After seeing teammate Maverick Vinales take home the FP1 spoils, Aleix Espargaro fought back to claim top spot with the fastest overall time on day-one of the Argentine MotoGP.
Ott Tanak reckons the best is yet to come from M-Sport Ford’s Puma Rally1 car, especially when it comes to challenging for top honours on Tarmac rounds of the 2023 World Rally Championship.
Pol Espargaro may have suffered extensive injuries during his Friday practice accident at the Portimao MotoGP, but brother Aleix believes he was ‘very lucky’ it wasn’t worse.
The knock-on effect of Marc Marquez’s absence from this weekend’s Argentine MotoGP round is that Alex Rins will be able to use an updated Honda chassis.
While the saga of when, or if, Marc Marquez will serve his double long lap penalty from Portimao rumbles on, MotoGP riders hope there will be more clarity and consistency in future.
Paolo Simoncelli, father of the late Marco Simoncelli and team owner of the SIC58 Moto3 squad, has given his first impressions of the new MotoGP weekend format and Sprint race.
Marc Marquez’s roller-coaster weekend at the Portimao season-opener is among the topics on this week’s Crash.net MotoGP podcast with Keith Huewen.
Fabio Quartararo scored just 8 out of 37 points during MotoGP’s season-opener, at the same Portimao track where he won by over five-seconds in 2022.