TCR UK champion Chris Smiley has said he knows better than anyone how crucial it will be to score big points with Restart Racing at this weekend’s triple header around Knockhill Circuit in Scotland.
After talk that Ducati would block a change to the Friday MotoGP format until the start of next season, it has now been officially confirmed that opening practice will no longer count towards direct Q2 access.
Aleix Espargaro doesn’t want Aprilia to be sucked back into MotoGP technical Concessions but is also ‘not against’ the rumoured changes to help struggling manufacturers Honda and Yamaha.
While stressing that it didn’t happen overnight, Alberto Puig cites the Covid pandemic and Marc Marquez’s arm injuries as the main ‘coincidences’ behind Honda’s ‘downhill’ MotoGP fortunes.
Jaume Masia made his last run through the chicane a winning one as he made gains in the title hunt with Holgado in the gravel in the first lap of the Moto3 Dutch Grand Prix.
HRC test rider Stefan Bradl, called-up to replace the injured Alex Rins at this weekend’s Dutch MotoGP, ‘cannot give riding advice’ to eight-time world champion Marc Marquez.
After getting a first-hand view of Marc Marquez’s scary morning highside at the German MotoGP, Takaaki Nakagami’s top priority was simply to bring his Honda to the chequered flag.
Luca Marini has praised Ducati’s current MotoGP dominance as ‘impressive’, but also feels it’s been amplified by the Japanese manufacturers taking a step back.
Despite being passed fit to ride after a finger-fracturing fifth fall of the German MotoGP weekend in warm-up, Marc Marquez has elected to withdraw from this afternoon's race.
Marc Marquez insists he was not deliberately waiting for Francesco Bagnaia during qualifying for the Italian MotoGP and instead hoped to get a tow from Marco Bezzecchi.
Fellow Honda rider Alex Rins may have been third in Friday practice, but Marc Marquez claims he is only targeting between fifth and tenth place in this weekend's Italian MotoGP.
One Motorsport Honda's Josh Cook completed a practice clean sweap after topping the second British Touring Car Championship session ahead of defending champion Tom Ingram at Thruxton.