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Espargaro made a solid start to his fifth season as an Aprilia rider in the Qatar double-header, qualifying inside the top 10 for both races and scoring seventh and 10th-place finishes. This is in stark contrast to team-mate Lorenzo Savadori, whose lack of MotoGP experience has meant he qualified last for both races and achieved

MotoGP signed a three-year deal to host a race in Indonesia back in 2019, with the inaugural event at the purpose-built street track on the island of Lombok expected to be in 2021 before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. The circuit did appear on a draft 2021 calendar as a reserve circuit, but was removed following

Rossi registered his worst qualifying result in his entire 25-year grand prix career in last weekend’s Doha round in Qatar, having limped to 21st aboard his Petronas SRT Yamaha. He failed to salvage much in the race, the 42-year-old coming away from the second round of the season without points in 16th having also faded

The six-time champion has been out of action since he broke his right arm in last year’s delayed season opener at Jerez in July. A failed attempt to return for the following week’s Andalucian GP compounded his injury, and resulted in a lengthier spell on the sidelines.  Marquez has undergone three operations since then, the

MotoGP announced on Friday morning that the world championship is set to stage the return of the Indonesian Grand Prix in 2022 at the Mandalika Street Circuit. The track is part of a $3 billion tourism project on the island of Lombok, which includes hotels and a golf course. MotoGP is eyeing hosting a test

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 season began with back-to-back races at the Losail International Circuit, where Ducati had won on MotoGP’s previous Qatar visits in 2019 and 2018. Having topped pre-season testing outright with new factory signing Jack Miller, while it stormed to pole in both the Qatar and Doha GPs with factory

Bastianini emerged from the Qatar GP as top rookie in 10th on his two-year-old Ducati and put in another impressive display in last Sunday’s Doha race. The Avintia rider came from 19th on the grid to finish 11th, and was in the group fighting for seventh headed by Suzuki’s Joan Mir covered by 0.662 seconds.

Rossi endured a bruising brace of races at Losail to start the season, the nine-time grand prix world champion emerging from the Qatar Grand Prix 12th having qualified fourth – and came away from the Doha round without points in 16th having registered his worst ever qualifying result of 21st. This came on a backdrop

Zarco and Morbidelli collided at 200mph through the Turn 2 kink at the Austrian venue in the first of two Red Bull Races last year, with their errant motorcycles narrowly missing Yamaha duo Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales up at Turn 3. ANALYSIS: The difficulties in making the Red Bull Ring safer for MotoGP Zarco

Vinales backed up his Qatar GP victory with a fifth-place finish in the Doha race having had to recover from 11th in the opening stages due to a poor start. He had similarly strong pace to that of race-winning team-mate Fabio Quartararo as he carved through the pack, but a mistake fighting with Pramac’s Jorge

The Yamaha rider stormed to victory in last Sunday’s Doha GP in Qatar ahead of Pramac’s Zarco, securing the first ever French 1-2 in the modern MotoGP era and the first in the premier class of grand prix racing since the 1954 French GP at Reims – when Pierre Monnerret won on a Gilera and

Bagnaia made a shocking start from sixth on the grid after his holeshot device didn’t work, dropping down to 11th by the end of the first lap of last Sunday’s second Qatar outing. He was able to charge forward again back into the podium places by lap 13, but ran wide at the first corner

The Frenchman was worried about the overtaking potential of the 2021 Yamaha after pre-season testing, but carved his way through from ninth after the early laps to claim victory by 1.4 seconds and end a podium drought dating back to last September’s Catalan GP. Quartararo headed an historic French 1-2 in Doha, with Pramac’s Johann

Miller ended last weekend’s second round of the 2021 season in ninth after suffering from arm pump in the closing stages of the race. He admitted after the race he was evaluating having surgery on his arm, with Ducati confirming Miller went under the knife in Barcelona at the Dexeus University Hospital, with the operation

All four KTM riders ran the medium front tyre in last Sunday’s Doha GP, having wrecked the soft option in the Qatar GP the week before. Binder said pre-Doha weekend that the tyre choice dealt KTM a “hard blow”, because the soft was too soft for the RC16, while its preferred hard option didn’t work

