Styria MotoGP

Maverick Vinales' brake failure in the Styrian MotoGP race was down to 'an incorrect choice of brake specification despite Brembo's clear suggestions'.

An exclusive interview with Red Bull KTM Tech3 boss Herve Poncharal, whose team celebrated its first MotoGP victory - after 20 years of trying - when a stunning finish to the Styrian Grand Prix saw Miguel Oliveira overtake both Jack Miller and Pol Espargaro at the final corner…

Ever since MotoGP's TV graphics began broadcasting some live heart-rate data in 2019, Maverick Vinales has been significantly lower than the other riders.

KTM has made a big leap up the timesheets in MotoGP this season, already celebrating its first race wins and dry podiums during the five rounds so far.

With three MotoGP podiums - including two victories - already this season, plus a further rostrum at Valencia 2018, KTM has now sailed past the threshold of 6 Concession points.

Joan Mir may have been bitterly disappointed not to at least claim back-to-back MotoGP podiums in Austria, but after five races he's seen enough to know that the GSX-RR is 'a contender for the title'.

With just seven points from the opening five rounds, Cal Crutchlow had little reward for racing throughout his recovery from a fractured left wrist at the MotoGP season opener.

With four different winners from the opening five races, and reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez ruled out of contention, the 2020 title race looks wide open.

After the huge accident with Johann Zarco one week earlier, Franco Morbidelli admitted to being a bit cautious through the same flat-out Turn 2 kink during Sunday's Styrian MotoGP.

Starting just 20th on the initial grid, Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro gained places during both races starts on his way to twelfth place in Sunday's Styrian MotoGP.

Takaaki Nakagami felt he was not only on course for a debut MotoGP podium in Sunday's Styrian Grand Prix, but also possibly the race win.

Seeing the same riders on the podium each weekend isn't a complaint that can be levelled at the 2020 MotoGP season so far. Of the five races to date, no rider has stood on the rostrum more than twice.

"I was gutted for Mir because he was riding really strong. I tried to follow him for nine laps, but that was all I had. I was done. Unless he had tyre problems towards the end, he had that thing sorted."

Starting from pit lane, just a few days after surgery for a broken scaphoid bone in his right wrist, Johann Zarco surely never believed he'd be fighting with world championship leader Fabio Quartararo at the end of the Styrian MotoGP.

Fabio Quartararo is looking to Yamaha to fix a multitude of performance issues encountered in Sunday's Styrian MotoGP, after his MotoGP title lead was slashed to just three points.

Winner the previous weekend on the soft rear tyre, Andrea Dovizioso expected to be even stronger after switching to the medium for the start of Sunday's Styrian MotoGP.

The Styrian MotoGP delivered its third first-time race winner in five races with Miguel Oliveira taking the spoils... but who else shone in the Austrian hills?

Valentino Rossi left Austria having finished as the top Yamaha rider in both Red Bull Ring rounds of the 2020 MotoGP World Championship. But fifth and ninth places in a pair of restarted races were of little cause for celebration.

MotoGP rookie Brad Binder said he 'cannot think of anything more scary as a rider' than the kind of high-speed brake failure experienced by Maverick Vinales in Sunday's Styrian Grand Prix,

Valentino Rossi, Fabio Quartararo and Franco Morbidelli switched over to an evolution Brembo front braking system, after overheating problems at the opening Red Bull Ring MotoGP round.

Almost wiped out by the fallen bikes of Franco Morbidelli and Johann Zarco last Sunday, Maverick Vinales' traumatic Austrian adventure continued when he had to leap from his own machine at 230km/h as the brakes "exploded" in Sunday's Styrian MotoGP.

After 40-years involvement in motorcycle racing, Herve Poncharal's Tech3 team finally claimed a MotoGP victory in the most dramatic circumstances at the Red Bull Ring in Austria on Sunday.

Jack Miller battles beyond a painful shoulder to dice for victory at the Red Bull Ring for the second weekend in succession, even if he'd just miss out in the final moments

Miguel Oliveira rewards KTM for the faith it has shown in him over the years to secure a memorable last gasp victory at the Red Bull Ring for the Styrian MotoGP