Tag: MotoGP

20 Feb 2024

Honda MotoGP boss Puig “surprised” by German-like feedback from Marini

Marini was picked to replace Marc Marquez following the eight-time grand prix world champion’s decision to quit the team for 2024 to join the Gresini Ducati squad. The Italian previously spent three years on Ducati machinery, latterly with his brother Valentino Rossi’s squad, with whom he scored his first podiums in MotoGP. Marini and team-mate […]

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19 Feb 2024

Bagnaia beats Ducati Martin to top opening day times

Following three days of running in Malaysia earlier this month, the MotoGP pre-season ends in Qatar just two weeks before the 2024 campaign begins at the same venue. After a fairly slow start to the day for most as track conditions proved suboptimal, more representative running was had as the sun set over the Losail […]

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19 Feb 2024

Michelin tweaks controversial MotoGP tyre pressure rule for 2024

Due to safety fears about teams running underneath recommended tyre pressures, MotoGP began to enforce new minimum front and rear limits from last year’s British Grand Prix. For much of the year building up to the British GP, riders voiced their concerns about the new front minimum of 1.88 bar of pressure. They felt this […]

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18 Feb 2024

Aprilia reveals its 2024 MotoGP livery

The Italian manufacturer is entering its 10th season since its return to the premier class in 2015, when it joined the grid in partnership with Gresini Racing. From 2022, Aprilia was entered as a standalone factory team after Gresini elected to link up with Ducati. That year marked a breakthrough for Aprilia, who scored its […]

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18 Feb 2024

Piero Ferrari hinted to Quartararo about Hamilton F1 signing

Ferrari dropped a bombshell on the motorsport world earlier this month when it announced that it had signed seven-time F1 champion Hamilton for 2025. It will bring to an end a fruitful 11-year partnership with the Mercedes F1 team, whom Hamilton joined from McLaren at the end of 2012 and won six of his seven […]

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16 Feb 2024

Mir ‘starting to see results’ of Honda’s new MotoGP approach

Once the top dog in MotoGP, Honda has slowly plummeted down the pecking order, ending the last two seasons last in the manufacturers’ standings. Marc Marquez, the rider with which it built its current empire in MotoGP, broke his contract with HRC at the end of last year to switch to a satellite Ducati, while […]

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16 Feb 2024

Marquez can fight for MotoGP victories from start of season

Six-time world champion Marquez will ride a Gresini-run Ducati from 2023 this year, having left Honda after 11 years with the Japanese manufacturer. Marquez was one of the biggest attractions during the first pre-season test at Sepang, where he finished with the sixth quickest time of the three days of running. The Spaniard was hindered by some… Continue […]

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15 Feb 2024

LCR launches MotoGP 2024 bikes ahead of Qatar test

As has been the case in previous years, LCR has gone for a split approach with its MotoGP liveries in 2024, with one of its two satellite Honda R213Vs sporting the colours of Castrol and the other bike carrying the backing of Japanese petroleum company Idemitsu. LCR revealed the first of its two bikes carrying […]

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