MotoGP

MotoGP has cancelled the remaining flyaway races in Argentina, Thailand and Malaysia for 2020, but is set to add Portugal to the calendar as the 14th race. The original 2020 season was set to be the longest in MotoGP’s history, with 20 rounds beginning in Qatar and ending in Valencia, with stops off in the

KTM’s Brad Binder accepts that he is going to make “a hell of a lot more mistakes” in his rookie MotoGP campaign, after two promising but difficult Jerez races. The South African showed impressive pace across the Spanish and Andalusian Grand Prix weekends, lapping quicker than most of the podium contenders during both races. However,

KTM MotoGP rider Pol Espargaro says the Andalusian Grand Prix at Jerez was “the toughest race of my life”, having felt like the heat was “beating me” at one stage. Temperatures for Sunday’s second round of the 2020 campaign touched a miserable 40 degrees Celsius, with the 60 degree track temperature making circuit conditions tricky

Silverstone’s Stuart Pringle says he would be “very disappointed” if the venue lost MotoGP after 2021, as he believes “one of the best circuits on their calendar just got better”. Silverstone was the first home for grand prix motorcycle racing on the British mainland when the Isle of Man TT lost its world championship status

Petronas SRT boss Razlan Razali says Valentino Rossi’s podium in the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix removed “doubts” he had over the Italian for 2021 after his poor Spanish GP weekend. Nine-time grand prix world champion Rossi will join the satellite Yamaha squad with full factory support in 2021, though the deal is yet to be

Jack Miller is now taking his title tilt “race by race” again after a “nothing” crash in the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix a day after declaring himself a championship combatant. The Pramac Ducati rider said on Saturday at the second Jerez round that reigning world champion Marc Marquez’s absence through injury made him change his

Valentino Rossi has reacted to the “disaster” post-race for his VR46 Moto2 and Moto3 riders in the Andalusian Grand Prix, which included an embarrassing collision and a prosecco-related podium injury. Seven-time MotoGP world champion Rossi’s VR46 Academy enjoyed a strong Andalusian GP weekend, with Rossi’s half-brother Luca Marini and team-mate Marco Bezzecchi finishing second and

Fabio Quartararo’s Andalusian Grand Prix victory was partly made possible by a preparation technique Michelin advised all MotoGP teams to do, but only the Yamaha and Suzuki riders acted upon. Autosport has learned that MotoGP tyre supplier Michelin sent an email to all teams during the second round of the 2020 campaign recommending them to

Fabio Quartararo hammered the opposition in Sunday’s MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix at Jerez to take command in the championship. Leading the standings by 50 points, the Petronas SRT rider made the most of the absence of the injured Marc Marquez in the second of back-to-back races at Jerez to make the mountain the Honda rider

Alex Marquez says Honda is giving him “the confidence a rookie needs” as he continues his adaptation in MotoGP with the reigning world championship-winning team. Reigning Moto2 champion Marquez rose from 21st in qualifying following a crash to end the second Jerez race in eighth spot, just 19 seconds from the victory, which represents an

Francesco Bagnaia says his strong Andalusian Grand Prix weekend has made him feel like a “fully-fledged MotoGP rider”, after a technical issue cost him a maiden podium. The Pramac rider was top Ducati runner in qualifying after securing his first front row start in third, and found himself in second spot after passing the struggling

Tech3 rider Miguel Oliveira says he “disagrees” with factory KTM counterpart Brad Binder’s version of events which led to their Turn 1 crash at the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix. Oliveira qualified a career-best fifth and as top KTM rider for the second race at Jerez, but a burning clutch meant he got a poor launch

Andalusian Grand Prix podium finisher Valentino Rossi admits his “not real” Spanish GP weekend made him “worried” about his decision to continue in MotoGP in 2021. Though pen is yet to be put to paper, nine-times grand prix world champion Rossi will join Petronas SRT Yamaha in place of factory team-bound Fabio Quartararo next season.

Enea Bastianini dominated the Andalusian Grand Prix to claim his first Moto2 victory, while a hobbled Tetsuta Nagashima recovered to 11th to hold his championship lead. Debut Moto2 poleman Marco Bezzecchi nailed the launch off the line and held the lead at Turn 1 ahead of Bastianini and last week’s Jerez race winner Luca Marini.

