After a few weekends where he struggled to have the same feeling under braking as earlier in the season, Francesco Bagnaia believes he’s back to his best at the Japanese MotoGP.
Marc Marquez clocked up his 20th fall of the season in the closing stages of Friday practice at the Japanese MotoGP, sending him into Saturday’s Qualifying 1.
After completing his first MotoGP laps since fracturing his right leg at Mugello in May, Alex Rins has been declared unfit for the remainder of the Japanese MotoGP weekend.
With Francesco Bagnaia’s MotoGP title lead reduced to just 13 points after crashing out in India, solving his braking woes is the top priority for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix.
Marc Marquez is keeping his cards close to his chest, but former MotoGP title rival and Repsol Honda team-mate Jorge Lorenzo thinks a Gresini Ducati move is ‘done’.
Absent since fracturing his right tibia and fibula at Mugello in May, Alex Rins has been passed fit to make a MotoGP return for LCR Honda at Motegi this weekend.
Cal Crutchlow has completed a private test at Motegi, the same track where he will make a wild-card entry for Yamaha in the factory’s home Japanese MotoGP.
Yamaha has officially confirmed that three-time MotoGP race winner and factory test rider Cal Crutchlow will make a wild-card entry at this year’s Motegi round, in Japan
Three wins over the last three MotoGP seasons is far from the usual standards set by Repsol Honda and Marc Marquez, with the latter averaging eight wins per season prior to 2020.
Aprilia Racing CEO, Massimo Rivola, expects the new MotoGP Sprint format to suit Aleix Espargaro as the Spaniard ‘will have less time to prepare for the race’.