Petronas Yamaha rookie Fabio Quartararo secured the second pole position of his first MotoGP season in Catalan Grand Prix qualifying at Barcelona. Quartararo, who bagged his sole Moto2 win at the same venue last year and had arm pump surgery in the lead-up to this weekend, beat Honda’s championship leader Marc Marquez by 0.015 seconds.

KTM MotoGP rider Johann Zarco has labelled rumours linking him to Honda in World Superbikes for 2020 “bulls**t”, and says the person who started them should “lose his job”. The double Moto2 champion has struggled to adapt from the Tech3 Yamaha to the KTM so far this season, with a rise in tensions between Zarco

MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix Friday pacesetter Fabio Quartararo says he “didn’t expect” to be so quick having undergone surgery on an arm-pump issue just over a week ago. The Petronas SRT rider underwent the operation last Tuesday in Barcelona, having experienced arm-pump problems during his run to 10th at the Italian Grand Prix. Quartararo was

Petronas SRT Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo led the way in second MotoGP practice of the Catalan Grand Prix weekend, beating Andrea Dovizioso by 0.281 seconds. The French rookie, who underwent arm pump surgery in the lead-up to the Barcelona round, beat Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso with a 1m40.079s at the chequered flag to end up as

Johann Zarco says KTM MotoGP test rider Dani Pedrosa’s feedback will validate whether his comments about the RC16 so far this season “are wrong or not”. Pedrosa, who retired from racing at the end of last year, stepped over to KTM from Honda as its official test rider, and resumed his duties following a five-month

Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi says his recent visit to the “forbidden” Cavallara motocross venue was a way of keeping focus after the “shock” of the Italian Grand Prix. Rossi had endured a disastrous weekend at Mugello, failing to make Q2 and having his race compromised by a clash with Suzuki’s Joan Mir, before ultimately

KTM MotoGP test rider Dani Pedrosa will make his racing comeback at the Goodwood Revival’s Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy races on a 500cc Paton. The 31-time premier class race winner retired from racing at the end of last season, leaving Honda to take up his role with KTM. Pedrosa will pilot a 4-stroke 500cc twin-cylinder

Former MotoGP racer Jonas Folger will make his first race start in almost two years in next weekend’s Barcelona Moto2 race. Folger’s maiden MotoGP campaign with the Tech3 Yamaha squad in 2017 yielded a podium at the Sachsenring, but was cut short when he contracted the Epstein-Barr virus, which forced him to skip the final

Jorge Lorenzo is applying bike braking elements and dynamics that he used at Ducati to his Honda MotoGP bike in order to improve his feeling and close the gap to the fastest riders. Regardless of the changes that he considers necessary to the ergonomics of the RC213V that he will carry out this week in

Petronas SRT rider Fabio Quartararo has undergone surgery for arm-pump in Barcelona and is expected to be fit for the Catalan MotoGP Grand Prix next weekend. Quartararo, who finished last week’s Mugello race a distant 10th having started from second, blamed his inability to rise through the order on an overheating front tyre. The SRT

Andrea Dovizioso says his Ducati team-mate Danilo Petrucci lacked self-belief earlier in his MotoGP career, and feels Petrucci has made a breakthrough since understanding his strengths. Petrucci was signed by Ducati on an initial one-year deal after a long stint as a MotoGP privateer, and took his maiden win at Mugello last Sunday, beating Marc

Jack Miller says MotoGP rival Alex Rins “scared the s*** out of me” during the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, as the Australian was caught out by the Suzuki’s cornering ability. The fast-turning GSX-RR of Rins charged from 13th on the grid to run behind fourth-placed Miller after just two laps, and Rins then fired

Valentino Rossi called his home MotoGP race at Mugello “one of the worst for a long time” for him after crashing from 21st place. Rossi struggled throughout the Italian Grand Prix weekend, with a mistake in Saturday morning practice leaving him in Q1 – where he only qualified 18th. He made little progress in the

Jorge Lorenzo is travelling to Japan on Monday in a bid to improve his feeling on Honda’s MotoGP bike after another disappointing result at Mugello. Three-time premier class champion Lorenzo’s troubled 2019 campaign continued in the Italian Grand Prix, which was the scene of his first victory as a Ducati rider 12 months ago. But

Marc Marquez claims he did not try a last-lap winning move in the Italian Grand Prix because he was thinking of the MotoGP title race with Andrea Dovizioso. Marquez was fighting with factory Ducati pair Petrucci and Dovizioso for the victory at Mugello, with Alex Rins in close pursuit behind the trio. Petrucci led late

