Marc Marquez restarted his 2023 MotoGP season by returning to ‘exactly’ the same spec bike he had used back at March’s Portimao opener, during Friday practice for the British Grand Prix.
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.
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.
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.
It ended in disaster, but Marc Marquez’s charge through the MotoGP field at Jerez 2020 remains one of the most impressive things Herve Poncharal has witnessed in grand prix racing, "I couldn’t believe my eyes".
As Honda seeks to drag itself back on terms with the European MotoGP manufacturers, star rider Marc Marquez insists he won’t try and interfere on the engineering side of the project.
Paolo Simoncelli has taken aim at Marc Marquez’s detractors during the latest edition of his blog, hailing the six-time MotoGP champion’s performance on his return from injury.
Marc Marquez may only have scored five points on his return to MotoGP action at Le Mans, but the Spaniard rebuilt his confidence by battling at the front: “I feel fast. I can overtake, and I can fight.”
Marc Marquez made a typically action-packed return to MotoGP at Le Mans on Friday: Debuting on the Kalex chassis, falling twice and being the only Honda to secure direct access to Qualifying 2.
Marc Marquez insists it was an ‘easy decision’ to withdraw from this weekend’s home Spanish MotoGP after three different medical teams spelt out the risk to his healing hand of riding at Jerez.
Ongoing uncertainty over if or when Marc Marquez will serve his double long lap penalty was among the topics in this week’s Crash.net MotoGP podcast featuring Keith Huewen.