Yamaha’s 2023 season has been disappointing, with the Japanese marque bottom of the manufacturers’ table having scored just one grand prix podium and one sprint rostrum courtesy of 2021 world champion Quartararo. The Frenchman has complained numerous times this season that everything Yamaha tried with the new bike in the winter never worked, with Quartararo […]
The grid was cut down by two at the end of last year when Suzuki elected to quit MotoGP, citing financial reasons for its decision to withdraw one year into a new contract with the championship. In recent weeks, there have been rumours about the possibility of KTM expanding its presence to six bikes for […]
Concessions were introduced in 2014 in a bid to help balance the field and provide a greater competitive platform for prospective manufacturers, which helped bring Suzuki, Aprilia and KTM to the grid between 2015 and 2017. Those who ran under concessions received a number of benefits over non-concession manufacturers, who at the time were Honda […]
As MotoGP enters its six-week summer break, Honda is looking to solve its MotoGP crisis with three of its riders out injured and a bike which is at the back of the field alongside fellow Japanese manufacturer strugglers Yamaha. To make matters worse, during the triple-header in June, Honda lost Joan Mir and Alex Rins […]
The principle that when things go wrong they can always go worse suits Honda like a glove. It has hit rock bottom in the last two weeks. Neither Marc Marquez, Alex Rins nor Joan Mir, their three most competitive riders, took part in the last two stops of the calendar, at Sachsenring and Assen, as […]
The Aprilia rider proved correct with his assessment of Binder’s mistake at Turn 8 on the last lap, with confirmation of the South African’s one-place demotion coming moments after the chequered flag. While that meant that KTM rider Binder had managed to lose a podium finish twice on the same weekend, after also being demoted […]
The Spaniard was declared unfit to ride in the eighth round of the season on Sunday morning due to a rib fracture sustained over the course of a bruising German Grand Prix last weekend. Marquez crashed five times across the Sachsenring round, with his final fall in warm-up leading to a small hand fracture and […]
Francesco Bagnaia extended his MotoGP world championship lead with victory in the Dutch Grand Prix and in the process halted a clean sweep by Marco Bezzecchi, who topped every practice session, grabbed pole and won the sprint race. That all shook out to see the reigning world champion take a 35-point lead over Jorge Martin […]
Puig made the comments shortly after the team announced that Marquez will not take part in today’s Dutch GP as a result of the injuries picked up in a spate of crashes last time out in Germany. Marquez did contest yesterday’s sprint race at Assen, which he started and finished 17th following an accident with […]
The South African rider crossed the line in third place in both the sprint and grand prix races, but was demoted by officials on both occasions. After multiple infractions in the Saturday race, he received a three-second time penalty in lieu of a long-lap penalty he couldn’t take due to the late notice. This dropped […]