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.
An angry Pol Espargaro chose not to blame Brad Binder for his early retirement at the Misano MotoGP, instead taking aim at Honda’s current level of performance.
Dorna signs Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of bringing MotoGP to Saudi Arabia on a ‘newly constructed, multi-purpose FIM and FIA homologated circuit’.
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.
Ducati will order their army of riders not to engage in “super-aggressive attacks” against each other in a ploy to help Francesco Bagnaia to the MotoGP 2022 championship, says Paolo Ciabatti.
Crash.net journalist Robert Jones runs through the field’s rider ratings following an enthralling Misano MotoGP that saw Francesco Bagnaia pip future team-mate Enea Bastianini in a photo-finish.
Francesco Bagnaia becomes the first-ever Ducati rider to win four consecutive MotoGP races after getting the better of Enea Bastianini in an epic Misano Grand Prix.
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.
While Ducati’s incredible dominance in qualifying continued at Misano as Jack Miller claimed an 11th pole in 14 races for the Italian manufacturer this season, the Australian’s top time in Q2 was just the second pole of his MotoGP career.
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.