Mick Doohan 'totally devastated' that MotoGP race winner Jack Miller and Moto2 title leader Remy Gardner won't get to race in front of their home fans at Phillip Island in 2021.
Formula 1 chief Ross Brawn has confirmed holding races behind closed doors is a genuine option with provisional plans being weighed up, while he’s still confident of a 19-race 2020 season if action starts in July.
WorldSBK Phillip Island - Race Results (1) Toprak Razgatlioglu secured victory on his Pata Yamaha debut as he prevailed in a thrilling opening encounter for the 2020 WorldSBK C
Scott Redding maintained his grip on proceedings ahead of the first Superpole for the 2020 WorldSBK Championship season at Phillip Island as he topped FP3.
Free practice 3 results from Phillip Island, the first round of the 2020 World Superbike championship. Jordi Torres (Mie Althea Honda) and Leandro Mercado (Motocorsa Racing Ducati) join the WorldSBK grid from the third round at Jerez.
The World Superbike championship has started a charity auction to raise funds for the Australian bushfire crisis ahead of Phillip Island hosting the 2020 season-opener.
'You would not believe it before the start, huh?!' smiled Andrea Iannone, after making history for Aprilia by putting the RS-GP into the MotoGP race lead at Phillip Island on Sunday.
Overshadowed by Fabio Quartararo for much of the season, fellow rookies Francesco Bagnaia and Joan Mir claimed their best MotoGP results so far at Phillip Island on Sunday.
This (below) is the huge highside that took both Danilo Petrucci and Fabio Quartararo out of Sunday's Australian MotoGP. The pair were among several riders to lose the rear on entry to Turn 2 at the start of the Phillip Island race.
Maverick Vinales insisted he had no regrets after risking everything to try and pass Marc Marquez for victory on the final lap of the Australian MotoGP, only to crash out with a few corners to go.
It's a packed day of action at Phillip Island with MotoGP warm-up being followed by the rescheduled qualifying sessions and then this afternoon's race. Meanwhile, the world championship could be decided in both the Moto3 and Moto2 classes. For live updates:
Vinales continues his strong weekend with pole position for this afternoon's Australian MotoGP, during a rescheduled qualifying at Phillip Island. Q1 and Q2 were cancelled on Saturday due to strong winds and moved to Sunday morning.
The top two riders in MotoGP Qualifying 1 now progress to the Q2 pole position shootout, where they will join the ten fastest riders after third practice. The others will start this afternoon's race, in the following order, from 13th on the grid onwards.
Vinales leads a dry but chilly morning warm-up for the Australian MotoGP at Phillip Island. The Yamaha rider went fastest on a hard rear, then even quicker on a soft. Aprilia's Espargaro was his closest rival after a tow from Marquez.