Soon after his worst ever qualifying performance at the Spanish Grand Prix, Marc Marquez acknowledged his strategy for Saturday afternoon’s MotoGP Q2 shootout was the wrong one, but still goes into race day feeling ‘confident’ of his victory chances.
Shane Byrne has described his second free practice session at Oulton Park as “really, really frustrating” despite topping the times for Be Wiser Ducati.
Cal Crutchlow sees his first pole position in over a year as reward to his LCR Honda squad after struggling in qualifying in recent races as he eyes a second win of the 2018 MotoGP season.
The full race results for the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, round one of the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship season. FIA WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps - Race Results (bold denotes class-winning car)
Toyota Gazoo Racing stormed to a one-two finish in Saturday's 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps as Fernando Alonso made a winning start to life in the FIA World Endurance Championship, recording his first win for almost five years.
Johann Zarco concedes reaching the podium this weekend will be his primary focus for the Jerez MotoGP race as he sees big threats in the Honda riders.
Dani Pedrosa says keeping his rhythm and race pace on his Repsol Honda will be vital to his chances for victory at Jerez despite being out performed in qualifying by LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow.
Full free practice two results for the third round of the 2018 Bennetts British Superbike Championship (BSB) at Oulton Park. 1 . Shane Byrne GBR Be Wiser Ducati Panigale R 1m 34.868s 2. Josh Brookes AUS McAMS Yamaha YZF-R1 1m 34.983s
Full Jerez MotoGP qualifying results here Cal Crutchlow has stormed to his first MotoGP pole position since 2016 at Silverstone seeing of fellow Honda rider Dani Pedrosa at Jerez.
Full Qualifying results and grid line-up for the 2018 Spanish MotoGP at Jerez, round 4 of 19. Jerez has been resurfaced since the 2017 event. Kallio has his first wild-card appearance of the season.
The top two riders in Q1 now progress to the Q2 pole position shootout, where they will join the ten fastest riders after third practice. The others will start, in the following order, from 13th on the grid onwards…
1. Gary Paffett GBR Mercedes-AMG Motorsport PETRONAS 37 laps 2. Lucas Auer AUT SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG Motorsport +1.449s 3. Timo Glock GER BMW Team RMR +6.514s
Qualifying 1, for those outside the top ten after third free practice, will now get underway… Jerez has been resurfaced since the 2017 event. Kallio has his first wild-card appearance of the season. FP4:
Sebastian Vettel insists he is “not worried at all” about losing the Formula 1 2018 world championship lead to rival Lewis Hamilton at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Gary Paffett has kicked off Mercedes' final year in the DTM in euphoric fashion after claiming pole position for the Hockenheim season opener ahead of BMW's Marco Wittmann.