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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
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
Mika Kallio out
Mika Kallio out for the rest of this weekend
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.
Daniel ‘Chucky’ Sanders
Back home from Europe, and pinning it for success
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
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
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
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
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
Lorenzo leads the pack on Friday Grand Prix Deutschland
The number 99 heads the Friday timesheets, and on what's traditionally been Honda turf
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.