Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Johann Zarco says his current MotoGP slump in form has made him “sad”, after he failed to advance from Q1 at the Sachsenring. Tech 3 Yamaha rider Zarco was forced into the first part of qualifying after only setting the 15th-fastest time

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez says he will prioritise his title prospects over ensuring he scores a ninth consecutive victory at the Sachsenring. Honda rider Marquez has never lost at the German Grand Prix venue since graduating to the premier class in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Monster Energy is to replace Movistar as the title sponsor of the Yamaha MotoGP team next season and could lead to a livery change, Autosport has learned. Spanish telecoms company Movistar has acted as the principal backer for Yamaha since 2014, but

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow claims the Ducati has become the strongest MotoGP bike at turning after the three GP18s finished Friday’s running at the Sachsenring in the top four. Ducati has traditionally struggled at the German Grand Prix venue, with lead factory rider Andrea

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says his struggles in MotoGP practice at the Sachsenring are related to rear tyre spinning and a lack of traction. The Yamaha rider finished second practice down in 17th place overall, 0.899s down on pacesetter Jorge Lorenzo and 11 places

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi has denied reports linking him with a move for his Yamaha MotoGP team-mate Maverick Vinales’s crew chief Ramon Forcada. Amid tensions between Vinales and Forcada, Spanish media had suggested Rossi wanted to bring Forcada over to his side of the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. From Valentino Rossi to Marc Marquez, MotoGP riders always dream about emulating John Surtees – the only man to win world championships in both motorcycle racing and Formula 1. Surtees passed away when he was 83 years old on the day the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading MotoGP riders believe it would be a “shame” and a “disappointment” to lose the Sachsenring from the 2019 calendar, with the German Grand Prix in danger of being replaced. German motorsport federation ADAC has a contract with Dorna to host the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says it “feels like a lifetime” has passed since the factory Yamaha outfit last won a MotoGP race. Rossi and team-mate Maverick Vinales have repeatedly stated that Yamaha’s electronics remain the manufacturer’s weakness, and the Italian suggested after last month’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning triple World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea says the series needs a “star” from MotoGP to step over to boost its popularity. WSBK has struggled in recent years to attract large crowds to events, despite changes to race formats and the technical

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Malaysian grand prix motorcycle team SIC Racing has secured a place on the MotoGP grid for 2019, taking Ducati satellite outfit Angel Nieto Team’s place on the entry list. SIC Racing will field a pair of Yamahas in the premier class next

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alex Rins feels his first MotoGP victory for Suzuki “will come soon” after he finished second in last weekend’s Dutch TT at Assen. Rins has had an up-and-down 2018 season but says he is gaining experience in each race, helped my recent

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jack Miller has clarified speculation that linked him with a Honda MotoGP ride for 2019, admitting he spoke to the factory squad but never received an offer. Miller’s name was floated during MotoGP’s rider market silly season, having first been considered for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says Ducati’s current biggest issue in MotoGP is maintaining tyre life, as he was “completely f**ked” at the end of last weekend’s Dutch TT. Tyre preservation was a key reason why Dovizioso came close to taking the title last season,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa has announced he has reached a decision regarding his MotoGP future, and will reveal his choice in a press conference at the Sachsenring a week on Thursday. Although Pedrosa has been strongly linked to the new Petronas-backed satellite Yamaha team

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales believes he could still challenge runaway leader Marc Marquez for the 2018 MotoGP title if Yamaha can provide a “big” update after the summer break. Vinales scored only his second podium of 2018 at Assen last weekend, narrowly missing out

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP has announced a stricter set of regulations surrounding the use of aerodynamic fairings for the 2019 season. Since the ban on winglets at the end of the 2016 season, MotoGP manufacturers have experimented with more intricate bodywork in a bid to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow says group races like the multi-rider Assen MotoGP round are a “disaster” for Honda riders because the manufacturer’s bike overheats its front tyre and suffers under acceleration. The LCR rider was in the large lead group – which at one

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa’s current MotoGP struggles stem from a lack of motivation that is making it “impossible” for him to be fast on his Honda, according to team-mate Marc Marquez. Pedrosa, who will be replaced by Jorge Lorenzo at the factory Honda squad

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo says it was “very lucky” neither he or Valentino Rossi crashed after the Yamaha rider rear-ended Lorenzo’s Ducati early on in Sunday’s Assen race. Lorenzo made a fantastic start from 10th to take the lead on the opening lap, which

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi put his failure to score a podium finish in the Dutch TT at Assen down to an over-aggressive move by MotoGP rival Andrea Dovizioso. Rossi was in the thick of the lead group until the start of the penultimate lap. He

MotoGP points leader Marc Marquez said his moment with Maverick Vinales, when they both ran wide and were close to touching the gravel, was the scariest in a “wild” Dutch TT. Marquez and Vinales were part of a thrilling multi-bike fight for the win throughout the entire Dutch TT. The Honda rider, who ended up

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez claimed his fourth victory of the MotoGP season in an epic Dutch TT at Assen, making a late break from a frenetic six-way scrap. Honda rider Marquez’s winning margin of 2.269 seconds did not do justice to how close the

Pol Espargaro says KTM has “hit a wall” with its current specification of MotoGP bike and won’t make progress until its 2019 prototype is used regularly. The Austrian manufacturer suffered a dismal qualifying for the Dutch TT at Assen, with Bradley Smith and Espargaro ending up 20th and 21st respectively. It has been a tough

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Johann Zarco says the Dutch TT is the first MotoGP round where he has been able to overcome the “stress” of crashing out of his home grand prix last month. The Tech3 Yamaha rider started the Le Mans race on pole and

Jorge Lorenzo thought a laptime deletion in Assen MotoGP qualifying explained his fall from provisional pole position to 10th on the grid, with his rivals’ pack-riding ultimately making the difference. Ducati’s Lorenzo briefly went quickest in the closing stages of the pole position shootout for the Dutch TT, although he was soon edged by Andrea

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc VDS Honda MotoGP rider Franco Morbidelli has been ruled out of this weekend’s Dutch TT at Assen after injuring his hand in a practice crash. Morbidelli was taken to the medical centre following a high-speed off during Saturday morning’s third practice

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia MotoGP rider Scott Redding is weighing up an offer to stay on in a test role next year. Redding will lose his race seat to Andrea Iannone next year and has no obvious opportunities to continue in MotoGP full-time. Asked by

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales set the pace in the Friday afternoon MotoGP practice session at Assen, followed by Italian trio Andrea Iannone, Danilo Petrucci and Valentino Rossi. It took Marc Marquez five minutes to beat his own morning benchmark with a 1m34.041s, which

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez led the way in first practice for the Dutch TT at Assen, beating Maverick Vinales by less than two tenths of a second. Marquez spent the early part of Friday morning’s 45-minute session trading the fastest time