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Miller came into the 2021 season pegged as a title favourite, but currently sits 47 points off the championship lead down in 12th having amassed just 14 points from the first three rounds. The Ducati rider crashed out of last weekend’s Portimao race in the early stages chasing down Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro, having made a

The rookie crashed at Turn 7 in the latter stages of Saturday’s FP3 session at the Algarve track, the Spaniard needing to be stretchered off track and taken to hospital for checks. Martin was found to have suffered fractures to his right hand and ankle and was ruled out of the rest of the Portimao

The nine-time grand prix world champion qualified a lowly 17th at the Algarve track and admitted he was “worried” about his pace having failed to make any step forward from his difficult Doha GP weekend. However, Rossi managed to take a step forward with bike set-up to improve braking and acceleration for the race and

Martin crashed heavily in the latter stages of FP3 last Saturday and suffered multiple fractures, with the Pramac rookie taken to hospital in Faro and ruled out of the Portuguese GP weekend. The Spaniard was transferred to hospital in Barcelona on Monday for surgery, though an operation on a fractured right hand and ankle had

Over the next 40 years Suzuki won six premier class titles with Barry Sheene (1976-1977), Marco Lucchinelli (1981), Franco Uncini (1982), Kevin Schwantz (1993) and Kenny Roberts Jr. (2000). Suzuki withdrew from the premier class at the end of the 2011 season due to financial reasons, before staging a full-time factory return in 2015. Becoming

After a nine-month injury layoff, six-time world champion Marc Marquez returned to action in Portugal last weekend and finished a heroic seventh, having qualified sixth. During the race the Marquez brothers ran close to each other for the first time in MotoGP, with Marc leading Alex by several seconds in seventh spot all the way

The erstwhile championship leader led the early stages of Sunday’s Algarve race, before falling behind race winner Fabio Quartararo on the Yamaha and Suzuki’s Alex Rins. Zarco was promoted to second when Rins crashed on lap 19, but the Frenchman would suffer the same fate a tour later. He admits he initially thought he had

The six-time MotoGP world champion qualified sixth and finished seventh in his first race since suffering the right arm break in last year’s Spanish GP that would require three operations and rule him out of the 2020 season. Marquez broke down in tears when he returned to his Honda garage after the race, admitting he

Rins led the race in the early stages before eventual winner Fabio Quartararo came past at Turn 1 on the ninth of 25 laps. The pair ran line astern for the next 10 tours, lapping almost identically as they broke away from the chasing pack. But Rins’ hopes of a fourth MotoGP victory were dashed

After a nine-month injury layoff, the six-time MotoGP world champion made his long-awaited return to action at the Algarve Circuit last weekend. Qualifying sixth and going on to finish a very respectable seventh, Marquez broke down in tears when he returned to his Honda garage after the chequered flag as his successful return put the

Nine months since he suffered the arm break that would rule him out of the 2020 season, six-time MotoGP world champion Marquez made his return to action at Portimao this weekend. After qualifying sixth, Marquez ran as high as third on the opening lap, before eventually being shuffled back to ninth as he tried to

Quartararo stormed to his second-successive race win in 2021 by 4.8 seconds at the Algarve International Circuit to open up a 15-point lead in the championship after three rounds. Quartararo made a similarly strong start to his 2020 campaign, but was a lowly 14th at the Algarve track last season after the Portuguese venue proved

Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia posted a record-smashing lap time to initially claim pole in Saturday’s Q2 session at the Algarve circuit. However, his pole time was stripped from him after he was deemed to have set it while travelling through a yellow flag zone at the Craig Jones corner where KTM’s Miguel Oliveira had crashed. Bagnaia

The six-time MotoGP world champion hasn’t started a grand prix since last July’s season-opener at Jerez, and hasn’t seen a chequered flag since he won the 2019 Valencia GP. Coming through Q1 – courting some controversy from Joan Mir over his tactics – Marquez went on to qualify on the back of the second row

