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Johan Zarco first French rider to take pole at his home GP since 1988
Johan Zarco became the first French rider to take pole at his home GP since Christian Sarron in 1988, with a fully abandoned lap where the usually super-smooth Yamaha rider twice lost the rear in just a few yards. His time of 1’31.185 was a new outright track record, and put
Dovizioso tops the first-day time-sheets at Le Mans on Friday
Ducati lead Honda and Yamaha on the opening day in Le Mans, with Rossi in P3
Crutchlow, Pedrosa and Zarco on the front row
Cal Crutchlow snatched the booty in the heart of his Spanish rivals’ homeland, taking his first pole position since 2016 for tomorrow’s Spanish GP at Jerez.
Marc Marquez takes the win at the Americas GP
Marquez wins but five riders leave Austin within eight points at the top of the standings - and it's 'DesmoDovi' in P1
Miller: We are risking our lives here
Dangerous riding was set to be the major topic at Friday evening’s Rider’s Safety Commission, with feelings running high among past and present victims of Marquez, as well as some askance glances at Zarco, who has also earned a reputation for his merciless attacking style.
Iannone fastest at Circuit of the Americas
Andrea Iannone pulled out a last-minute surprise, the Ecstar Suzuki rider sneaked ahead of the dominant Marc Marquez by less than six hundredths of a second to set fastest time on a slow day at the Circuit of the Americas. With bad weather confidently forecast for tomorrow
Cal Crutchlow wins Argentine GP
Independent Team rider Crutchlow back on the top step after a stunner, with huge drama for Marquez and Rossi
Jack Miller takes pole in qualifying
Jack produces a stunning lap on slicks to beat Pedrosa
In Pit Lane - More questions than answers
The World Championships turn 70 this year; the series is pretty spry for a septuagenarian. MotoGP’s exuberance is a measure of its success: the growing pains of the last decade and the ghastly proddie-based CRT bikes now all but forgotten. It is once again paradoxically youthfu
QATAR GP DAY TWO WRAP
A ten-year-old record, set on soft qualifying tyres, went flying in an explosive first qualifying session of the year, with three riders inside the time, and two of them not even in factory teams.
QATAR GP – FIRST DAY WRAP
Ducatis took to the top of the time sheets after the first day of free practice for the 2018 MotoGP season at Qatar – but the margins were comfortingly small for fans hoping for a year of close racing, and results pleasingly mixed. Dovi was top dog, with Danilo Petrucci’s
QATAR MOTOGP TEST – DAY TWO WRAP
Six riders bust below 1’55 as times dropped in the second of three days of tests at Qatar today, with Ecstar Suzuki rider Andrea Iannone coming through to top the time sheets in a final flurry that also saw Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda) putting in a flier to move up from tenth to