Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia MotoGP rider Aleix Espargaro admits he “just wants this season to finish” after younger brother Pol injured himself again at Aragon. Both Espargaro brothers have missed races through injury this year, but Pol will be skipping his fourth event of 2018

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo was critical of the stop-start pack qualifying at Aragon, comparing it to the Tour de France cycle race. Most riders in the 12-bike pole position shootout session spent the closing minutes coasting on track and looking for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi says the strategy that consigned him to 17th on the grid for the Aragon Grand Prix was his only chance at advancing into the pole shootout. In Q1 Rossi was just fifth and risked not making it

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow has expressed his frustration that Honda is still prioritising the retiring Dani Pedrosa for new parts as the MotoGP season enters its final stages. Pedrosa is quitting the series at the end of year, while Crutchlow has signed an extension

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM rider Pol Espargaro will take no further part in this weekend’s Aragon MotoGP round after fracturing his left collarbone again in a crash on Saturday morning. Espargaro was taken to the medical centre after his fall at the Turn 14/15 left-hander

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha needs a “miracle” to avoid a winless season in MotoGP this year believes Valentino Rossi after a tough opening day of practice for the Aragon Grand Prix. Rossi and his team-mate Maverick Vinales ended Friday’s second practice session ninth and 10th

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP has confirmed a reduced 11-team roster for the 2019 season, with Marc VDS Honda dropping off the entry list. The Marc VDS team was long expected to drop away from the premier class grid following its mid-season intra-team management crisis. It

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romano Fenati has been banned from grand prix motorcycle racing until the end of the 2018 season by the sport’s governing body, the FIM. Marinelli Snipers Moto2 racer Fenati was disqualified and handed a two-race ban after he grabbed Stefano Manzi’s brake

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says he hopes he is proven “wrong” about his pessimism regarding Yamaha’s chances in this weekend’s Aragon MotoGP round. Yamaha is on the cusp of its worst-ever premier class losing streak, as the Aragon Grand Prix would mark the 23rd

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jack Miller says he and fellow MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow were “put in the mud” after Misano wildcard Christophe Ponsson’s recent statement. Ponsson made his MotoGP debut as stand-in for the injured Tito Rabat in the San Marino Grand Prix, and was

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM has confirmed that Mika Kallio will continue as its test rider in the 2019 MotoGP season, despite missing the second half of this year with injury. Kallio has been part of the KTM MotoGP project since its inception. He gave the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow says he needs Honda’s “full support” to take points off the factory Ducatis and aid Marc Marquez’s MotoGP title campaign. Marquez is 67 points clear of his nearest rival, Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso, while Honda also leads the way – albeit

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aleix Espargaro says the Aprilia MotoGP team can now only improve after ‘destroying’ the strengths of its 2017-spec RS-GP. Aprilia has achieved only two top 10 finishes this season, the last of which was scored by Espargaro at Le Mans in May.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Dynavolt Intact GP team has become the first team to sign a rider for the inaugural five-round MotoE season in 2019. The outfit’s sole entry on the 18-bike grid will be ridden by 22-year-old Swiss rider Jesko Raffin. “Right from the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Karel Abraham insists the Avintia Ducati MotoGP team did not choose to sign him until 2020 because of the budget he can bring. Abraham’s future in MotoGP looked uncertain for most of this year’s silly season as the successor to his current

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP’s Aragon Grand Prix this weekend will be a crucial “test” of Ducati’s progress, reckons Andrea Dovizioso. The Motorland circuit has been a Marc Marquez stronghold for the last two years, and was one of Dovizioso’s weakest venues in his 2017 title

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia rider Scott Redding says he must “accept” that his time in MotoGP is over as he continues to weigh up where to race in 2019. It was announced in June that Suzuki rider Andrea Iannone will replace Redding at Aprilia for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Christophe Ponsson says he has been left feeling “disappointment and disgust” after he was denied a second MotoGP outing as Tito Rabat’s stand-in at Avintia Ducati at Aragon. Ponsson made his MotoGP debut at Misano aboard an Avintia Ducati GP16 following Tito

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Superbike racer and Moto2 race winner Jordi Torres will make his MotoGP debut next weekend at Aragon in place of the injured Tito Rabat, replacing controversial stand-in Christophe Ponsson. Torres, 30, currently races for the MV Agusta team in WSBK and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIM has announced that former MotoGP rider Anthony West has been provisionally suspended for a possible doping violation. The 37-year-old Australian, who rides a Kawasaki ZC-6R for his own team EAB Antwest Racing in the World Superbike-supporting World Supersport championship, failed

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 Yamaha rider Johann Zarco says he was having to “fight with my own bike” in last weekend’s Misano MotoGP round as his slump in form continued. Zarco, who was targeting the runner-up position in the championship behind runaway leader Marc Marquez

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez says the timing of Ducati’s upswing in form has been fortunate for his title hopes. The factory Ducati team has now won three MotoGP races in a row, but Jorge Lorenzo’s slow start to 2018 and Andrea

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaro “feels really bad” for Avintia stand-in Christophe Ponsson, whose MotoGP debut at Misano generated controversy. Ponsson (pictured above), a regular in the Spanish CEV Superbike series, joined the Ducati customer team on late notice substituting for the injured

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says his third place in the current MotoGP standings is “miraculous” given Yamaha’s recent struggles. Rossi is winless since last year’s Assen race 14-and-a-half months ago and finished a disappointing seventh last time out at Misano, but remains third in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia’s Scott Redding said he felt like a danger to his fellow MotoGP riders in Misano’s race, which he described as “another punch in the face”. Redding toiled to the chequered flag in 21st, a minute and nine seconds behind race winner

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa will join KTM’s test team in 2019, Autosport has learned. Pedrosa, who will be replaced by Jorge Lorenzo in the factory Honda line-up next year, announced his retirement from full-time MotoGP competition in July. Pedrosa spent his

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MV Agusta has terminated banned Moto2 rider Romano Fenati’s contract for 2019 following the Italian rider’s behaviour in the Misano race on Sunday. Fenati, who received a two-race ban for grabbing Forward Racing rider Stefano Manzi’s brake lever, has already been sacked

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Banned Moto2 rider Romano Fenati has released a statement expressing his regret over his now-infamous attempt to grab rival Stefano Manzi’s brake lever in a Misano race. Fenati’s actions, which came as retribution after Manzi had run him off the track in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow was puzzled by his overtake on Suzuki’s Alex Rins in Misano’s MotoGP race as he had “never known” a rider to surrender a position so easily. Rins, running a soft rear tyre, battled through from 10th to fourth

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The experience of the last two years leads to the conclusion that Ducati is the smartest when it comes to developing its bikes during the MotoGP season. Andrea Dovizioso’s victory on Sunday at Misano had a tremendous symbolic power for many reasons.