On Monday evening, it was announced that Martin will leave the Ducati fold after four seasons and move to Aprilia in 2025, replacing the retiring Aleix Espargaro on a multi-year deal.It followed a series of events over the past week at Mugello, as the Spaniard went from being selected forContinue Reading
Between the Barcelona and Mugello races, Ducati informed Jorge Martin that he was the chosen one to be Francesco Bagnaia’s team-mate in 2025 in the official Ducati team.On the eve of the Italian Grand Prix, a senior factory executive welcomed the rider and they shook hands, thanking the championship leaderContinue Reading
Bastianini put in an impressive performance in front of his home crowd at Mugello on Sunday, making two key overtakes in a race that featured little action to complete a 1-2 result for Ducati.The 26-year-old first cleared the Gresini bike of Marc Marquez with two laps to go going intoContinue Reading
The Mugello race featured a limited number of position changes at the front after the opening lap, as the field circulated in formation behind race leader Francesco Bagnaia on a hot and sunny day in Italy.With three laps to go it appeared that the race had finally come alive, withContinue Reading
Bagnaia – who was demoted from second to fifth due to a grid penalty – claimed the lead at Turn 2 on the opening lap and never looked back, taking the chequered flag by 0.8s over team-mate Bastianini, as championship leader Jorge Martin had to settle for third. At theContinue Reading
Championship leader Martin retired from Saturday’s sprint at Mugello while running third, losing the front-end of his GP24 into the first corner with four laps remaining.But even before his race-ending crash, the Spaniard was losing touch with eventual sprint winner Francesco Bagnaia and second-placed Marc Marquez, both on Ducati machinery,Continue Reading
Quartararo was unlucky to retire from Saturday’s sprint race at Mugello on lap two of 11 when Miguel Oliveira crashed his Trackhouse Aprilia in front of him at Turn 10 following a failed attempt to overtake the Frenchman, leaving the former with nowhere to go.The 2021 champion went down withContinue Reading
At the start of the 11-lap race, the factory Ducatis shot to the front from polesitter Martin, with reigning champion Bagnaia taking the lead from team-mate Enea Bastianini.KTM’s Brad Binder jumped from 14th on the grid to take fourth behind Martin, with Marc Marquez dropping a place to fifth.Heading intoContinue Reading
Martin, who leads the championship by 39 points coming into the Mugello round, scored his third pole of the year with a new lap record of 1m44.504s set on his first flying lap.The Spaniard, who looks set to step up to the factory Ducati team in 2025, beat reigning championContinue Reading
Marc and Alex Marquez’s Gresini team has joined forces with MotoGP Guru and SPORTPASS to launch the world’s first fan-powered sponsorship programme. The new programme enables fans to purchase a team “micro-sponsorship package” for as little as €125 and tap into the benefits historically reserved to corporate sponsors and VIPs.TheContinue Reading