Italian Grand Prix winner Danilo Petrucci says he is “so sorry” to Andrea Dovizioso for his last-lap move that his team-mate described as “very aggressive”. Petrucci picked up his maiden MotoGP win after a scintillating three-way scrap against Dovizioso and Honda rider Marc Marquez that featured the three bikes running side-by-side into Turn 1 on

Ducati rider Danilo Petrucci secured his maiden MotoGP victory on home soil at Mugello after edging out Marc Marquez at the conclusion of a thrilling Italian Grand Prix. Petrucci held on in a tense showdown, beating Honda rider Marquez by only 0.043 seconds on the drag to the finish line, with Andrea Dovizioso making it

Marc Marquez is adamant that Ducati ordered its test rider Michele Pirro to follow him during qualifying for MotoGP’s Italian Grand Prix at Mugello. Honda rider Marquez scorched to his fourth pole position of the 2019 campaign on Saturday, benefitting from Andrea Dovizioso’s tow to beat Fabio Quartararo by two tenths of a second. Explaining

Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi said that an issue with his brakes in Saturday morning’s third practice session was the catalyst for him qualifying 18th for his home grand prix at Mugello. Rossi was on course to set a top 10 laptime at the end of FP3, but ran off-track as a result of an

Jorge Lorenzo feels team-mate Marc Marquez’s imperious MotoGP form means Honda is reluctant to make changes to its RC213V that may help out other riders. The three-time MotoGP champion replaced a struggling Dani Pedrosa at the Honda works team at the off-season, but has so far struggled to attain results. Marquez, who has given Honda

Marc Marquez secured his fourth pole position of the 2019 MotoGP season, beating Fabio Quartararo by 0.214s at the end of a frenetic qualifying session for the Italian Grand Prix. Reigning champion Marquez established a new lap record at Mugello with his best time of 1m45.519s on his Honda, eclipsing the 1m45.733s set by Quartararo

Ducati works rider Danilo Petrucci topped Saturday morning practice at the Italian Grand Prix with a new fastest-ever MotoGP lap of Mugello. The local hero recorded a 1m46.056s, surpassing the previous record held by Valentino Rossi, while both Rossi and Petrucci’s teammate Andrea Dovizioso ended up missing the cut for automatic progression to Q2. Despite

Former Honda rider Dani Pedrosa will get his first full-blown test with KTM’s 2019 MotoGP bike at Brno next week, Autosport has learned. Pedrosa opted to retire from grand prix racing last year, having been part of the works Honda MotoGP team since 2006, before accepting an offer to join KTM in a test capacity.

Pol Espargaro says KTM’s MotoGP engine is now stronger than that of Yamaha, after he passed Valentino Rossi “like he was stopped” during Friday practice at Mugello. After securing KTM’s best dry-weather MotoGP result with sixth at Le Mans, Espargaro maintained that strong form by finishing fourth in second practice for the Italian Grand Prix.

Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez topped the first practice session for the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello ahead of Ducati’s Danilo Petrucci. Honda’s Marquez set his best lap – a 1m47.558s – just 10 minutes into the 45-minute session. In doing so he improved on the 1m47.804s set by Ducati tester Michele Pirro, who is

Leading MotoGP riders have called for modifications to be made to Mugello’s famous start/finish straight to improve safety, as racing speeds continue to increase. Ducati tester Michele Pirro’s huge practice crash at the Italian Grand Prix venue last year led to numerous riders renewing criticism of the track’s first corner, San Donato, which riders approach

Jorge Lorenzo says dealing with his MotoGP struggles at Honda is more difficult than it was during his Ducati spell. Lorenzo’s best result in 2019 was 11th at Le Mans and he said it was “encouraging” to match the pace of the Honda satellite bikes, having left Jerez “sad” and “worried”. The three-time champion’s 2019

Pramac Ducati rider Jack Miller says Marc Marquez’s “mistake management” is a major asset in the reigning MotoGP champion’s armoury. Marquez has emerged as the early favourite for the 2019 premier-class riders’ title, and leads the standings after winning three of the first five races. Miller battled with Marquez for the lead in the early

The Pramac MotoGP team has been in contact with Moto2 frontrunner Alex Marquez, as it faces a conundrum over the specifications of the Ducati bikes it will run in 2020. The Italian satellite outfit currently runs a factory-specification Desmosedici GP19 for Jack Miller and a year-old GP18 for rookie Francesco Bagnaia in the premier class.

Ducati’s sporting director Paolo Ciabatti says the team’s early worries over Danilo Petrucci have now been eased, as it nears decision time for its 2020 MotoGP line-up. Unlike team-mate Andrea Dovizioso, works team newcomer Petrucci has a contract that runs out at the end of the year. His former Pramac Ducati team-mate Jack Miller is