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Jorge Lorenzo's return to Yamaha this season made the five-time world champion the most highly qualified test rider of the MotoGP era.

Luca Marini took victory after running an intelligent race, passing Sam Lowes late at the Moto2 Catalunya Grand Prix in Barcelona. 

Race results from the 2020 Catalunya Moto2 Grand Prix at Barcelona.

Luca Marini secured back to back poles ahead of the Moto2 Catalunya Grand Prix.

Valentino Rossi isn’t ruling out a MotoGP move for his VR46 team but said it won't happen for 2021, when the focus is on trying to secure the Avintia Ducati place for his brother Luca Marini.

Luca Marini broke the lap record on his first flying lap to take pole position for the Moto2 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Misano.

Luca Marini inherited pole and held off his teammate for a home win in the Moto2 San Marino Grand Prix in Misano

Officially, Ducati Corse has still only signed one rider for the 2021 MotoGP World Championship, with Jack Miller confirmed as moving from Pramac to the factory team.

Slow progress in its negotiations with star rider Andrea Dovizioso has seen Ducati recently admit that Francesco Bagnaia might move to the official team next year, should no agreement be reached with the #4.

Luca Marini hit the front and never looked back as he eased to victory in the Jerez Moto2 Grand Prix

Valentino Rossi has completed his first laps of a grand prix circuit since the end of the Qatar MotoGP test on February 24, after which escalating coronavirus restrictions saw the opening race weekend cancelled and a lockdown in Europe.

MotoGP’s silly season had been set to erupt and rumble on throughout 2020 but with the campaign postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic all plans have been put on hold.

Team-mates giving each other a tow has become a regular sight at the end of Moto2 and Moto3 qualifying. But in the case of Sky VR46, such formation riding is used for much more than the occasional slipstream to try and start higher on the grid.

Luca Marini might count himself unlucky to miss out on pole position for the 2020 Moto2 world championship opener in Qatar after setting an identical lap time to Joe Roberts but he remains assured with bigger prizes in sight.

Joe Roberts takes a stunning maiden pole position at the 2020 Moto2 opener in Qatar with an identical lap time to Luca Marini.

Sky Racing VR46 presents its 2020 Moto2 and Moto3 livery for Luca Marini, Marco Bezzecchi, Celestino Vietti and Andrea Migno.

Sky Racing Team VR46 reveals its Moto2 and Moto3 colours for 2020.

Valentino Rossi may have been absent from the MotoGP podium since April, but the nine-time world champion completed 2019 on the rostrum - alongside brother Luca Marini and friend Alessio 'Uccio' Salucci in the Gulf 12 Hours sportscar race.

Fresh from Monday's Mercedes F1 ride-swap with Lewis Hamilton, MotoGP's Valentino Rossi headed straight to Abu-Dhabi where he is competing in this weekend's Gulf 12 Hours sports car race at the Yas Marina Circuit.

MotoGP has started its winter off-season, but it hasn’t slowed down the latest gossip starting with Marc Marquez’s expected recovery timetable from his right shoulder surgery…

Race results from the 2019 Japanese Moto2 Grand Prix at Motegi, round 16 of 19.

Luca Marini took his first back-to-back wins after finding a way back around Tom Luthi in the Moto2 Japanese Grand Prix.

Luca Marini was untouchable in qualifying, claiming pole by over a second ahead of the Japanese Moto2 Grand Prix.

Qualifying results from the 2019 Japanese Moto2 Grand Prix at Motegi round 16 of 19.