Not only is Ducati’s reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia confident of avoiding last year’s slow start to the new MotoGP season, but he’s also not afraid of any wet weather.
The 2020 MotoGP season has been full of surprises, with six different race winners, four of them standing on the top step for the first time this season.
Cal Crutchlow and Jack Miller have had more than their fair share of MotoGP success in the rain, but both are dreading the prospect of riding in heavy rain at the Red Bull Ring.
The World Superbike Championship’s battle against the elements showed no sign of abating after the first day of its in-season test was hampered by rain.
Characteristics specific to the undulating Imola circuit and not just the heavy rain were a big factor in the decision to cancel the second World Superbike Championship race, Chaz Davies has revealed.
Alvaro Bautista is adamant Race Direction were correct in cancelling the second World Superbike Championship race at Imola, saying the conditions were ‘dangerous.
The third and final World Superbike Championship race of the weekend at Imola has been officially cancelled after poor weather conditions prompted a series of disagreements over whether to get the encounter underway.
Aside from a handful of installation laps, there has been no track action on the opening morning of the latest in-season F1 test as heavy rain engulfed the Red Bull Ring.
Sebastian Vettel underlined his reputation as Formula One's brightest rising star, and an heir apparent as regenmeister to countryman Michael Schumacher, after skating to a second grand prix victory at the head of a Red Bull Racing 1-2 in China.
Formula 1's renaissance man Jenson Button has made it two from two in the second round of the 2009 world championship, after rising above the chaos and confusion with a flawless drive to triumph in the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang - as the weather did its worst to add yet more uncertainty to wh
Lewis Hamilton may not have won the Italian Grand Prix to make it a hat-trick of wet race victories in this season's Formula One world championship, but has shown himself to be the man to beat in adverse conditions prior to Monza.
Just one corner separated Cal Crutchlow from a better starting position for the latest round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship after the title hopeful blamed his fifth place grid slot on the final corner.
This morning's first session was held on a drying track, but the weather took a turn for the worse this afternoon - with rain pouring down throughout the second hour.
The wet weather that tormented the 125 and 250cc teams at Jerez earlier this week continued during the first day of the final MotoGP pre-season test at the Spanish track.