Just two days after the conclusion of the 2023 MotoGP season, the first official test of 2024 took place on 28 November.Ducati’s factory riders Bastianini and Francesco Bagnaia got a taste of their 2024 bikes for the first time in Valencia, having both missed the Misano test in September dueContinue Reading
Rins moved to LCR Honda in 2023 after Suzuki, with whom he raced from his debut season in 2017, elected to quit MotoGP at the end of last year.Despite winning Honda’s only grand prix in 2023 in Austin, Rins felt undervalued by the Japanese marque and decided to break aContinue Reading
It’s a little after 11am on Tuesday morning of 28 November at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo. The media mass is assembled outside of the Gresini Racing garage, and has been for well over an hour – hands frozen, faces beaten by a biting wind underneath a cold and overcast sky.Technically,Continue Reading
The 2020 world champion said Honda “needed a bit more help” after September’s Misano test, at which Marc Marquez admitted the team was “still far” from where it needed to be.But speaking after Tuesday’s test, Mir was visibly pleased with the progress made, and said the bike “seems to beContinue Reading
Tuesday’s outing in Valencia marked the true first test of the 2024 season, with Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales leading the way.After a lukewarm reception to its first 2024 prototype – and particularly the engine – at Misano in September, Quartararo ended Tuesday’s Valencia running 0.769s off the pace in 12th, albeitContinue Reading
The major story of the first official test ahead of the 2024 season was Marc Marquez’s debut on the Gresini Ducati.It marked the first time in his MotoGP career that he took to the track on a bike that wasn’t a Honda and generated a considerable amount of buzz onContinue Reading
The eight-time world champion made his MotoGP debut at the Valencia test in 2012 with the factory Honda team after stepping up from Moto2 as the title winner.He spent 11 seasons with Honda, winning 59 grands prix and six world titles in seven years between 2013 and 2019.Since badly breakingContinue Reading
Miller inherited the lead on lap 14 of 27 when KTM team-mate Brad Binder ran wide going through Turn 11 and dropped down to fourth.The Australian was able to open out a lead of over a second and was eight tenths clear of eventual winner and world champion Francesco BagnaiaContinue Reading
The 2023 MotoGP season came down to a dramatic finale at the Valencia Grand Prix, with Francesco Bagnaia emerging as world champion.The gap between Bagnaia and Jorge Martin was 21 points coming into the weekend, and only 14 by the start of the grand prix. But a crash for Martin endedContinue Reading
On Tuesday, eight-time world champion Marquez will make his first MotoGP appearance on a bike other than a Honda for the first time in the post-season Valencia test.Marquez will ride the 2023-spec Ducati that won the world championship this year in Gresini colours next season, after electing to leave HondaContinue Reading