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Maverick Vinales continued where he left off at Assen (2019) as he topped both Friday Dutch MotoGP practice sessions.

Free Practice (2) results from the Dutch MotoGP at Assen, round 9 of the 2021 world championship.

Fabio Quartararo felt he was ‘too careful’ in wet conditions at the Dutch MotoGP on opening day - weather that is expected to be around for the remainder of this weekend.

Valentino Rossi’s P18 finish on day-one of the Dutch MotoGP is not a true representation of his Yamaha M1’ potential according to the Italian; ‘I was a bit unlucky in the afternoon. I take a lot of yellow flags, also on the last lap I was fast but it starts to rain.”

Miguel Oliveira enjoys a strong start to the Dutch MotoGP as he claims third position on combined times, even though it was ‘not the smoothest one because of the poor session we had in FP1.”

2019 Assen MotoGP winner Maverick Vinales finishes FP1 quickest from Pol Espargaro and Suzuki rider Alex Rins.

Free Practice (1) results from the Dutch MotoGP at Assen, round 9 of the 2021 world championship.

Johann Zarco’s best Assen MotoGP finish of eighth is one he hopes to improve upon, as ‘it will be necessary for the championship’ before a five week summer break.

Maverick Vinales 'very upset' at last place MotoGP finish in Germany and lack of answers from Yamaha, will 'copy everything' team-mate Fabio Quartararo does to his bike at Assen.

Following the confirmation of Valentino Rossi’s new Aramco VR46 MotoGP team and Ducati joining forces for the 2022 season, the Italian says ‘I think it will be very difficult that I race next year’ in my own team. 

WorldSBK championship leader and current favorite for a seventh consecutive title Jonathan Rea, completes shortened test at the new Navarra track; ‘Difficult circuit to go fast at, has a lot of intricacies and challenges’.

Fabio Quartararo heads to ‘one of my favourite circuits’ being Assen, after describing third place in Germany as ‘a bad weekend’. Maverick Vinales returns to the Dutch TT as the last rider to win there in 2019.

Francesco Bagnaia ‘pleased to be back racing at Assen’, where he won in both Moto2 and Moto3. Italian is 32 points behind championship leader Fabio Quartararo following fifth place at the German MotoGP.

Valentino Rossi’ 14th place finish at the MotoGP of Germany leaves him 19th in the championship heading into Assen - scene of his last premier class win (2017).

Franco Morbidelli has been forced to withdraw from this weekend's Dutch MotoGP.

WorldSBK Misano race two winner Toprak Razgatlioglu continued his stunning form of 2021 by topping the two-day Navarra test.

Valentino Rossi ties with Maverick Vinales for the fastest Yamaha lap in the German MotoGP, but both are left a long way behind podium finisher Fabio Quartararo.

Maverick Vinales left 'collecting data' during his worst ever MotoGP race result, a last place at Sachsenring.

Fabio Quartararo extends championship lead with German MotoGP third place finish; believes victory was a long shot during warm-up, ‘was quite clear this morning that we have a good pace, but to fight for the victory it’s difficult.”

Warm-up results from the German MotoGP at Sachsenring, round 8 of the 2021 world championship.

Aleix Espargaro secures his first MotoGP front row start since 2015, and first for Aprilia during qualifying for the German GP.

MotoGP championship leader Fabio Quartararo qualifies second for tomorrow’s German GP, but says all four Yamaha riders are ‘struggling a little bit’.

Free Practice (3) results from the German MotoGP at Sachsenring, round 8 of the 2021 world championship.

Maverick Vinales believes the key to a successful German MotoGP is securing an all-important front row start in tomorrow’s qualifying; ‘We MUST qualify on the front row. This is the real objective of the weekend’.