Having ended 2020 as championship runner-up on the Petronas SRT Yamaha, Morbidelli’s time in MotoGP has grown immensely difficult. INSIGHT: Yamaha’s once leading light fighting for his MotoGP future Since switching to the factory Yamaha squad midway through 2021, Morbidelli has scored a best of fourth – which came in 2023 in Argentina in the […]
The 2021 world champion has scored just one podium from the opening five rounds of the 2023 campaign and is currently 45 points off the championship lead. Yamaha threw a lot of development parts to its M1 over the winter, which ended up making matters worse for Quartararo throughout testing. This forced him to go […]
I wouldn’t say there are any rude riders in the MotoGP paddock. But there are definitely those who treat media duties as part of the job description. Franco Morbidelli is always the opposite. As he rocks up to the Yamaha hospitality at Le Mans, Morbidelli is keen to chat about life and his time off […]
The Tech3 rider had hoped to return to racing this weekend at the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, but is still suffering from an edema around his vertebrae that needs treatment. The Spaniard was thrown from his GASGAS-branded KTM in the latter stages of FP2 at the season-opener in Portugal and hit an unprotected barrier. […]
Miller signed a two-year factory deal with KTM when Ducati elected to move him out of its works team set-up in favour of Enea Bastianini. The Australian was offered a chance to remain at Ducati, but only on a one-year deal at Pramac. Miller, who was runner-up in the 2014 Moto3 world championship with KTM, […]
At the French Grand Prix last month, over 278,000 spectators attended the extraordinary Le Mans. Moreover, it confirmed Ducati’s dominance in the world of two-wheeled racing. France, where Ducati achieved five podiums out of six possible and two victories with Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi, was also the launch pad for the brand’s first electrified […]
The 2020 championship runner-up has endured a torrid spell in MotoGP since the 2021 season when he lost most of the campaign to a knee injury while also stepping up to the factory Yamaha squad midway through the year. His form failed to improve in 2022 as Yamaha started to slip behind its rivals, with […]
With the addition of sprint races in 2023, after five rounds there have already been 10 races completed, with three different riders winning the sprints and the grands prix. Heading into next weekend’s Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, Francesco Bagnaia’s points lead over Marco Bezzecchi stands at just one as the reigning champion has suffered […]
One-time grand prix winner Martin made his MotoGP debut with Ducati as a Pramac rider in 2021 and won the Styrian GP in his rookie year. Martin was locked in a battle with Enea Bastianini last season for a place at the factory Ducati squad but was beaten to the seat by the four-time race […]
The 2020 world champion switched to the factory Honda squad for this season after Suzuki quit the series at the end of last year. Mir is the fifth different rider in six years to partner Marc Marquez at Honda, following Dani Pedrosa in 2018, Lorenzo in 2019, Alex Marquez in 2020 and Espargaro in 2021/2022. […]