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Fabio Quartararo MotoGP polesitter

It was a smashing afternoon at Jerez. Not only were lap records pulverised, but also preconceptions … as the two satellite Yamaha rider (one of them a rookie) seized control…
MotoGP

More Aero Packages

After the failure of the four-factory protests following Ducati’s use of a swing-arm “tyre-cooling” attachment at the opening round in Qatar, there is now almost a full house of the…
MotoGP

Honda Questions

Mystery surrounds … part 94. As ever with Honda, only hints and persiflage were forthcoming to questions about the factory team’s double non-finish at the last round in Texas, and…
MotoGP

Dani Pedrosa Corner

Goodbye Dry Sack, hello Dani Pedrosa Corner. The hairpin at the end of the back straight at Jerez was rechristened on race eve in honour of the recently retired former…
MotoGP

SPANISH GP – DAY ONE FREE PRACTICE WRAP

Perfect weather and a resurfaced track saw fast times but no new records on the first day of practice for Sunday’s Spanish GP … and a surprise name at the…
Opinion

Rossi is 40

What are you going to do on your 40th birthday? Or, given motorcycling’s ever-ageing demographic, what did you do? A bit of gentle sky-diving/white-water rafting, perhaps? Set off on a…
MotoGP

KTM carbon-fibre scoop

The swing-arm spoiler took another turn on Saturday, with KTM fitting a carbon-fibre scoop visually similar to that used the day before by Honda, as the companies that had joined…
MotoGP

FP3 sessions were cancelled at Austin

Bad weather and cautious local regulations meant that after a morning of waiting all Saturday morning FP3 sessions were cancelled at Austin. Although a biblical deluge had abated by the…
MotoGP

Straight talking Jack Miller

Straight-talking Australian Jack Miller raised a laugh at the pre-race press conference when asked what had made the difference, after his very strong start to the year. “It’s the big…
MotoGP

CotA Bumpiness

Bumps, bumps and more bumps – interspersed with low grip – were the talk of track at CotA, with riders universally bemoaning that the fantastic layout was spoiled by a…
MotoGP

Riders Views on Crutchlow Argentina Jump-Start Penalty

While jump-start victim Cal Crutchlow insisted he had “moved on” from the ride-through penalty that robbed him of a podium finish in Argentina, rival riders were torn between approval of…
MotoGP

Repsol Honda with a copy of Ducati’s controversial swing-arm scoop

Back at the dawn of their invasion of the motorcycle industry, the Japanese mantra was “copy, but improve”. Honda have clearly not forgotten the value of this. On the first…