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14 July 2018

Brad Binder re-signs with KTM

Former Moto3 champion Brad Binder’s Moto2 future with the Red Bull KTM team has been assured, with the South African signed up to stay with the team in 2019 for a third season in the middle class. Binder had a troubled start last year, carrying troublesome injuries after break

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14 July 2018

No crashes at Sachsenring turn 11 this year

Balmy conditions and a softer-than-previous right-hand compound on the all-asymmetric tyres required at the quirky Sachsenring shared the credit for the absence of the usual crashes at the daunting Turn 11. This fast right-hander, this year renamed in honour of the late former 2

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14 July 2018

Mika Kallio out

Mika Kallio out for the rest of this weekend

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14 July 2018

Marquez takes pole by just 0.025

Will Marc Marquez continue to be unbeatable at the Sachsenring? He managed it at the end of a hectic qualifying session, taking his ninth successive pole position at the German track.

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13 July 2018

Daniel ‘Chucky’ Sanders

Back home from Europe, and pinning it for success

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13 July 2018

Mika Kallio in hospital after crash

Wild card Mika Kallio was taken to hospital with a knee injury after a frightening crash in the early stages of FP2. The Finnish rider, full-time tester for KTM, was appearing in his third wild card outing of the year for the Austrian MotoGP squad. He ran into the gravel trap ou

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13 July 2018

German former MotoGP rider Stefan Bradl transition to first day of free practice

German former MotoGP rider Stefan Bradl made a popular transition from broadcasting booth to pit box halfway through the first day of free practice at the Sachsenring – and impressed by slotting into 21st place out of 25. Bradl, who finished fourth here in 2013, had started th

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13 July 2018

Suzuki could lose concessions 

After four dry-weather podium finishes split between their two riders Alex Rins and Andrea Iannone, Suzuki is on the brink of losing its concession-team privileges, should either finish in the top three again. A system totting up points – one each for three third places so far

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13 July 2018

Turn 11 named Waldmann Corner

The name of former German grand prix star Ralf Waldmann, who died unexpectedly of a heart attack in March at the age of 51, has been remembered at the Sachsenring, at the track’s finest feature. [caption id="attachment_31083" align="alignnone" width="900"] Waldmann tribute

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13 July 2018

Sachsenring track too tight for MotoGP?

Many riders have complained that the tiny Sachsenring track, squeezed into an industrial estate outside Chemnitz (formerly Karl Marx Stadt) in the former East Germany, is too tight for MotoGP. But threats that this might be the last time out at the compact venue left riders disa

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13 July 2018

Lorenzo leads the pack on Friday Grand Prix Deutschland

The number 99 heads the Friday timesheets, and on what's traditionally been Honda turf

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12 July 2018

PEDROSA TRIBUTES

Dani Pedrosa’s rivals old and new paid tribute to the retiring icon at the pre-race press conference at the Sachsenring, barely an hour after he had announced his retirement.