Marc Marquez completed a sprint simulation on the final day of MotoGP testing at Sepang, sending out a clear message to his rivals with his incredible pace.Riding the factory Ducati during the afternoon on Friday, Marquez averaged a time of 1m57.930 over a 10-lap run, comfortably outpacing the entire field,Continue Reading
VR46 says Fabio Di Giannantonio doesn’t need to apologise for performing a wheelie despite getting injured on the opening day of MotoGP testing at Sepang.Di Giannantonio got to try out the new Ducati GP25 for the first time on Wednesday, having missed November’s test at Barcelona to complete his post-injuryContinue Reading
Fabio Quartararo believes Yamaha’s MotoGP squad delivered a bigger step in performance over the winter break than it did in the five previous seasons combined.Quartararo has been lapping among the quickest riders in the field since the first official MotoGP pre-season test began at Sepang on Wednesday.While initially this speedContinue Reading
Michelin’s MotoGP chief Piero Taramasso says Jorge Martin’s crash at the start of the Sepang test was due to a 15C drop in the inside temperature of the rear tyre.On the opening day of pre-season testing in Malaysia, reigning MotoGP champion Martin was thrown off his Aprilia at Turn 2Continue Reading
Michelin’s MotoGP chief Piero Taramasso says Jorge Martin’s crash at the start of the Sepang test was due to a 15C drop in the inside temperature of the rear tyre.On the opening day of pre-season testing in Malaysia, reigning MotoGP champion Martin was thrown off his Aprilia at Turn 2Continue Reading
Francesco Bagnaia says he is only 50 per cent sure about Ducati’s 2025 MotoGP engine due to the negative impact it has had on braking performance.Two-time MotoGP champion Bagnaia has been trialling a new motor developed by Ducati during this week’s Sepang test, but his initial reaction so far hasContinue Reading
VR46’s new recruit Franco Morbidelli set the pace on the second day of the Sepang MotoGP test, leading Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo.Riding last year’s Ducati GP24, Morbidelli posted a best time of 1m57.210s just an hour into the day’s running to climb to the top spot in the rankings.His lap was threeContinue Reading
Jorge Martin will miss the remainder of the Sepang MotoGP test after suffering multiple fractures in a crash on the opening day of the running.The reigning MotoGP champion was making only his second appearance aboard the factory Aprilia RS-GP when he suffered a highside at Turn 2 shortly before middayContinue Reading
Fabio Quartararo set the quickest time on the opening day of the Sepang MotoGP test, while Jorge Martin suffered a huge crash on the Aprilia and was taken to hospital.Yamaha’s Quartararo had already laid the benchmark in last week’s shakedown at the same venue, and his recent knowledge of theContinue Reading
Japanese culture is marked by tradition, and this is perfectly palpable in MotoGP, where Yamaha and Honda have resisted as much as they could before surrendering to the cruellest evidence and concluding that their methods, infallible until just over five years ago, have become completely obsolete. Neither of them managedContinue Reading