Zarco was signed to KTM from Tech3 in 2019 in a move that was expected to see him fight for race wins and the title with the Austrian marque. But he endured a miserable part-campaign with the marque, terminating his two-year contract following the Austrian GP before KTM dropped him with immediate effect following the

Espargaro endured another tough qualifying in the second Qatar outing which left him down in 15th for the start, though he was able to make his way to the lead group having had pace good enough to fight for victory. But the Honda rider made “two huge mistakes” in the closing stages when he ran

Rins proved to be an early threat for the victory as he worked his way up from seventh on the grid to the podium places by the third lap, before engaging with Pramac’s Johann Zarco over second. Zarco was able to use the brute power of the Ducati to keep Rins at bay, with the

Both Quartararo and factory Yamaha team-mate Maverick Vinales were swallowed up off the line, with the Frenchman working his way up from ninth on the opening lap to claim his first victory since last September’s Catalan GP. Martin replicated his monster start from the Qatar GP, seizing the lead ahead of Pramac team-mate Johann Zarco

Quartararo was left in ninth at the end of the opening laps having been swamped from fifth on the grid. But the Yamaha rider carved his way through the pack and by lap 19 had taken over from long-time leader Jorge Martin on the Pramac Ducati, from which point Quartararo sped off to the fourth

Morbidelli had endured a tricky week in Qatar, after a holeshot device issue meant he finished the first round of 2021 without points in 18th, while on Friday he was forced to unseal a third engine from his allocation following several issues in FP1. Even without his issues in the first Qatar race, Morbidelli hasn’t

The Moto2 graduate set the early pace in Saturday’s pole shootout session, before stunning everyone with his final effort of 1m53.106s to claim his first MotoGP pole in only his second start. Martin is the first rookie rider to score a pole position since Fabio Quartararo in 2019, and heads Ducati’s first 1-2 since Aragon

Quartararo was trailing Miller in the closing stages of Q2 on Saturday evening when the Ducati rider had a massive moment at Turn 3 that wasn’t caught on the TV cameras. The Yamaha rider says it was much more aggressive than the big moment Miller had during FP2 on Friday, but the Australian still managed

The wind had picked up considerably for the start of FP3, with a lot of dust being blown onto the Losail circuit which guaranteed there would be no combined time improvements. Tech3 KTM rider Iker Lecuona set the early pace in the session with a 1m58.073s, before Quartararo moved ahead on his Yamaha with a

Rossi took aim at Binder on Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Doha GP, after the South African nudged the Petronas SRT rider slightly wide at Turn 1 late on in last week’s Qatar race. Binder came in for criticism as Rossi talked about how some of the grid – including the KTM rider – don’t

After a disappointing showing in the Qatar GP, Jack Miller has replicated his place in the second practice times from seven days ago by going fastest on Friday, leading a Ducati 1-2-3 ahead of factory team-mate Francesco Bagnaia and Pramac’s Johann Zarco. Fabio Quartararo was the closest contender against the Ducati domination with fourth place

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the Argentine and US GPs to be postponed, MotoGP remains in Qatar for a second week for the first ever Doha GP. Morbidelli’s Qatar GP last Sunday was wrecked by a technical issue that he admitted on Thursday hasn’t fully been diagnosed by Petronas SRT and Yamaha. He set the

The Petronas SRT rider was nudged slightly wide by Binder in the latter stages of last Sunday’s 2021 season-opener at Turn 1 – though Rossi ended up two spots ahead of the KTM in 12th at the chequered flag. The incident required no intervention from Race Direction, while Binder doesn’t believe there was any contact.

The LCR rider struggled for form on the RC213V in his rookie season in 2020, only cracking the top 12 on the grid twice across the campaign. The Honda is typically a difficult bike to extract the maximum from during a time attack, but Marquez feels he has made a step forward in this area

The Italian was tagged as one of the favourites to fight for victory in last Sunday’s season-opener, but plummeted from seventh on the grid to 18th come the chequered flag. Sources close to the team confirmed to Autosport that Morbidelli’s issue stemmed from a faulty holeshot device. Morbidelli confirmed on Thursday ahead of the second