Nine-time MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi is proud to bid farewell to his home Misano MotoGP fans with a decent race, Sunday’s ‘Grazie Vale’ tributes a ‘great surprise’. Valentino Rossi passed the last major milestone before the official end of his MotoGP career with an ’emotional’ final home race in Emilia Romagna GP at his…
Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia trailed Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo by 52 points coming into this weekend’s Misano race and only needed to be outscored by three for the championship to go to Quartararo. The Ducati rider led for the first 22 of 27 laps on Sunday from pole and was on course to keep the championship…
six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez tallied up his third win of the 2021 season after inheriting victory when long-time leader Francesco Bagnaia crashed out on lap 23, ending his title hopes. Marquez had shadowed Bagnaia for most of the race, piling the pressure on him as he did at Aragon last month, but had…
Fabio Quartararo has won the 2021 MotoGP World Championship following a crash for Francesco Bagnaia while leading the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, a crash that resulted in Marc Marquez winning his third race of the year. Although Jack Miller got a better launch and was side-by-side with Bagnaia heading into turn one, the Italian was much…
The minimum age to compete in motorcycle grand prix racing will be raised from 16 to 18 for 2023 onwards following changes from the Federation of International Motorcycles (FIM). The raising of the age limit comes following a string of tragic accidents throughout 2021 across the Moto3-based categories as well as the similarly slipstream dependent…
Ducati’s Jack Miller takes over at the top during another wet Friday practice session for the Emilia Romagna MotoGP, the second of this year’s events at Misano. Conditions were at least better than the morning session, with sunshine breaking through the clouds and a dry line starting to develop, prompting riders to switch from the…
Pramac Ducati rider Johann Zarco returns to the top by leading a wet opening practice session for MotoGP’s return to Misano at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, while fellow Ducati rider and title contender Francesco Bagnaia suffered a late fall. Factory Ducati’s Jack Miller led for the majority of the session ahead of factory team-mate…
