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Pol Espargaro and KTM will start the European leg of the MotoGP season having more than doubled their previous best points haul from the opening three rounds.

This year's MotoGP title fight will be different to the Marc Marquez vs Andrea Dovizioso duel that has developed during the past two seasons.

Hot on the heels of a controversial jump-start penalty for Cal Crutchlow in Argentina, Maverick Vinales and Joan Mir suffered the same fate in Sunday's COTA race.

Valentino Rossi came within 0.462s of claiming what would have been his 90th MotoGP victory at COTA on Sunday. The Italian was handed the lead when Marc Marquez made his shock mistake on lap 9 and remained in front until four laps to go.

Marc Marquez's hopes of extending his unbeaten COTA MotoGP run to seven in a row came crashing down when the world champion made a shock mistake while holding a comfortable lead in Sunday's race.

Alex Rins became MotoGP's newest winner courtesy of a tense victory over Valentino Rossi in Austin, Texas.

Jack Miller returned to the MotoGP podium for the first time since his wet 2016 Assen victory, courtesy of third place in Sunday's Austin round at COTA. The result marked the Australian's debut rostrum for Pramac Ducati and first in the dry since Valencia 2014 in the Moto3 class.

Rins takes his first ever MotoGP victory after overtaking and then narrowly holding off Rossi in the Austin MotoGP, marking Suzuki's first win since 2016.

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Tom Luthi battled to the front then went on to dominate the Moto2 Americas Grand Prix in Austin.

Race results from the 2019 Americas Moto2 Grand Prix, round 3 of 19.

Aron Canet found his way to the front of a huge final lap tussle for position to win the Moto3 Americas Grand Prix in Austin.

Race results from the 2019 Americas Moto3 Grand Prix, round 3 of 19.

Marquez quickest during a dry and sunny warm-up session for the Austin MotoGP, despite a scare (see video below). The Repsol Honda, who has qualified on pole, has taken victory on all six of MotoGP's previous visits to COTA.

Warm-up results from the 2019 Americas Moto2 Grand Prix, round 3 of 19.

Warm-up results from the 2019 Americas Moto3 Grand Prix, round 3 of 19.

A storm-shortened day at COTA ended with Valentino Rossi claiming his best qualifying position in America since Laguna Seca back in 2009.

Marc Marquez remains on course to extend his perfect Austin MotoGP victory record to seven in a row, after claiming a seventh successive pole position at COTA on Saturday.

Marcel Schrotter survived a flurry of late fast laps to sit on pole ahead of the Moto2 Grand Prix of the Americas at COTA.

Qualifying results from the 2019 Americas Moto2 Grand Prix, round 3 of 19.

Marquez takes another pole position for the Austin MotoGP at COTA, with Rossi and Crutchlow completing the front row. Lorenzo, fastest in Qualifying 1, was forced to park his Honda after the chain jumped off the sprocket, just as happened to team-mate Marquez in Argentina.

The top two riders in Q1 - Lorenzo and Petrucci - now progress to the Q2 pole position shootout, where they will join the ten fastest riders after third practice. The others - including Dovizioso - will start, in the following order, from 13th on the grid onwards.

With FP3 cancelled due to lightning, FP4 was the first session of the day and first wet action of the season. However, improving conditions meant riders began switching to slicks with ten minutes remaining, when the best lap times were set - and Marquez broke clear of the field.

Niccolo Antonelli secured pole as he mastered the changing track conditions after earlier downpours to claim his first pole of the season ahead of the Austin Moto3 Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas.