Jorge Martin announced himself as a true MotoGP title threat with a double victory at the German Grand Prix. The Pramac Ducati rider went without a grand prix victory since the 2021 Styrian GP, but finally took a full 25 points after beating Francesco Bagnaia in a thrilling scrap. A win in the sprint meant […]
The Spaniard raced in MotoGP full-time from 2006 to 2018 with Honda, winning 31 grands prix and finishing second in the championship on three occasions. Pedrosa retired from full-time competition at the end of the 2018 season and signed for KTM as an official test rider. He continually turned down wildcard opportunities until 2021, when […]
The Honda rider has endured a bruising weekend at the German GP, crashing five times so far – the latest of which in morning warm-up left him with a fracture in his hand. Marquez crashed in FP2 pushing for a lap time to get into Q2 and wiped out Pramac’s Johann Zarco as he exited […]
The 2023 MotoGP season has seen both of the series’ Japanese manufacturers struggle for form, with Yamaha scoring just one podium in seven rounds and Honda’s Americas GP win with Alex Rins proving to be a fluke result. This coincides with a shift in balance on the grid towards the European manufacturers over the last […]
Marquez withdrew from Sunday’s German Grand Prix after suffering his fifth crash of the weekend in the warm-up session. The crash left him with a small fracture on his thumb, though he was declared fit to race by the MotoGP medical team. Marquez missed three rounds through injury after a crash in Portugal, and has […]
Martin was a winner in his maiden season in MotoGP in 2021 and was expected to add to this in 2022 with the Pramac Ducati team. But the 2022-spec Ducati he was on wasn’t as competitive as the factory team version, which ran a slightly older engine owing to the latest version being too aggressive. […]
A sprint winner twice in 2023, including on Saturday at the Sachsenring, Martin hasn’t won a grand prix since the 2021 Styrian GP in his rookie season. But he ended that drought in brilliant fashion, resisting immense pressure from reigning world champion Bagnaia to beat him in a run to the line by just 0.064 […]
The eight-time world champion has endured a miserable weekend at the Sachsenring, a venue in which he has never been beaten at in the MotoGP class. Marquez crashed in FP2 pushing for a lap time to get into Q2 and wiped out Pramac’s Johann Zarco as he exited the pitlane. Both riders were unharmed, but […]
Martin took his first sprint win of the season at the French GP and added a second to his tally in Germany, taking the chequered flag 2.4 seconds clear. The Pramac Ducati rider took the lead on lap four with a daring double overtake and instantly opened a near-second gap to the chasing pack. It […]
The Honda rider endured a bruising Saturday at the Sachsenring having crashed three times in qualifying on his way to seventh on the grid. Briefly running fifth in the sprint, Marquez faded to 11th at the chequered flag to end a MotoGP contest of any kind at the Sachsenring without a win for the first […]