Bagnaia went four tenths clear of the field with his final Q2 lap of 1m38.494s, which smashed the existing Algarve International Circuit lap record and would have secured him his second pole in three rounds. However, Bagnaia – who took his first MotoGP pole at the 2021 season-opening Qatar GP – set this lap having

Martin came off his Ducati at the Turn 7 right-hander while he was on an out lap in the closing stages of this morning’s practice. Though it’s still unclear how the crash happened, Martin was heavily knocked around when he hit the gravel trap and required medical assistance. The session was red-flagged while medics attended

Quartararo ended Friday’s running at the Algarve International Circuit second overall, 0.340 seconds off Francesco Bagnaia’s FP2-topping lap on the Ducati. The Portimao venue was one of the weakest tracks for the 2020 Yamaha factory riders, but Quartararo attributes much of his struggles last year – when he slumped to 14th in the race, which

In Marquez’s absence in 2020 through injury, Mir and Suzuki ended his domination of the world championship – though Mir had the legitimacy of his title repeatedly questioned because he won it without Marquez present. These were claims both riders dismissed. Marquez returned to action after a nine-month layoff on Friday at the Algarve International

Veteran MotoGP team boss Gresini sadly died in February following a two-month battle with COVID-19. The Italian – who was 125cc motorcycle grand prix world champion in 1985 and 1987 – was a highly respected figure in the world of motorsport, with MotoGP observing a moment of silence during the Qatar Grand Prix weekend in

Miller ended pre-season testing in Qatar fastest of all with an unofficial lap record and came into the Qatar/Doha Grand Prix double-header as favourite to continue Ducati’s victory streak at the Losail circuit. However, a tyre issue in the first race and arm pump in the second meant he emerged from both rounds in ninth

The six-time world champion will make his long-awaited return to racing this weekend in the Portuguese Grand Prix, following nine months on the sidelines with a broken right arm suffered in last July’s Spanish GP. In his absence, Honda failed to win a race for the first time ever since it returned to the premier

Dovizioso is taking a sabbatical in 2021 after losing his place at Ducati at the end of last season following eight years with the Italian marque. He was offered a race seat with Aprilia for 2021 as well as several test rider roles – including the Yamaha gig that went to Cal Crutchlow – but

MotoGP returns to Europe after its Qatar residency – as the Losail International Circuit hosted both pre-season testing and the opening two rounds – after the start of the season was reshuffled amid COVID-19 pandemic issues. Instead of heading to the United States and Argentina after the Qatar season-opener, the MotoGP paddock descends on Portimao

The Italian manufacturer is the only one of the six present on the current MotoGP grid who supplies bikes to two satellite squads on top of its factory effort. Long-time partner Pramac receives full factory support from Ducati, with both current championship leader Johann Zarco and Jorge Martin running identical machinery to works team duo

Zarco registered just one top 10 result in his stint with KTM as a factory rider in 2019, which ended after the Misano round when the marque elected to drop him with immediate effect after he’d already announced the termination of his two-year contract following the Austrian Grand Prix. A three-race run with LCR and

The Honda star hasn’t been on his RC213V since his aborted comeback at the Andalusian GP last July just days after surgery on the right arm he broke in the Spanish GP, with Friday’s FP1 session at Algarve marking the first time he’ll have ridden a MotoGP bike in 265 days. No one is sure

One-lap time attack pace hasn’t been a strong point of the Suzuki, with Mir the first world champion since Wayne Rainey in 1992 to win the title without a pole position last year. Suzuki’s only pole since it returned to MotoGP in 2015 remains Aleix Espargaro’s top spot in qualifying for that year’s Catalan GP,

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

The Italian has taken over the Tech3 seat vacated by factory rider Miguel Oliveira after the Italian lost his place at Ducati for 2021. Tech3 managed to win two races in 2020 courtesy of Oliveira, but has endured a difficult start to the 2021 campaign with Petrucci. He qualified 21st and 17th for the opening

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