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LCR rider Johann Zarco hopes Yamaha's expansion to four bikes in MotoGP next year will provide an extra incentive for Honda to close the gap to the front.The French rider believes the decision of his former team Pramac to become a satellite squad for Yamaha from 2025 will benefit both Japanese manufacturers, as they seek to level the field with their European counterparts.Both Yamaha and Honda ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

With the new regulatory framework that came into force following a unanimous vote by all MotoGP manufacturers, Yamaha and Honda were placed in the D class. This allows them, among other things, to ride with their regular rider line-up as many times as they want and to make engine modifications - something that is not allowed to the rest.But a simple glance at the championship standings might make ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Three-time MotoGP race winner Cal Crutchlow will not take part in the British GP next month due to continued issues with his hand, Yamaha said on Monday.The Briton, who retired from full-time racing at the end of 2020, was set to compete in the Silverstone race as one of his three wildcard entries planned for the year.The Yamaha test rider had been expected to compete in the Italian Grand Prix at ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

MotoGP's planned debut at the Sokol International Circuit has become something of a soap opera. At this point, it is quite understandable that most of the paddock's members doubt that the Kazakhstan race will ever take place.The 'show' has offered several chapters. Dorna, the rights holder for the event, first introduced Kazakhstan on the 2023 calendar. Under the slogan "New circuit, new ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

The Kazakhstan Grand Prix will be replaced on the 2024 MotoGP calendar by a second round at Misano, it was announced on Monday.The news means it is the third time the Kazakhstan race has been postponed since it was originally included on the calendar.First scheduled to make its debut in 2023, the Sokol event was postponed until July this year because the circuit was not ready in time.But flooding ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Valentino Rossi’s VR46 squad “doesn’t agree” with Ducati’s decision to cut down the supply of factory MotoGP bikes to just three next season.Team boss Alessio ‘Uccio’ Salucci has expressed his disappointment over Ducati only providing the outfit with a single example of the GP25 in 2025, when Pramac has enjoyed two of the latest-spec bikes in the last two seasons.VR46 had originally ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Ducati says its decision to sign Marc Marquez for its factory MotoGP team in 2025 has garnered a “divisive” response in Italy.The marque has admitted that it has received a bit of criticism for choosing six-time champion Marquez over Jorge Martin as Francesco Bagania’s team-mate for next season.Read Also: MotoGPDucati picks MotoGP crew chief for Marquez's factory step in ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Aleix Espargaro feels his ‘job at Aprilia is done’ and he now wants to help Honda return to winning ways in MotoGP in his role as a test rider.Espargaro has been a key pillar of Aprilia’s MotoGP programme since 2017 and widely hailed for transforming the RS-GP from a perennial backmarker to a multiple race-winning bike.But instead of continuing his relationship with the Noale-based marque ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Героем, победивший всех в долгом марафонском забеге, оказалался TRANSALP XL 750 ABS, этого года. Список претендетов был довольно большой, перечислю все по порядку, и почему не был выбран каждый. Сначало вводные, 90-60-90, ой, не тот сайт :) рост 170, вес 83 кг, руки короткие :( В основном катаю с двойкой, с ранней весны до первого льда, основной транспорт в сезон. В общем катаю достаточно, вследствие чего хочется минимального комфорта и ветрозащиты, люблю универсальность, так что естественно что выбор пал турэндуры. Читать дальшеПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Moto2 frontrunner Fermin Aldeguer is still waiting for Ducati to decide the team with which he will make his step up to MotoGP in 2025.Aldeguer had been expected to join Pramac after he signed a MotoGP contract directly with Ducati at the start of his third season in Moto2.But Pramac’s decision to break a long association with Ducati and join the Yamaha fold next year has complicated matters for ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Внезапный выходной в будний день «я через час освобожусь, едем!». Приятная новость ) Поехали. Маршрут, который ждал своего часа некоторое время. Один день, ~500км, и всего две точки, куда мы хотели заехать вместе ) All photos provided by Dee Troy © Читать дальшеПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Maverick Vinales has conceded he can't "comprehend" how Aprilia goes from running at the front in Friday practice to being 10 seconds off the pace over the course of a MotoGP race weekend.Since Vinales's emphatic victory in the Americas Grand Prix in April, Aprilia is yet to add another podium finish to its tally and is fighting to remain second in the manufacturers' standings with KTM.In last ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

