WorldSBK rookie Iker Lecuona does not expect to replace Marc Marquez at next month’s official Sepang MotoGP test should the eight-time world champion be declared unfit.
Marc Marquez returns to two-wheel action for the first time in three months after doctors confirm a ‘clear improvement’ has been made to the six-time MotoGP champion’s condition.
Repsol Honda have confirmed progress has been made regarding Marc Marquez’ eye injury, therefore preparations for the 2022 MotoGP season can continue to take place.
It’s Dani Pedrosa, not Jorge Lorenzo or Valentino Rossi that two-time MotoGP champion Casey Stoner learnt the most from during his career; ‘I raced him my entire career. The way he was able to find speed would blow your mind’.
In today’s MotoGP gossip, Pol Espargaro believes team-mate Marc Marquez is still the best rider on the grid, while Casey Stoner wants to see technical changes to improve racing.
Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez will miss this weekend’s season finale in Valencia and Jerez test due to suffering from vision problems following his recent training accident.
New MotoGP World Champion Fabio Quartararo has dismissed any notion that he could swap to the #1 plate next season; ‘We will not see this number because I started with the #20 and I feel like I’m not number one’.
Although Pol Espargaro doesn’t ‘have the best of memories with Honda’ at Portimao, the Spaniard is confident of another good MotoGP result after making a breakthrough in recent rounds.
With Marc Marquez ruled out of this weekend’s Algarve MotoGP due to suffering a concussion in a training accident, Repsol Honda test rider Stefan Bradl will instead replace the eight-time world champion.
Pol Espargaro has described his first MotoGP podium with Repsol Honda as ‘a pain release’, following a big gamble to leave KTM for the Japanese manufacturer.
Following back-to-back MotoGP wins at COTA and Misano, Marc Marquez is within ten points of Johann Zarco for fourth in the championship, although the Repsol Honda rider is concentrating more on ‘riding my own championship’.
Marc Marquez picks up his first MotoGP win at a right-hand circuit since returning from injury - his third victory of the year after seeing Francesco Bagnaia directly crash in front of him.
With changeable conditions usually a major strength of his, day-one of the Emilia-Romagna MotoGP was a relatively subdued one for Marc Marquez who could only manage 14th.