RNF’s Raul Fernandez was eager to get his hands on the mysterious start 'system' used by the factory Aprilia MotoGP team of Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales, but it has now been 'banned'.
After losing out on the holeshot to Francesco Bagnaia in both Red Bull Ring races, Brad Binder was certain Ducati has developed something new for their MotoGP race starts.
Yamaha looks set to debut a holeshot start device at next month's Sepang MotoGP test. Ducati has run a special starting system, which lowers the rear of the bike, since Motegi 2018, with Aprilia then fitting a more conventional motocross-style front fork system at Brno last August.
A factory Ducati rider twisting a switch on the dashboard and dropping the rear of the bike before the start of a MotoGP race is now a common sight. The 'holeshot device' was spotted at the Sepang test in January, but Jack Miller later revealed he'd first used it at Motegi last October.
Practice for the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix gets underway tomorrow (Friday), but if MotoGP riders have anything to do with it the scheduled time of Sunday's race will still be changed.
"Jorge all the year complained about me, complained that I might [injure another] rider. And here [at Valencia] he had some movements even stronger"- Marc Marquez.
Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa responds in style after Aragon controversy to earn his third victory of the season in Malaysia as Marc Marquez takes another step towards MotoGP crown
German Grand Prix winner Mark Webber has jokingly suggested that his drive-thru' penalty for contact with Rubens Barrichello may have been used to make the race more interesting, such was the apparent dominance of his Red Bull car.
A visibly deflated Rubens Barrichello was left pondering why things always seem to go wrong on his side of the Brawn GP garage after posting the ex-Honda F1 outfit's first retirement of the 2009 campaign in the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul at the weekend, on a day when Ross Brawn contended the