Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Championship leader Marc Marquez says he adopted a different strategy of trying to pull away early during MotoGP’s Austria race in an attempt to separate the factory Ducatis. Starting from pole at the Red Bull Ring, Marquez fought off early challenges from

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso believes his shot at winning the 2018 MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix was compromised by using up his rear tyre “too much” while trying to pass team-mate Jorge Lorenzo. An aggressive move from Marc Marquez at Turn 3 on the opening

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati’s Jorge Lorenzo took his third victory of the 2018 MotoGP season after outduelling Honda rider Marc Marquez at the Red Bull Ring. Starting from pole, Marquez gave up the lead to Andrea Dovizioso at the start and when he fought back

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow has heavily criticised MotoGP race direction for its work throughout the Austrian Grand Prix, saying it has mishandled dangerous situations. Crutchlow was one of a number of riders to express concerns about riding the Red Bull Ring circuit in the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM has announced that it will replace the injured Mika Kallio with former test rider Randy de Puniet for the rest of 2018. Kallio has been KTM’s test rider since the Austrian manufacturer entered MotoGP last year, but the Finn injured his

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo says a “misunderstanding” that meant he did not use a new MotoGP front tyre on his final qualifying run cost him the chance to grab pole in Austria. Lorenzo battled for top spot with factory Ducati team-mate Andrea Dovizioso and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP project leader Kouji Tsuya has apologised to Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales after a low-key qualifying in Austria. Vinales was more than a second off the pace in 11th, while Rossi was unable to advance from Q1 and will only

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda rider Marc Marquez secured pole position for MotoGP’s Austrian Grand Prix, beating Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso by 0.002s. Valentino Rossi will start Sunday’s race from 14th after failing to escape Q1. At a track where top speed and acceleration are crucial, Ducati

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix will be the hardest of the MotoGP season for Yamaha, owing to the circuit’s layout. Rossi was only 11th fastest in Friday’s first practice session at the Red Bull Ring, a second off the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The KTM MotoGP team admits it will “have a problem” replacing Pol Espargaro for the British Grand Prix should he not recover from injury in time. Espargaro suffered a collarbone fracture in a warm-up crash at Brno, the incident initially leaving him

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP points leader Marc Marquez led Aprilia rider Scott Redding in a wet second practice session in Austria. orrential rain hit the track a few minutes before the start of FP2, which led to the session being delayed by 15 minutes. It

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales says the decision to dispense with crew chief Ramon Forcada at the end of the 2018 season was not made solely by him. Vinales was at the centre of controversy in Brno last weekend as he announced

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo believes Ducati would need to make an “impossible” gain of “two or three tenths” for its riders to challenge Marc Marquez for the 2018 MotoGP title. Lorenzo followed team-mate Andrea Dovizioso home in a Ducati 1-2 at Brno, and the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaro believes MotoGP’s “super stressful” current calendar is unsustainable, as he predicts riders won’t be able to emulate Valentino Rossi in stretching their careers to their 40s. The yearly premier-class schedule had been made up of between 16 and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati will not prevent Jorge Lorenzo from testing for Honda in the official sessions that follow the MotoGP season finale in November, Autosport has learned. Lorenzo’s Ducati contract does not expire until December 31 this year, but he will be permitted to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha needs to adopt a more aggressive approach with its electronics in a bid to catch up with MotoGP rivals Honda and Ducati, says Valentino Rossi. Seven-time premier class champion Rossi identified electronics as a weakness of the 2018 Yamaha in pre-season

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM is targeting Dani Pedrosa for a MotoGP test role in 2019, Autosport understands. Pedrosa announced last month that the 2018 season will be his last in grand prix motorcycle racing and Jorge Lorenzo has been signed to replace him at the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez says some of the Honda parts he sampled in Monday’s Brno MotoGP test helped “solve problems” he has experienced in recent races. The factory Honda rider topped the timesheets at the Czech circuit, a day after finishing third behind Ducati

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says the Mexico City Formula 1 circuit is too “dangerous” for MotoGP and that racing there next season “is not a good idea”. Mexico emerged last weekend as a strong contender to host a MotoGP event in 2019, a move

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM MotoGP rider Pol Espargaro will not take part in this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix after breaking a collarbone in a crash at Brno last weekend. Espargaro was forced to sit out the Czech Grand Prix on Sunday after his accident in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez topped MotoGP’s post-Czech Grand Prix test at Brno ahead of Johann Zarco, with the Honda rider trying a new prototype bike during the day. The majority of the eight-hour test was led by one of the two factory Ducati riders,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The current confusion within Yamaha while managing Maverick Vinales’ box is the best proof of the rider’s power in MotoGP. Leaving aside races and final results, one of the main points of interest of this weekend’s Czech Grand Prix was Vinales’ box.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM says its “disaster” on Sunday at Brno marked the “worst day” since the start of the Austrian marque’s MotoGP project. Pol Espargaro’s warm-up crash, in which the Spanish rider broke his collarbone, reduced KTM’s presence to just one bike in Sunday’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brno MotoGP race winner Andrea Dovizioso says his “strange” pace at the head of the race was a deliberate attempt to break up the pack behind him. Dovizioso led all but three laps of the Czech Grand Prix, but ran an initial

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda MotoGP wildcard Stefan Bradl has been blamed for causing the three-bike collision on the opening lap of the Czech Grand Prix, which Jack Miller called a “nasty little crash”. Bradl collided with Maverick Vinales and Bradley Smith at Turn 3, resulting

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso scored his first MotoGP victory in five months by coming out on top in a three-way fight against Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez in the Czech Grand Prix. Ducati rider Dovizioso expertly fended off attacks from both Marquez and Lorenzo

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha has prevented Maverick Vinales from responding to the claims of his MotoGP crew chief Ramon Forcada that the rider had not informed him of their impending split. Vinales told the media on Friday at Brno that he will end his relationship

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Factory Ducati riders Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo plan to use the team’s new aerodynamic fairing in Sunday’s MotoGP Czech Grand Prix at Brno. Pramac Ducati rider Danilo Petrucci was first to test the new fairing, which features a slimmer pair of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso took pole position for MotoGP’s Czech Grand Prix, beating Valentino Rossi by two tenths in a thrilling pole shootout at Brno. Dovizioso, using the latest-spec aero fairing on his Ducati, leapt from eighth to the top of the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says it is “better late than never” for Yamaha to create a European test team, after the Japanese manufacturer confirmed it will do so in 2019. Yamaha team manager Massimo Meregalli said at Brno on Friday the marque is pushing