Alex Marquez scored a commanding victory in MotoGP’s Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday, while Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia endured a late-race heartbreak while running in third position.Having secured runner-up spot in the championship on Saturday, Marquez passed polesitter Bagnaia early on and then disappeared into the distance, proving why he wasContinue Reading
Luca Marini suffered his first crash of the 2025 MotoGP season in the Malaysian Grand Prix sprint because he was “too clean” trying to overtake, according to KTM’s Pol Espargaro.Marini and Espargaro were battling for eighth position when they came to blows on lap 7, with Marini falling off hisContinue Reading
Francesco Bagnaia says his latest resurgence in a period of dramatic peaks and troughs in MotoGP carries more weight than his dominant weekend in Japan last month.While he saw Japan as an outlier result, Saturday’s pole and sprint win in Malaysia was at least consistent with incremental progress made overContinue Reading
Factory KTM rider Pedro Acosta has been hit with a fine of €2000 for breaching MotoGP’s new restart rule that was introduced ahead of this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix.Acosta crashed the RC16 at Turn 1 with about 2m45s left on the clock in Q2, before remounting and going on toContinue Reading
Crashing twice doesn’t stop you from being the fastest of the day and winning in other tracks doesn’t guarantee you a direct Q2 spot! SourceContinue Reading
After a season in which he has operated mostly in the shadow of his brother Marc, Alex Marquez delivered his most forthright comments of the year after sealing a historic 1-2 in the world championship for the Marquez family.Among other revelations, he opened up about his nerves during Saturday’s sprintContinue Reading
Francesco Bagnaia returned to winning ways on Saturday at the MotoGP Malaysian Grand Prix, with a dominant sprint victory the latest in his series of wild form swings over the past few weeks.The factory Ducati rider led from start to finish, with Alex Marquez securing second place in the worldContinue Reading
Francesco Bagnaia came through Q1 to score a surprise pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix on Saturday, as Aprilia endured a difficult day at Sepang.Opting for a single run midway through the session to preserve a set of soft tyres, the factory Ducati rider made the most of aContinue Reading
Honda’s leading three MotoGP riders were all glowing with praise for the RC213V following the first day’s action at the Malaysian Grand Prix on Friday.After a form dip in Australia last weekend, the Japanese marque rediscovered its recent upward trajectory in Practice at Sepang, with LCR’s Johann Zarco second-fastest andContinue Reading
Yamaha’s second wildcard outing with its new V4-powered MotoGP bike offered little fresh insight at the Malaysian Grand Prix on Friday, as the manufacturer opted to run the bike in a conservative “safe mode”.Yamaha’s 2026 prototype returned to action for the first time since last month’s Misano test, with AugustoContinue Reading