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On Thursday ahead of the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, reports emerged that Ducati has decided to promote Jorge Martin to its factory team for 2025.While initially it looked like it lead to Marquez moving to Pramac to take a factory bike, the six-time MotoGP world champion complicated the situation by stating the team is “not an option for him”.Marquez later acknowledged that his plans to ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

For its home race, Aprilia has five RS-GPs on the grid with its two factory team riders, the Trackhouse Racing duo and wildcard Lorenzo Savadori.Vinales was the best of them at the top of the timesheets in the first 45-minute practice of the Mugello weekend, the Spaniard setting a 1m46.140s on a fresh medium rear tyre in the closing stages.He headed 2021 world champion Quartararo on the factory ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Pramac rider Jorge Martin leads the championship on 155 points heading to Ducati's home race, with reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia his closest challenger on 116 points.Gresini's Marc Marquez sits only two points further adrift in third, despite racing on a year-old bike.2024 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix session ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Перевод книги, по которой режиссером Джеффом Николсом снят фильм «Байкеры» с Томом Харди и Остином Батлером. Версия получилась расширенная — в перевод добавлены более 40 фотографий, рассказ об одном из героев и различные примечания, которых в оригинале нет. Читать дальшеПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Early Thursday morning, it emerged that Ducati had finally decided to choose Jorge Martin to join Francesco Bagnaia in the official Borgo Panigale team from next season.As the hours went by, Marquez's discourse hardened. At first, the multi-champion was asked about the news in question, and he was disoriented: "This is not the information I have," he replied in one of the many interviews he gave ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Marquez’s future had been of much speculation in recent months, as Ducati evaluates him for a possible promotion to the works team alongside Francesco Bagnaia on the back of his impressive adaptation to the Desmosedici at Gresini.However, championship leader Jorge Martin’s current form with Pramac, combined with his stance that he will not settle for anything less than the factory seat ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

This comes following reports this morning, first from Gazzetta dello Sport, that Ducati has decided to promote Jorge Martin to its factory team seat for 2025.Ducati had already outlined this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix as the place to make its decision, though said earlier this week that it wouldn’t make an announcement.Over the last few rounds it has become clear that the battle for the seat ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

This weekend's Italian Grand Prix at Mugello has always been earmarked by Ducati management as the moment it wants to finalise its factory team line-up for 2025.However, earlier this week it told Motorsport.com that it would not make the official announcement on its decision at Mugello.The race for the second factory Ducati seat has become between championship leader Martin and six-time MotoGP ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

At the Spanish Grand Prix this year, Marc Marquez scored his first grand prix podium aboard the Gresini-run 2023-spec Ducati he ditched the factory Honda for.As the Italian GP approaches, a sequence of win milestones throughout Ducati's history corresponding to rider numbers could be added to by Marquez.Back at the second round of the current MotoGP campaign in Portugal, Martin – carrying the ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

VR46 rider Bezzecchi was an outside contender for the title during his breakthrough 2023 campaign, where he eventually finished third in the standings to champion Francesco Bagnaia and second-placed Jorge Martin after scoring victories in Argentina, France and India.But the Italian’s results have nosedived since he switched to last year’s GP23 bike, with the opening six rounds of the season ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

On Tuesday the promoter of the Indian GP announced that this year’s MotoGP race was cancelled and it will look to reschedule the event in March 2025.Dorna had intended to slot the Kazakhstan GP, which was originally supposed to be held in June but had to be postponed due to severe floods in the region, into the weekend held by Indian GP.MotoGP officials have now confirmed the change, with the ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

