Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso said his last-lap defeat by Marc Marquez in MotoGP’s Thailand Grand Prix happened because he had not been able to judge his rival’s weak points. MotoGP’s first-ever race at Buriram was the fourth time in the last 14 months that

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez took victory in MotoGP’s inaugural Thailand Grand Prix, passing chief rival Andrea Dovizioso on the final lap to take a step closer to the 2018 championship crown. In a reversal of their memorable Austrian GP duel from last year, Dovizioso

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki MotoGP rider Andrea Iannone reckons Marc Marquez and Andrea Dovizioso can beat the rest of the field by half a lap in the Thailand Grand Prix as they have a big advantage in race pace. Honda rider Marquez and Ducati’s Dovizioso

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow was perplexed by a much improved Yamaha during the Thailand Grand Prix weekend, finding the sudden step forward “really strange”. Yamaha has yet to win a race this season and has in particular struggled in recent races, having

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez fought his way through Q1 to secure pole position for MotoGP’s inaugural race in Thailand, beating Valentino Rossi by just a hundredth of a second. Honda rider Marquez was forced into the first part of qualifying after a crash during

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso remained on top in third practice for MotoGP’s Thailand race, as Marc Marquez crashed and consigned himself to a place in the first part of qualifying. After setting the pace in Friday’s second session, Dovizioso was again fastest on Saturday

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo has decided to sit out the Thailand MotoGP race, and could miss the following round in Japan due to injuries sustained in his nasty practice crash. Lorenzo announced earlier this week he would attempt to compete in the inaugural race

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo says he is leaning towards sitting out the Thailand MotoGP race after a “scary” crash in Friday practice. Lorenzo high-sided off his Ducati Desmosedici GP18 in the second practice session, and was taken to hospital afterwards. The Spaniard,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Even though the MotoGP title is almost in Marc Marquez’s hands, in Thailand, Ducati will face a track that will demonstrate whether the Desmosedici is the best bike on the grid – whichever circuit it faces. During pre-season testing, MotoGP riders got

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi says he does not know where Yamaha’s improved pace in the opening day of the Thailand Grand Prix came from. Rossi and team-mate Maverick Vinales filled the top two spots in the first practice session and Vinales

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales topped first practice for the inaugural Thailand Grand Prix at Buriram, heading team-mate Valentino Rossi by just under three tenths of a second. Times quickly tumbled in the opening part of the 45-minute session as the new-for-2018

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says it is “difficult to continue” if Yamaha maintains its poor form during the next two years of his contract with the MotoGP manufacturer. Yamaha is undergoing its longest-ever winless streak in MotoGP with no sign of the run ending

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo says he still blames Honda’s Marc Marquez for the Aragon crash that left him injured, despite praising his MotoGP rival for getting in touch after the incident. Lorenzo crashed out on the opening lap of the Aragon race after a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo has little doubt his former team Yamaha will return to the front of the MotoGP field because of the championship’s “cyclical” nature. Lorenzo won three premier-class titles for Yamaha before leaving the manufacturer to join Ducati at the end of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia MotoGP rider Scott Redding will switch to the domestic British Superbike Championship next year. The 25-year-old, who will lose his Aprilia ride to Andrea Iannone, will join forces with the Paul Bird Motorsport-run Be Wiser Ducati outfit. “It’s fantastic to be

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda needs to make its MotoGP bike more user-friendly in case Marc Marquez decides to move on at the end of his contract, LCR rider Cal Crutchlow says. The RC213V bike has been a stronger package this year than in 2017 and

Injured MotoGP rider Tito Rabat has been unsuccessful in his bid to return for this weekend’s Thailand Grand Prix at Buriram, with Jordi Torres continuing to fill in. Rabat was seriously injured during the British GP weekend a month ago and has missed the last two races. Though aimed to return for Thailand, despite being

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danilo Petrucci says remarks made by Jorge Lorenzo in the Italian media concerning his promotion to a factory Ducati MotoGP seat in 2019 are upsetting. Petrucci will step up from his satellite Pramac Ducati ride to race for the factory team next

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo will attempt to race in the Thailand MotoGP round, but only if he does not feel too much pain during practice. The Spaniard dislocated a toe and fractured the second metatarsal on his right foot in a heavy

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi has revealed he has tried a version of the 2019 Yamaha MotoGP engine in testing and was underwhelmed by it. The Italian rider was speaking after finishing eighth in last weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix, a race that marked Yamaha’s longest-ever

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aleix Espargaro says his Aprilia MotoGP team is “clever enough” not to be fooled by his surprise sixth place finish in the Aragon Grand Prix. Espargaro and Aprilia have endured a tough year, and after qualifying 13th in Aragon the rider admitted

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 rider Johann Zarco believes there is “no solution” to Yamaha’s recent MotoGP problems following another dismal showing for the brand in the Aragon Grand Prix. Yamaha’s winless streak in MotoGP is now up to 23 races, and it has failed to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The incident between Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez at the Aragon Grand Prix foreshadows the kind of tense atmosphere that could exist at the Honda MotoGP team in 2019. Lorenzo’s anger with Marquez after he suffered a high-side on Sunday at the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo is in doubt for the Thailand Grand Prix after a heavy high-side crash on the opening lap at Aragon. Lorenzo dislocated a toe and fractured the second metatarsal on his right foot in the crash, and quickly

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A “really disappointed” Maverick Vinales says Yamaha’s performance in MotoGP’s Aragon race shows that the team has gone backwards in recent weeks. Yamaha has conducted private tests at both Misano and Aragon in recent weeks, and while it showed promise during the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso says fighting for MotoGP victory at Aragon was “even more important” than his win in the Misano race that preceded it. Despite the circuit’s 968-metre back straight that should play to Ducati’s straighline speed strength, the manufacturer’s form

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says he hopes Yamaha’s new record run without a MotoGP victory will prompt a response from the manufacturer after a dismal Aragon weekend. After recording his equal-worst ever qualifying on Saturday, Rossi made up nine places from his grid slot

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo has hit out at MotoGP rival Marc Marquez for “destroying” his race and causing the foot injury he sustained in his first-corner crash at Aragon. Lorenzo started the Aragon race from pole and was ahead entering the Turn 1 left-hander

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP Aragon race winner Marc Marquez said a tyre choice gamble was the “only chance” he had of beating Andrea Dovizioso. The majority of the MotoGP field, including Marquez, used the hard rear tyre in FP4 on the tyre-critical circuit – indicating

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez consolidated his position at the head of the MotoGP standings after getting the better of main title rival Andrea Dovizioso to win a thrilling Aragon race. Honda rider Marquez passed Dovizioso with three laps remaining at one of his strongest