquez took his maiden win. Bezzecchi’s second […]
VR46 Ducati rider Bezzecchi set the pole time with just over three minutes to go in an very wet Q2 with a 2m15.359s, before he crashed at the Vale chicane while on another quick flying lap. That time proved enough, though, with his nearest rival KTM’s Jack Miller, 0.270 seconds adrift as Alex Marquez brushed […]
The eight-time world champion has scored just five points in a woeful 2023 campaign, in which he has missed five grands prix due to various injury woes and crashed 14 times in eight rounds. While Marquez is contracted to Honda through to the end of 2024, the problems Honda is facing in MotoGP at present […]
The Tech3 GasGas rider suffered a horrible crash in FP2 for the season-opening Portuguese GP, sustaining multiple back and jaw fractures after hitting an unprotected tyre barrier. Espargaro has been out of action since then, only riding his MotoGP bike prior to Friday at Silverstone slowly up the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed […]
The 2021 world champion endured a difficult day at Silverstone on Friday, finishing 10th in first practice before ending up 11th in the second session to narrowly miss out on progressing directly into Q2. Quartararo currently sits ninth in the standings after eight rounds, with a best result of third in the United States Grand […]