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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…
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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…
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Mika Kallio out

Mika Kallio will be out for the rest of this weekend, and also from his planned wild card ride at the Austrian GP in four weeks, after his heavy…
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Marquez takes pole by just 0.025

The Repsol Honda rider even survived a couple of mistakes on his final laps to set a new pole record of 1.20.272, some six hundredths quicker than his own…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Lorenzo leads the pack on Friday Grand Prix Deutschland

Ducati bucked the odds at a track said not to favour the Italian ground-missiles, taking three of the top four places on the first day of free practice, with double…
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PEDROSA TRIBUTES

Repsol Honda team-mate Marc Marquez said: “Dani is one of the most important riders in MotoGP. I want to say thank you because he was one of my heroes…
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Dani Pedrosa confirms his retirement

The 32-year-old Spaniard thus brings an 18-year career to an end – all with Honda, and with at least one GP win every year since his first in…