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Moto2: Marc VDS hoping to keep Alex Marquez in 2020
Marc VDS team manager Joan Olive is hoping title leader Alex Marquez will remain with the team in Moto2 for 2020.
Ricciardo: MotoGP riders won’t like Silverstone resurfacing
Daniel Ricciado says MotoGP riders “are going to kick up a fuss” over sections of the Silverstone resurfacing as he feels the track surface remains bumpy.
Quartararo: I’ve still not had a big fight against Marquez, Rossi
MotoGP’s standout rookie Fabio Quartararo feels the next key stage of his progression in the premier class is “to have a big fight with people like Marquez and Rossi” as he reflects on his stunning start in 2019.
Binder more than deserves KTM MotoGP ride – Poncharal
Red Bull KTM Tech3 team manager Herve Poncharal has described adding Brad Binder alongside Miguel Oliveira as his own ‘dream team’ for the 2020 MotoGP world championship.
Puig: Marquez, Honda will forget points advantage in Brno
Repsol Honda team manager Alberto Puig feels Marc Marquez’s 58-point lead won’t be counted within the team once the MotoGP season restarts after the summer break.
Binder to replace Syahrin at Red Bull KTM Tech3 for 2020
Brad Binder will make his MotoGP debut in 2020 joining former team-mate Miguel Oliveira at Red Bull KTM Tech3 with Hafizh Syahrin axed from the team.
Moto2: Pasini in, Corsi out at Tasca Racing
Mattia Pasini will complete the remainder of the 2019 Moto2 world championship with Tasca Racing after replacing Simone Corsi.
Honda confirms Brno as Lorenzo MotoGP comeback target
Repsol Honda team manager Alberto Puig has confirmed Jorge Lorenzo is aiming to return from injury at the first round after MotoGP’s summer break at Brno.
German MotoGP: Points for Rabat as 2020 rumours grow
Tito Rabat claimed his second-best finish of the season with eleventh place in the German MotoGP at Sachsenring. But it may already be too late to keep his seat at the Reale Avintia team, which openly admits to seeking a 'young kid' from Moto2 to push the team forwards in 2020.
German MotoGP: 'Pleased' Aleix Espargaro goes down fighting
Aleix Espargaro may have crashed out of the German MotoGP, but the Aprilia rider was at least happy to go down fighting after a return to competitive form at the Sachsenring. Starting 15th, the Spaniard soon latched on to a big group of riders disputing what would become fourth place.
German MotoGP: Oliveira, Tech3 'sad' as best of season slips away
MotoGP rookie Miguel Oliveira had the pace to claim his and the Tech3 team's best result of the season so far, in the German Grand Prix. But despite setting the fastest lap of any KTM rider, Oliveira would fail to score a single point.
German MotoGP: Pol Espargaro: I was doing dirt track
Pol Espargaro struggled with a massive loss of rear-tyre grip on his way to a disappointing twelfth place finish for KTM at the German MotoGP.
German MotoGP: Rossi loses 20-seconds in a season, seeks answers
Valentino Rossi finished a MotoGP race for the first time since Le Mans in mid-May. That was the good news. The bad news was that the glimmer of hope after 'feeling good and being fast' on his Yamaha at Assen, before crashing out, evaporated at the Sachsenring.
German MotoGP: Bradl 'enjoys every moment' of Repsol Honda debut
Sunday's German MotoGP marked Stefan Bradl's second race appearance of the season, but first ever in Repsol Honda colours.
German MotoGP: Morbidelli 'in survival mode'
Once again, the difficulties faced by mentor Valentino Rossi seemed to be replicated for Petronas Yamaha's Franco Morbidelli, in Sunday's German MotoGP.
German MotoGP: Mir: Difficult to fight the Ducatis
After just eight points from his opening five MotoGP races, all from an eighth place in Qatar, Joan Mir heads for the summer break having pulled in 31 points from the past four rounds.
German MotoGP: Miller takes a gamble, 'main goal' achieved
Jack Miller took 'a bit of gamble' by fitting the soft rear tyre for Sunday's German MotoGP and, while it 'didn't really work out', the Australian moved to the top of the Independent standings heading into the summer break.
German MotoGP: Petrucci: Ducati on the limit, we need something more
With the factory Ducati trio covered by just 0.259s at the end of the German MotoGP, Danilo Petrucci feels the evidence is clear that they had reached the limit of the bike.
Rins ‘a few kph faster, then…’
Alex Rins held up his hands, admitting a small mistake led to his dramatic departure from the German Grand Prix, and has focussed his attention on securing more race wins and second in the MotoGP championship in the season’s second half.
Dovizioso: Ducati needs a strategy for the future
Andrea Dovizioso has provided a damning verdict on Ducati’s current struggles and has urged factory engineers to finally address the “DNA of the bike” that led to another tough MotoGP race weekend in Germany.
Marquez: Vinales, Quartararo will be fastest rivals for rest of 2019
Marc Marquez feels he has breathing space in the MotoGP world championship fight after pulling out a 58-point advantage over nearest rival Andrea Dovizioso, while he sees Yamaha duo Maverick Vinales and Fabio Quartararo as “the guys to beat at the moment”.
From tibia break to German MotoGP podium for Crutchlow
Cal Cruthclow has joked “maybe I’ll get injured before every race” as he charged to the podium at the German MotoGP despite suffering a tibia fracture just days earlier.
German MotoGP: 'Don't hesitate' – Quartararo's first race mistake
It had to happen sometime. After just one fall as a MotoGP rider, during practice in Barcelona, rookie star Fabio Quartararo made his first race mistake at round nine in Germany.
Vinales takes “maximum” second with Marquez “impossible” to catch
Maverick Vinales feels his Monster Yamaha squad can be satisfied with second place at the German MotoGP after conceding it was “impossible” to overtake Marc Marquez before he stormed clear at the front.