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On Monday 3 June, Motorsport.com broke the news that Ducati had made a U-turn on its decision to promote championship leader Jorge Martin from Pramac to its factory squad.With Marquez stating at the Italian Grand Prix that racing on a factory bike at Pramac was “not an option” for him, Ducati’s plans to keep both riders were scuppered.With the form Marquez has shown on the 2023-spec Ducati ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Between the Barcelona and Mugello races, Ducati informed Jorge Martin that he was the chosen one to be Francesco Bagnaia's team-mate in 2025 in the official Ducati team.On the eve of the Italian Grand Prix, a senior factory executive welcomed the rider and they shook hands, thanking the championship leader for his patience and perseverance over the last few years to get here.At Borgo Panigale they ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

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In recent weeks, Ducati developed an ideal scenario for the next two years in MotoGP, which, in the eyes of its executives, would fit perfectly with their will and that of eight-time world champion Marc Marquez and current standings leader Jorge Martin, whose renewals became a priority once Francesco Bagnaia was secured.The idea was to promote Martin to the factory team, as Bagnaia's team-mate ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

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Quartararo has intermittently suffered from arm pump throughout his premier-class career, with the Frenchman famously plummeting from first to 13th in the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix.Yamaha has made a number of changes to its M1 challenger over the past 12 months and, while Quartararo has repeatedly hailed the Japanese marque for bringing new developments, he feels one unintended consequence of the ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Bastianini put in an impressive performance in front of his home crowd at Mugello on Sunday, making two key overtakes in a race that featured little action to complete a 1-2 result for Ducati.The 26-year-old first cleared the Gresini bike of Marc Marquez with two laps to go going into Scarperia, before catching championship leader Jorge Martin by a surprise with an impressive pass into the final ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Having finally cleared the factory Ducati of Enea Bastianini on lap 18 of 23 after hounding him for much of the day, Marquez was chasing after Pramac’s Jorge Martin for second as the Mugello race neared its conclusion.But with two laps to the finish, Bastianini was able to retaliate and retake third position on the entry to Scarperia, dropping Marquez back down to fourth and outside the podium ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

The Mugello race featured a limited number of position changes at the front after the opening lap, as the field circulated in formation behind race leader Francesco Bagnaia on a hot and sunny day in Italy.With three laps to go it appeared that the race had finally come alive, with Martin closing within three tenths of factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia after the latter suffered a sudden drop ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Bagnaia - who was demoted from second to fifth due to a grid penalty - claimed the lead at Turn 2 on the opening lap and never looked back, taking the chequered flag by 0.8s over team-mate Bastianini, as championship leader Jorge Martin had to settle for third. At the start of the race, Bagnaia made a brilliant launch from fifth on the grid, taking the outside line into Turn 1 to shoot up to ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

The MotoGP silly season is in full swing heading into Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, with all eyes on the battle to fill the vacant factory seat at Ducati alongside Francesco Bagnaia.During the week, current championship leader and Pramac rider Jorge Martin emerged as the favourite to replace Enea Bastianini in Ducati’s line-up for 2025, although no confirmation has been forthcoming ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Espargaro announced ahead of last week's Catalan Grand Prix that he will retire at the end of the 2024 season, bringing to an end a 20-year career in the MotoGP paddock that has so far yielded three premier class victories with Aprilia.The Catalan already said at the time that he was seriously contemplating the possibility of becoming a test rider, given the experience he possesses.Despite the ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Factory Ducati rider Bagnaia was finally able to end a barren run stretching all the way back to last year’s Austrian Grand Prix by taking the top spot in the half-distance race at Mugello, beating Gresini’s Marc Marquez by over a second.His victory followed just a week after he dropped his Ducati on the last lap of the Catalan Grand Prix sprint while leading, a mistake that not only cost him ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Championship leader Martin retired from Saturday’s sprint at Mugello while running third, losing the front-end of his GP24 into the first corner with four laps remaining.But even before his race-ending crash, the Spaniard was losing touch with eventual sprint winner Francesco Bagnaia and second-placed Marc Marquez, both on Ducati machinery, despite his strong record in half-distance races in ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Quartararo was unlucky to retire from Saturday’s sprint race at Mugello on lap two of 11 when Miguel Oliveira crashed his Trackhouse Aprilia in front of him at Turn 10 following a failed attempt to overtake the Frenchman, leaving the former with nowhere to go.The 2021 champion went down with Oliveira into the right-hander and retired immediately, bringing a premature end to a Saturday in which ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

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At the start of the 11-lap race, the factory Ducatis shot to the front from polesitter Martin, with reigning champion Bagnaia taking the lead from team-mate Enea Bastianini.KTM’s Brad Binder jumped from 14th on the grid to take fourth behind Martin, with Marc Marquez dropping a place to fifth.Heading into lap three, Bastianini was trying to retake the second position he had lost to Martin when ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Coming into 2024, only three riders had contracts in their back pockets which guaranteed them a place on the 2025 grid.That number has now jumped to seven with the latest announcement that Fabio Quartararo has signed on with Yamaha for two more years and Pedro Acosta will be promoted to the factory KTM squad.Here is how the grid is shaping up for the 2025 season.Ducati CorseRider 1: #1 Francesco ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

The 20-year-old has secured a promotion to KTM’s top squad after just six rounds into his rookie campaign, where he has already secured two grand prix podiums and fought with champions including Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia."It was important to me to keep pushing with KTM, and to see the whole project and the story until now and how we have grown in racing," said Acosta."So, it’s nice to ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Martin, who leads the championship by 39 points coming into the Mugello round, scored his third pole of the year with a new lap record of 1m44.504s set on his first flying lap.The Spaniard, who looks set to step up to the factory Ducati team in 2025, beat reigning champion and last year’s Italian GP winner Bagnaia.The Italian was just 0.043 seconds behind Martin, though will have to drop three ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

On Friday at the Italian Grand Prix, Pramac team boss Gino Borsoi told DAZN that his squad will be the only satellite structure with factory Ducatis in 2025.This comes after Marc Marquez, who looks like he will be passed over in favour of Jorge Martin for the factory team Ducati seat, told the media on Thursday that racing for Pramac in 2025 is “not an option”.As it stands, if Pramac activates ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Marc and Alex Marquez's Gresini team has joined forces with MotoGP Guru and SPORTPASS to launch the world's first fan-powered sponsorship programme. The new programme enables fans to purchase a team “micro-sponsorship package” for as little as €125 and tap into the benefits historically reserved to corporate sponsors and VIPs.The entry-level sponsorships ranging from €125 - €350 include ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

The six-time MotoGP world champion had been in the running for the factory team Ducati seat alongside Francesco Bagnaia for 2025.However, despite his recent run of podiums just six rounds into his time on the 2023-spec Ducati at Gresini, it appears the Italian manufacturer will promote last year’s championship runner-up and current points leader Jorge Martin.Marquez noted on Thursday ahead of ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

In the closing stages of second practice at Mugello on Friday afternoon, Gresini’s Marquez was forced to abort a flying lap when he came across a slow Bagnaia on the approach to Turn 12.Marquez was enraged by this and vented his frustrations to Bagnaia on his bike as the pair rounded the corner.Both riders secured a place directly into Saturday’s Q2 qualifying, with Bagnaia leading second ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Bagnaia dominated the hour-long afternoon session with a 1m44.938s, but is currently under investigation from the FIM stewards for potentially blocking Alex Marquez on a flying lap late on.Tech3 GasGas rookie Pedro Acosta recovered to third after a fast crash at Turn 13 halfway through the session, while Marc Marquez secured direct passage into Q2 for the first time since the Spanish GP.FP1 ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи