A Ducati photo finish at Misano, a three-way title fight and KTM dropping Remy Gardner after just a single season are all on the agenda for this week’s Crash.net MotoGP podcast featuring Keith Huewen.
World champion Fabio Quartararo was left to ponder a frustrating fifth in Sunday’s Misano MotoGP after ‘reaching the limit’ of his M1, while Francesco Bagnaia replaced Aleix Espargaro as his nearest title rival.
Marc Marquez’s healing right arm is at ‘an acceptable level’ to make a MotoGP return at Misano on Tuesday. But with the bone previously 34 degrees out of line, for a year and half, there is still ‘a long way to go’ in terms of rehabilitation.
Aleix Espargaro will start the Misano MotoGP just behind title leader Fabio Quartararo, but with the pair only eighth and ninth on the grid it was of no consolation.
Having lost 47 points to Francesco Bagnaia over the last three rounds, Fabio Quartararo needs to take as much benefit as possible from the Italian’s Misano grid penalty.