Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romano Fenati’s Moto2 team Marinelli Snipers has announced that it will be terminating its deal with the rider following his actions in the Misano race. Fenati tried to grab current Forward rider Stefano Manzi’s brake lever during the race i n a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romano Fenati’s actions during the Moto2 race at Misano warranted a lifetime ban, according to MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow. Fenati, who rides for the Marinelli Snipers team, was black-flagged for grabbing rival Stefano Manzi’s brake lever on the back straight, shortly after

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romano Fenati’s actions during the Moto2 race at Misano warranted a lifetime ban, according to MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow. Fenati, who rides for the Marinelli Snipers team, was black-flagged for grabbing rival Stefano Manzi’s brake lever on the back straight, shortly after

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo says he puts his crash in MotoGP’s San Marino Grand Prix down to his choice of the “rock”-like medium front tyre. Ducati rider Lorenzo slipped out of contention for a podium finish when he lost the front end of his

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez says he was “fighting against myself” during the closing stages of the San Marino Grand Prix, as he sought to overhaul Jorge Lorenzo for second place. Marquez and Lorenzo spent much of the Misano race locked in a battle for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP’s new all-electric support class MotoE has unveiled a five-round calendar for its inaugural season in 2019. The first-ever MotoE campaign will kick off at Jerez in May and will also support the French Grand Prix at Le Mans that same month.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pramac Ducati rider Jack Miller can be MotoGP champion “within three years” if he’s “clever” about his approach to racing, former team-mate Cal Crutchlow believes. Miller, who partnered Crutchlow at LCR Honda in his rookie MotoGP season in 2015, put a year-old

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says he needs to find an extra two tenths of a second per lap to be able to finish on the podium in Sunday’s Misano MotoGP race. The Yamaha rider, who was forced to skip the event last year due

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Johann Zarco and Jack Miller were first and second in the damp third MotoGP practice session at Misano, with both riders earning a spot in Q2 as a result. The session started in damp conditions, and most of the field decided to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow has hit out at Avintia for handing Christophe Ponsson his MotoGP debut at Misano, after the debutant languished off Friday’s practice pace. Ponsson, who currently races in the Spanish Superstock 1000 series, was chosen by Avintia to stand in for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 MotoGP team principal Herve Poncharal has criticised his rider Hafizh Syahrin for running over 10 seconds off the pace during San Marino Grand Prix practice at Misano. Rookie Syahrin ended both Friday sessions in 25th, only ahead of MotoGP debutant Christophe

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP boss Carmelo Ezpeleta has indicated he is willing to enforce delaying races until Monday if necessary in future, in the wake of last month’s British Grand Prix being cancelled. Delaying the doomed Silverstone race by a day Monday was one option

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo has criticised MotoGP rivals Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez for their continued feud, likening Rossi’s behaviour to that of a “little child”. Rossi courted controversy in the pre-event press conference for this weekend’s Misano MotoGP round by refusing to shake

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi caused a stir in the pre-event press conference for this weekend’s Misano MotoGP race by refusing to shake hands with arch-rival Marc Marquez. Rossi and Marquez have been bitter enemies since their on-track clash at Sepang in 2015, which stemmed

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two-time MotoGP champion Casey Stoner says he is unlikely to continue in his current test role with Ducati because it does not use his feedback. Autosport reported last month that the 32-year-old, who walked away from a full-time MotoGP ride in 2012

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM MotoGP rider Pol Espargaro is set to return for this weekend’s San Marino Grand Prix after a three-race injury break. Espargaro broke his left collarbone in a crash during the Sunday warm-up at Brno and had to sit out that weekend’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Avintia Ducati MotoGP outfit has signed Czech rider Karel Abraham on a two-year deal. Abraham, 28, has competed in MotoGP’s premier class intermittently since 2011 and has spend the past two seasons competing for Nieto Ducati. But Nieto will give up

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. French rider Christophe Ponsson will make his MotoGP debut at Misano this weekend after he was picked by the Avintia Ducati squad to replace the injured Tito Rabat. Rabat was hit by the Marc VDS Honda of Franco Morbidelli in a pile-up

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new SIC Yamaha MotoGP team running an ‘A-spec’ bike next season for Franco Morbidelli represents a “win-win” situation for the manufacturer, believes Yamaha boss Lin Jarvis. It was revealed last month at Silverstone that the Petronas-backed SIC outfit, which replaces the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP has issued a 19-round provisional calendar for the 2019 season that features no changes of venue compared to this year’s schedule. Efforts by series promoter Dorna to add a 20th race to the calendar in Mexico were abandoned, largely due to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Avintia Ducati MotoGP rider Tito Rabat has described the Silverstone crash in which he was hit by Franco Morbidelli’s bike, saying his leg “twisted like an S” in the impact. Rabat was one of several riders to crash at Stowe corner in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tito Rabat has been transferred from hospital in the UK to Barcelona, where it will be decided if he requires further surgery after his horror Silverstone MotoGP crash last weekend. Avintia Ducati rider Rabat suffered a triple fracture to his right leg

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow admits he is pessimistic about the future of British talent in MotoGP, and can picture a grid devoid of riders from the UK after he stops racing. LCR Honda rider Crutchlow recently secured a one-year extension to his factory contract

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dorna boss Carmelo Ezpeleta has suggested Silverstone must be prepared to resurface its track again to safeguard its MotoGP agreement. The cancellation of last weekend’s race was blamed on the track’s new surface by MotoGP race direction, as it failed to drain

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The “spontaneous” nature of the riders’ meeting in which it was ultimately decided to abandon last weekend’s MotoGP race at Silverstone has been criticised by Ducati. A combination of persistent rain on Sunday and Silverstone’s new track surface failing to properly drain

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Silverstone has launched an independent track investigation and defended its new surface following the cancellation of the MotoGP races last weekend. After several delays and timetable changes caused by heavy rain, the MotoGP race was cancelled at 4pm on Sunday. Several key

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The disastrous race cancellation at Silverstone must be used as an example to avoid MotoGP facing similar situations in the future, says ORIOL PUIGDEMONT The majority of us will agree that the postponement of the Qatar Grand Prix in 2009 due to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIM Safety Officer Franco Uncini claims Silverstone’s new for 2018 track surface has deteriorated considerably since it was first laid after the cancellation of MotoGP’s British Grand Prix. Race director Mike Webb said the fresh asphalt was directly responsible for Sunday’s race

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jack Miller and Johann Zarco were the only MotoGP riders present in an emergency riders’ safety commission at Silverstone who wanted the British Grand Prix to proceed. After hours of delays due to rain – and with the newly relaid Silverstone track

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP race director Mike Webb said the cancellation of the British Grand Prix was because Silverstone’s new-for-2018 asphalt was not safe enough to race under wet conditions. In an attempt to get rid of long-standing bumps and give the circuit layout a