Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez says Andrea Dovizioso is the rider to beat at Brno on the evidence of Friday practice. Dovizioso and Marquez were the only two riders to place in the top 10 in Friday’s combined classification without using a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa set the pace in the second MotoGP practice session at Brno, as a mixed up order left a handful of frontrunners in danger of missing the cut-off for Q2. Pedrosa’s Honda team-mate Marc Marquez was fastest early on, narrowly eclipsing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading MotoGP riders believe the championship should have a longer summer break than this year’s three-week hiatus. The MotoGP season has traditionally featured a break of at least four weeks between the Sachsenring race in July and the Brno race in August,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tensions between Ducati factory riders Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso have flared up once more ahead of MotoGP’s return from its season’s summer break. Lorenzo, who joined the team last year and will leave for Honda in 2019, had accused team-mate Dovizioso

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM test rider Mika Kallio will miss his next planned MotoGP wildcard appearance in Austria after undergoing surgery on his knee. Kallio was taken to hospital after a heavy crash during practice for the last month’s German Grand Prix, and was diagnosed

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda MotoGP boss Alberto Puig says he cannot be sure how long it will take Jorge Lorenzo to adapt next season when he moves to the team from Ducati. Lorenzo will join Honda after two seasons at Ducati, with which he registered

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pramac MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci has revealed he has been trying to emulate Ducati stablemate Jorge Lorenzo’s race starts. Lorenzo has been one of the strongest starters in MotoGP this year, consistently featuring at the sharp end in the opening stages of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP and Silverstone have just signed a contract which will keep the British Grand Prix at Silverstone for the next three years. This year’s race is being held over the August Bank Holiday weekend, and if you needed a better reason than

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow believes his LCR Honda MotoGP team-mate Takaaki Nakagami is doing a better job than he did in his own rookie season. Nakagami graduated from Moto2 this year and enjoyed a strong start to the season with four consecutive points finishes.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says his main concern now is not MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez but just getting back on terms with the resurgent Yamahas of Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales. Last year Dovizioso was Marquez’s main title rival and brought Ducati back

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 Yamaha MotoGP rider Johann Zarco says he “doesn’t want to know” what improvements the factory Yamaha riders have made since the start of the year. Although Yamaha is enduring its worst winless streak of the MotoGP era, works pair Valentino Rossi

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Suzuki MotoGP team wants to lose its concessions “as soon as possible”, according to team boss Davide Brivio. After a 2017 season in which it failed to score a podium finish, Suzuki was given back the technical concessions it lost after

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Managing the relationship between 2019 Honda MotoGP team-mates Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo is likely to be a “challenge”, admits team principal Alberto Puig. Lorenzo will move across from Ducati to replace Dani Pedrosa at the works Honda team next season, giving

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia MotoGP rider Aleix Espargaro has left hospital following his heavy crash in the warm-up for last weekend’s German Grand Prix. Espargaro was forced to miss the Sachsenring race after hitting the fence at Turn 4, escaping fractures but “suffering a bad

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ousted KTM MotoGP rider Bradley Smith says he will turn his focus on returning to the grid in 2020 with opportunities to race next year having all but dried up. Smith will be replaced at KTM next year by Johann Zarco, having

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi has suggested that Yamaha’s MotoGPs engineers have now taken to running away from him as a result of his constant demands for an acceleration breakthrough. The manufacturer enjoyed its best result of the season at the Sachsenring last weekend, scoring

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alvaro Bautista does not know what more he has to do to prove he deserves to stay in MotoGP amid growing signs he is set to exit the championship. Nieto Ducati rider Bautista scored his best result since the June 2017 Mugello

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez earned his ninth triumph in a row at the Sachsenring – a winning streak which makes him King of the Ring. The Sachsenring is a narrow and short track (in fact, the shortest on the MotoGP calendar), so grid position

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Karel Abraham has emerged as the favourite to take Xavier Simeon’s Avintia Ducati seat for the 2019 MotoGP season, Autosport has learned. With the first half of the 2018 MotoGP season coming to an end at the Sachsenring, only two rides, one

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso admits his strategy of deliberately dropping time in two corners during MotoGP’s German Grand Prix in order to save his tyres did not pay off. Dovizioso was seventh after the start of the Sachsenring race and never ran

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha has confirmed that Monster Energy will become its new title sponsor in MotoGP from the 2019 season as part of a new multi-year agreement. As reported by Autosport on Saturday, Monster replaces outgoing sponsor Movistar, which has backed Yamaha’s factory machines

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP’s German Grand Prix is set to remain at the Sachsenring in 2019 despite fears it would be replaced next season, Autosport has learned. Leading MotoGP riders were dismayed by reports the track was poised to lose its slot on the calendar

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM MotoGP rider Pol Espargaro declared himself “super-sorry” for causing the four-way crash on the opening lap of the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring. Espargaro crashed and took Suzuki’s Alex Rins with him at Turn 3, compromising the races of Rins’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Taming the Yamaha MotoGP bike’s “brutal” power delivery will be key to returning it to the front, according to Maverick Vinales. Yamaha’s works riders Valentino Rossi and Vinales finished second and third behind Marc Marquez in Sunday’s German Grand Prix but neither

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez says he expected a sterner challenge from the works Ducatis in the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring. Marquez started the German Grand Prix from pole but gave up the lead to Ducati’s Jorge Lorenzo off the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jack Miller says Pol Espargaro acted “like an idiot” on the first lap of MotoGP’s German Grand Prix, while Suzuki believes the unpunished offence could cause “chaos” in future races. Espargaro clipped the back of Andrea Iannone’s Suzuki while running on the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danilo Petrucci says Ducati stablemate Jorge Lorenzo “was not so clever” in the contact between the two riders late in Turn 1 during the German Grand Prix. The two came to blows at the Turn 1 right-hander, where Lorenzo had adopted a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says he “studied everything” about former Tech 3 Yamaha MotoGP rider Jonas Folger’s runner-up finish in the 2017 German Grand Prix in order to finish second in ’18. Folger, who is absent from the grid this year due to illness,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez kept alive his winning streak at the Sachsenring as he won MotoGP’s German Grand Prix in dominant fashion ahead of Valentino Rossi. The Spaniard won from pole position at the German venue to extend his championship lead to 46 points

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaro will not take part in MotoGP’s German Grand Prix after suffering a major crash during the morning warm-up session. Espargaro was taken to the medical centre and subsequently to hospital in nearby Chemnitz after he hit the air-fence