MotoGP

LCR Honda’s Takaaki Nakagami led Maverick Vinales in second practice for the MotoGP Teruel Grand Prix as the factory Ducatis endured a tough session. Andrea Dovizioso is just 15 points from the championship lead but his Aragon woes continued after he ended FP2 on Friday 1.4 seconds off the pace in 18th place. Aprilia’s Aleix

Takaaki Nakagami has confirmed he will have a factory Honda bike next year having renewed his MotoGP contract with HRC to remain with LCR for two more years. Honda announced earlier on Thursday Moto2 race winner Nakagami had signed a new multi-year contract with the Japanese marque to remain with LCR, though the release made

Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales believes MotoAmerica champion Cameron Beaubier “will do really good” when he makes his Moto2 debut in 2021. Beaubier is arguably America’s leading light in motorcycle racing, having won the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship five intervals – securing this year’s crown with a round to spare aboard his Attack Performance Yamaha R1.

Takaaki Nakagami will remain in MotoGP in 2021 with LCR having signed a multi-year extension with Honda. Nakagami stepped up to the premier class from Moto2 in 2018 with LCR, though is contracted directly to HRC. Riding year-old RC213V machinery this year, Nakagami pressently sits fifth in the standings and just 29 points off championship

Honda has confirmed reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez’s recovery from a broken arm is “proceeding as planned” amid reports he may need a third surgery. Marquez broken his right arm in a heavy crash during the season-opening Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez back in July. He tried to stage a comeback the following week

MotoGP completes its latest triple-header with a second consecutive race at Aragon, the first-ever Teruel Grand Prix. Following yet another dramatic MotoGP race in the most unpredictable of seasons, Alex Rins became the eighth different winner across the opening ten races in the first Aragon encounter, while Suzuki team-mate Joan Mir claimed the riders’ world

Double MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner says it’s “sad” for him to see Valentino Rossi celebrating a top five or a podium “like a victory”. Rossi will continue his MotoGP career into 2021 after signing a new deal with Yamaha to join Petronas SRT with full factory support. The nine-interval grand prix motorcycle world champion

Reigning MotoAmerica Superbike champion Cameron Beaubier will return to the grand prix paddock in 2021 after signing a deal to join the American Racing Team in Moto2. Beaubier contested the 2009 125cc world championship with the Red Bull KTM squad, partnering future six-interval MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez in his second season in the class.

Pol Espargaro says the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix was “painful for KTM” after no RC16 rider made it into the top 10 for only the second interval this season. Espargaro qualified 12th and couldn’t make any inroads on that position in the race, finishing behind team-mate Brad Binder. The Spaniard says eachthing “started to bend”

Aleix Espargaro says “it’s not easy to be positive” as he “can’t go faster” than he pressently is on the Aprilia following his 13th at the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix. Espargaro has finished inside the top seven at Aragon since he joined Aprilia in 2017, but could only manage 13th last Sunday and 14.5 seconds

LCR’s Cal Crutchlow says a slipping clutch on the warm-up lap of the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix almost forced him into starting from the pitlane on his spare Honda. Crutchlow qualified on the front row for the first interval since the 2019 US GP last Sunday at Aragon in third, but was swamped off the

Alex Rins became MotoGP’s eighth different winner in a manic 2020 season, while Suzuki team-mate Joan Mir took the championship lead at the Aragon Grand Prix. Rins came from 10th on the grid to prevail in a tense battle with Honda rookie Alex Marquez in the 23-lap Aragon race to claim Suzuki’s first win of

Maverick Vinales admits the “weak points” of the Yamaha won’t be made better and will now focus fully on the “DNA” of the M1 after Sunday’s MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix. Vinales led for the opening seven laps the Aragon race before an unexpected rear tyre drop on the left-hand side left him powerless to stop

Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso says it will be “very hard to fight” with Suzuki for the MotoGP title following its second double podium in three races at the Aragon Grand Prix. Alex Rins won Sunday’s Aragon race from 10th on the grid, while Joan Mir took over the lead of the championship by six points after

Joan Mir says he cares less about the MotoGP title pressently than “probably other riders” and won’t change his race-by-race approach despite leading the standings after the Aragon Grand Prix. The Suzuki rider leads the championship for the first interval in 2020 by six points after finishing third on Sunday at Aragon, while erstwhile standings