Andrea Dovizioso says he doesn’t want to “copy” what the Pramac Ducati riders are doing with the GP20, despite Francesco Bagnaia qualifying third for the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix. Dovizioso failed to make it out of the first part of qualifying for the first time since the 2019 German GP, and will start Sunday’s second

Pramac Ducati’s Jack Miller believes Marc Marquez’s injury and withdrawal from the Andalusian Grand Prix means he is now a contender for this year’s MotoGP title. Reigning world champion Marquez pulled out of the remainder of the second weekend of the MotoGP season having experience a loss of energy in the broken right arm he

Maverick Vinales blitzed the Jerez lap record to lead MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix FP3, as Marc Marquez made his return just four days after surgery on a broken arm. Reigning world champion Marquez crashed heavily in last week’s Spanish GP and was set to miss this weekend’s second Jerez race following surgery on Tuesday. However,

Suzuki’s Alex Rins admits Friday at the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix was a “painful day” for him, as he put miles on his recently dislocated and fractured right shoulder. Rins crashed in qualifying for the Spanish GP at Jerez last week and had to miss the race owing to his injury, but was declared fit

Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi says he feels “stronger than last week” after completing the opening day of practice for the Andalusian Grand Prix at Jerez second-fastest. Rossi endured a difficult start to the 2020 campaign at the Spanish track last weekend as he qualified 11th and retired after a dashboard alarm on his works

Maverick Vinales led a factory Yamaha 1-2 by 0.142 seconds from Valentino Rossi in first practice for the inaugural MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix at Jerez. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, MotoGP’s revised 2020 calendar features several rounds run on the same circuit, with the first Andalusian GP taking place at Jerez just a week after

Brad Binder learned in his debut MotoGP race last weekend at Jerez that premier class riders aren’t the “superheroes” they seem and now believes he “deserves to be here”. KTM rider Binder finished his debut race 13th, though displayed podium pace after running off track in the early stages out of the top 10 and

Jack Miller says claims that a MotoGP title win against an injured Marc Marquez would be illegitimate are a “complete crock” as all riders “have the opportunity to get injured”. Reigning world champion Marquez broke his right arm in a heavy crash in last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix and had been set to miss this

Yamaha sent engines used by Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales at the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix back to Japan for inspection following reliability concerns. Yamaha began the delayed 2020 season in perfect fashion, securing a 1-2 in the Jerez race courtesy of Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo and works team rider Vinales. However, the Spanish GP

Alex Marquez says being the only Repsol Honda MotoGP rider in this weekend’s Andalusian Grand Prix in the absence of his injured brother “changes nothing” for him. The reigning Moto2 champion will be the sole representative in Honda’s works outfit in the second Jerez race with Marc Marquez forced out after breaking his arm in

Marc Marquez is exploring the option to return to MotoGP action this weekend despite undergoing surgery on Tuesday after breaking his right arm in a violent Spanish Grand Prix crash. In last weekend’s MotoGP season opener Marquez was recovering from an early off-track moment before violently crashing and breaking his right humerus, which was impacted

Cal Crutchlow and Alex Rins will both attempt to return to MotoGP action in this weekend’s Andalusian Grand Prix, after missing the Jerez season opener due to injuries. LCR Honda man Crutchlow was taken to Barcelona to undergo surgery on the right scaphoid he fractured in a crash at Turn 8 during morning warm-up last

Reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has undergone a successful operation on the right arm he broke in a violent Spanish Grand Prix crash on Sunday. The Honda rider was recovering from an earlier off at Jerez when he was flung from his machine at the Turn 3 left-hander on lap 22, with Marquez landing

Valentino Rossi admits his low-key MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix weekend was down to him being unable to “make the tyres work properly” on his Yamaha. Rossi qualified almost a second off the pace of Yamaha stablemate Fabio Quartararo at Jerez in 10th, and was circulating 14s adrift of the Petronas SRT rider in the race

Jack Miller says he lost a potential podium finish in the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix because of “numbness” he suffered in his hand in the second half of the race. Miller, who will step up to a factory Ducati ride next season, spent the first 19 laps of the 25-lap Jerez race inside the top

Having waited four months for the 2020 MotoGP season to start, the action continues at a frantic pace with the second round of the Jerez double-header, the Andalucia Grand Prix. In a drastically reshuffled campaign, Jerez will host the first-ever Andalucia GP, which acts as the second part of the back to back races at