"If anyone thinks that a factory is going to allow a satellite team rider to win the world championship, they don't have a clue where they are," a former rider and current team manager of a MotoGP told this writer on the condition of anonymity.And that was before Jorge Martin found out that Ducati had picked Marc Marquez over him for the second factory seat for 2025, prompting him to switch to ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Модельная линейка Himalayan от Royal Enfield проходит стадию модернизации. Покупателей ждет резкое изменение бренда, который ранее ассоциировался с реликвиями 1950-х годов.Просмотреть полный текст статьи

Marc Marquez has set out a goal of finishing inside the top three in the MotoGP standings this year, as he admits keeping factory Ducati rider Enea Bastianini behind “won’t be easy”.Gresini rider Marquez has been a part of MotoGP’s 'big three' group this year alongside reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia and Pramac ace Jorge Martin, with the trio locking out the podium at Le Mans and ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Самое малопосещаемое и дикое из больших ущелий КБР — Черек-Балкарское, в июле 2024 года радует сочной зеленью и кристально чистым звенящим воздухом Как обычно, с координатами проверенных палаточных ночевок, общепита и достопримечательностей. Восторг от природы — словами, боюсь не передать, даже komendantу. Читать дальшеПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Pramac rider Franco Morbidelli showed glimpses of his former self as he battled team-mate Jorge Martin and reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia for a podium in last weekend’s German GP.While his strategy to play aggressively early on ultimately dropped him to fifth at the finish, there were only positives to take for a rider who is rebuilding his career after going from fighting for the ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

KTM protege Pedro Acosta has given himself a 4.5 grade out of 10 after the opening half of his rookie MotoGP season.Tech3 GasGas rider Acosta made a storming debut in MotoGP at the start of the year, as he outperformed all his KTM compatriots and finished on the podium in only his second grand prix at Portimao. Another trip to the rostrum at Austin only cemented the belief that he is a ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Gresini MotoGP rider Alex Marquez says he would have traded all his previous 42 grand prix podiums for the one he achieved in last weekend’s German Grand Prix with elder brother Marc.Alex and Marc Marquez shared a podium in MotoGP for the first time in Sunday’s race at the Sachsenring after finishing third and second respectively behind race winner Francesco Bagnaia (factory Ducati team).It ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Francesco Bagnaia’s victory at the Sachsenring on Sunday elevated him to the top of the standings by 10 points over Pramac Ducati rival Jorge Martin, who had things under control until his surprise crash on the penultimate lap.Marc Marquez couldn’t add another win to his Sachsenring tally, but was delighted with second place after a horrible weekend - especially after brother and Gresini ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Francesco Bagnaia believes the German Grand Prix would have gone down the wire had Jorge Martin not crashed on the penultimate lap and handed him an easy MotoGP win.Pramac rider Martin was circulating comfortably in the front as the Sachsenring race neared its conclusion, having started from pole position and retaken the lead from title rival Bagnaia on lap 7 of 30.But the Italian appeared to have ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

MotoGP star Marc Marquez felt like he “won” the German Grand Prix after charging from 13th on the grid to finish second behind future team-mate Francesco Bagnaia.Marquez has repeatedly been labelled the ‘King of Sachsenring’ thanks to his unbeaten streak at the German venue between 2011-21 in MotoGP and its junior classes, but the Spaniard’s hopes of adding a 12th victory to his tally ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Jorge Martin says he has no explanation for his exit from the MotoGP German Grand Prix, after crashing out from a front-running position for a third time in the 2024 season.Pramac rider Martin was on his way to claiming a third Sunday win of the year at the Sachsenring on Sunday, but tucked the front end of his Ducati at Turn 1 at the start of the penultimate tour and ended up in the gravel.The ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Francesco Bagnaia moved to the top of the MotoGP standings with victory in the German Grand Prix after title rival Jorge Martin crashed out while holding a comfortable lead.Martin had looked set to take top honours at the Sachsenring from pole position after repassing Bagnaia early on in the race, but an error with just two laps to the finish handed the top spot and the championship lead to ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи

Fabio di Giannantonio will continue to race for VR46 until the 2026 MotoGP season after agreeing a deal with Ducati, Motorsport.com has learned.As per the agreement, di Giannantonio has been guaranteed the full-factory spec GP25 from Ducati in 2025, having had to be content with year-old machinery during his first three years in MotoGP.The Italian had a two-year offer from Yamaha to race for ...Keep readingПросмотреть полный текст статьи