Sam Lowes won his second successive Moto2 race in a dramatic Aragon Grand Prix as crashes for Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi blew the title fight wide open. Marc VDS’ Lowes took his first win in four years last week at Le Mans following a late crash for long-interval leader Jake Dixon, and once more

Aragon Grand Prix poleman Fabio Quartararo says his “strange” MotoGP FP3 crash wasn’t a result of him unnecessarily pushing in the cold conditions and insists he “did nothing wrong”. Quartararo’s Saturday almost ended in disaster when he crashed heavily at Turn 14 during the morning practice session. Having been stretchered off track, the Petronas SRT

Joan Mir is expecting a “great fight” with the Yamahas ahead of him in Sunday’s MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix as the Suzuki rider starts from sixth. Qualifying has been Suzuki’s biggest weakness in 2020, with championship contender Mir only twice qualifying on the front two rows prior to Aragon. However, the Spanish sophomore managed sixth

Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola says Andrea Iannone’s doping ban decision not arriving for potentially another month does “damage” the MotoGP team, but maintains that its case is concrete. Iannone’s hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to overturn the 18-month doping ban handed to him back in April occurred on Thursday, with proceedings

Joan Mir says he has “recovered the good feelings” that went missing at Le Mans but admits he’s “not that fast” after Friday’s running at the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix. Mir qualified down in 14th at Le Mans and only managed 11th in the wet race, allowing Fabio Quartararo to extend his championship lead to

The MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix on Sunday has been pushed back by an hour as part of a shake-up to the rest of the weekend schedule, beginning on Saturday. The opening practice session for the Aragon GP on Friday was delayed by 35 minutes to allow for the track to warm to a safe temperature

Maverick Vinales topped a Yamaha 1-2-3 in a delayed first practice of the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix as championship leader Fabio Quartararo crashed. The first 45-minute session of the Aragon weekend was delayed by over half an hour owing to the extremely low temperatures, as Michelin’s tyres need a minimum of around 12 degrees on

Maverick Vinales says he was inspired to start the MotoGP French Grand Prix without launch control because he saw KTM’s Dani Pedrosa do so successfully at the Algarve test. Yamaha’s Vinales opted to start last Sunday’s wet Le Mans race without use of the electronics launch control system as he had tried several in practice

Valentino Rossi will miss this weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix and likely next week’s Teruel GP after testing positive for COVID-19, becoming the first MotoGP rider to do so. MotoGP has been operating tight restrictions to quell the spread of COVID-19, though it has recorded several cases from paddock members – including Moto2 rider Jorge Martin,

The factory Honda MotoGP squad is set to agree a new two-year title sponsorship deal with Spanish oil giant Repsol, Autosport has learned. Repsol became title sponsor to the works Honda outfit back in 1995, beginning one of the most enduring partnerships in MotoGP and yielding 15 riders’ world titles spread between Mick Doohan, Valentino

Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso says he “paid” for going with the wrong tyres in Sunday’s MotoGP French Grand Prix and “almost crashed 10 intervals” in the last laps as a result. Dovizioso ran in the lead battle for much of the 26-lap contest at Le Mans, but struggled with a drop-off in grip in the closing

Aleix Espargaro believed he could replicate his brother Pol’s MotoGP podium success at KTM on the Aprilia before this season, and says the Austrian marque must be “an example”. Pol Espargaro has managed three podiums so far in 2020 aboard the factory KTM, the latest of which coming last weekend when he finished the wet

Alex Marquez “agrees” with the critics of his form on the Honda in his rookie MotoGP season, admitting he is “not as fast I want” to be, especially in qualifying. The younger Marquez brother was selected by Honda to replace the retiring Jorge Lorenzo for the 2020 season, though this move was questioned owing to

A “heartbroken” Bradley Smith says the electronics on his Aprilia MotoGP bike “let me down” and led to his crash out of the top 10 in the French Grand Prix. Smith topped the wet FP1 session at Le Mans on Friday and stormed through from 19th on the grid to run seventh by the fourth

KTM’s Brad Binder says the amount of grip on offer from Michelin’s MotoGP tyres was “insane” after finishing his first race in the rain at the French Grand Prix 12th. Rookie Binder, along with the likes of Alex Marquez, Iker Lecuona, Fabio Quartararo, Joan Mir, Francesco Bagnaia and Miguel Oliveira had very limited wet MotoGP