The 10-time grand prix winner has been with Aprilia since the latter half of the 2021 campaign, following his acrimonious split with Yamaha that year, and has become a firm favourite with management.Aprilia’s faith in Vinales paid off earlier this year in America when he scored his first grand prix win with the Italian manufacturer.It has been thought for a while that Vinales’ Aprilia future ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Fairstreet Sports, the organiser of the event along with MotoGP rights holder Dorna, revealed on Tuesday that the second edition of the event has now been called off, confirming reports published by Motorsport.com earlier this month.The Buddh International Circuit, located on the outskirts of capital Delhi, was due to stage the 14th round of the season on 23-25 September.Dorna's intention is to ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Honda has been working behind the scenes in private tests to improve its troubled 2024 package, though its riders didn’t receive some hoped-for improvements at Barcelona last weekend.Johann Zarco did race with a new aerodynamic package, while an updated engine was used by Mir and Luca Marini also.But this did little to help Honda at Barcelona, with LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami the lead HRC rider ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Let's be upfront about it and admit that the story is slightly altered. While it is true that the first part of the equation must be cleared up by Ducati, the problem will not be completely solved until the chosen rider signs the contract.Of the three who started the race for that second factory Ducati, Enea Bastianini has been left behind, a circumstance that places Martin and Marquez in the two ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Repsol appeared on the livery of the Honda NSR500 in the premier class of the world championship in 1995, with Mick Doohan and Alex Criville as riders.Since then, the partnership has remained uninterrupted, with the current season marking its 30th anniversary.The partnership between Repsol and Honda has yielded 15 championship titles, 183 victories and 455 podiums.However, after Marc Marquez's ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Benelli, китайская марка мотоциклов с итальянскими корнями, уже довольно давно продает свой экшен-байк базового уровня TRK 502. Когда он дебютировал в 2017 году, то произвел фурор, так как обладал функциями, опережавшими время. Просмотреть полный текст статьи

Although two-time champion Bagnaia has been one of the star performers this year on the new GP24, the Italian hasn’t been able to convert his speed into top-line results in half-distance races that are now an important part of grand prix weekends.While championship leader Jorge Martin has once again emerged as the king of sprint races in 2024, Bagnaia has yet to finish on the podium in any of ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

The Tech3 GasGas rider – who turned 20 over the Barcelona weekend – scored a second sprint podium of the season on Saturday and was in the rostrum hunt again in the grand prix.Acosta was running in second behind Pramac’s Jorge Martin when he crashed at Turn 10 on lap 11 of 24. The Spaniard remounted and finished 13th.A disappointed Acosta said of his crash: “We had a problem with the front ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Over the last few weeks, Ducati management has suggested that it wants to make a decision on who partners Bagnaia in 2025 by the Mugello race.Coming into this weekend’s seventh round of the year, it appears the decision is between championship leader Jorge Martin and eight-time grand prix world champion Marc Marquez.While a decision is expected soon, Ducati has told Motorsport.com's Spanish ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

An emotional retirement announcement, a chaotic sprint race and defiant comebacks were the main talking points from the 2024 MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix.Ahead of the sixth round of the season, veteran rider Aleix Espargaro announced to the world that he would be calling time on his MotoGP career at the end of the 2024 season. A career of 20 years that has been characterised by hardship, doubts and ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Quartararo made that comment after jumping from 17th on the grid to finish ninth in Sunday’s Catalan Grand Prix, securing his second top-10 finish of the season.The Frenchman was racing with a new aero package in Barcelona, part of the larger suite of upgrades that Yamaha has been testing between grand prix weekends in a bid to overhaul its troubled M1 challenger.The 2021 champion has previously ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

…Когда адреналин начинает отпускать, я снова опускаюсь на колени рядом с мотоциклом, пытаясь понять, какого черта все-таки произошло. Первое, что бросается в глаза, это оборванная приводная цепь, упрямо болтающаяся на передней звезде. Ее хвост теперь лежит в пыли, словно мертвая змея. Читать дальшеПросмотреть полный текст статьи

The factory Ducati rider was battling with Gresini’s Alex Marquez at the outer reaches of the top 10 in Sunday’s 24-lap Catalan GP when he was forced wide at Turn 1.Bastianini ran through the run-off area at Turns 1-2, with riders meant to demonstrate that they have lost at least a second in lap time to escape punishment.The stewards handed Bastianini – who was expecting Marquez to have to ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Bagnaia scored a key victory in Sunday's race at Barcelona after coming on top in a close duel with title rival Martin, overtaking him on lap 19 of 24 with an impressive move on the inside at Turn 5.It was the same corner at which he had slid off his factory GP24 on the final lap of Saturday's half-distance contest, a crash that further widened his deficit to Pramac rider Martin in the ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи