Having just solved the issue of replacement rider for the outgoing Jonas Folger with the signing of Malaysian rider Hafizh Syahrin for 2018 season, comes the news that Yamaha and Tech 3 have announced that 2018 will be their last season as partners in the FIM MotoGP™ World Championship, after 20 mutually successful years. Yamaha…
The Repsol Honda Team unveiled their 2018 livery during the squad’s official presentation, which took place today at the Jakarta International Expo, with Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa. The reigning MotoGP World Champion and his teammate had just completed a successful test in Thailand before flying to Indonesia with Team Manager Alberto Puig and Tetsuhiro…
It was LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow who was fastest on Day 1, followed by Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez on Day 2 and teammate Dani Pedrosa on Day 3 to make it three days in a row on top for Honda at the 2018 MotoGP Winter Thai Test. Pedrosa is quickest overall with a 1:29.781, with…
Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez celebrated his 25th birthday in style at Day 2 of the MotoGP Winter Thai Thai in Buriram, leaving it late to set the first ever sub-1:30 lap time of the Chang International Circuit on Lap 91 of a mammoth 90+ lap workload for the six-time World Champion. That took the top…
Marc Marquez perfectly mastered today’s very tricky wet conditions at Misano, taking his fourth win of the season and the 59th in his career, putting him back at the top of the Championship standings, equal on points with Andrea Dovizioso (with Marquez ahead by virtue of more second-place finishes). Marc started well from the front…
Ducati Corse’s Andrea Dovizioso timed his pace just right by overtaking Yamaha Factory Racing’s Valentino Rossi with 3 laps remaining, and maintained his lead just right to win the 2017 Octo British Grand Prix at Silverstone today. Dovi also successfully hold off Rossi’s teammate Maverick Viñales at the last 2 corners of the final lap to…
Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez took a record-breaking pole position for tomorrow’s British Grand Prix with a 1’59.941” lap, an astonishing performance that made him the only rider in MotoGP history to lap under the two-minute barrier at the Silverstone track. Marc’s fourth pole in a row and his sixth this season also extended his all-time…
Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa scored the third consecutive double podium finish and the sixth of the season out of 11 races, in one of the most exciting races this year and in front of more than 90,000 thrilled spectators at the Red Bull Ring Circuit. After an epic battle with Ducati Corse’s …
Marc Marquez took a back-to-back victory at Brno today in challenging mixed conditions, his third this year and the 58th in his career, extending his championship lead to 14 points over his closest follower. It was the fifth flag-to-flag race that Marc has perfectly mastered thanks to a mix of tactics, determination, and teamwork (Assen…
Marc Marquez took his second win of 2017 and his eighth in a row at the Sachsenring after starting from pole position, with teammate Dani Pedrosa joining him on the podium to complete the fourth double-podium finish (Austin, Jerez, Catalunya, Sachsenring) for Repsol Honda in nine races. Marquez and Pedrosa got away from the front…
Reigning MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez denied Danilo Petrucci his maiden pole position at the Sachsenring this afternoon, beating the Italian by a tenth of a second to bag his eighth successive top qualifying spot at the German track. Petrucci, who signed a new deal with Pramac this morning, came through qualifying one with a…
Andrea Dovizioso has taken an incredible second win of the season in the Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya, making him the first Ducati rider to take back-to-back wins for the Borgo Panigale factory since two-time MotoGP World Champion Casey Stoner achieved the feat in 2010. Reigning Champion Marc Marquez left a spate of crashes…