Full Qualifying results and grid line-up for the Saturday Sprint and main Sunday race at the German MotoGP at Sachsenring, round 7 of 20 in the 2023 world championship.
Takaaki Nakagami escaped fractures in his massive Friday practice accident at the German MotoGP but remains concerned about the condition of his right hand.
A dramatic Friday afternoon practice for the German MotoGP saw Marc Marquez save a massive scare at the fearsome waterfall corner then crash at turn 1, wiping out Johann Zarco.
What a difference a year makes. Fabio Quartararo returns to the scene of his most recent MotoGP victory, in Germany’s Sachsenring, saying that his ‘main goal’ is just to be inside the top ten during Friday practice.
Aprilia team-mates Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales both featured in the Sachsenring podium battle, but were blighted by very different technical issues in Sunday’s German MotoGP.
Fabio Quartararo ‘best’ victory, another Francesco Bagnaia fall, Johann Zarco top Ducati, a bittersweet race for Aprilia and Honda’s Sachsenring woes all feature on this week’s Crash.net MotoGP podcast featuring Keith Huewen.
Francesco Bagnaia’s MotoGP title hopes suffered a potential knock-out blow with an ‘impossible to understand’ accident, behind race leader Fabio Quartararo, at the Sachsenring.