A truly emotional effort by Fabio Di Giannantonio at the Italian Grand Prix of the 2025 season of the MotoGP, the Italian clinched a spectacled third-place finish in his home Grand Prix, passing Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia, known as Pecco in the closing moments of the race. The podium of the VR46 Ducati rider was not at any event but at his home track and it was his...
KTM’s upcoming MotoGP season has been met with reactions from insiders and outside the paddock calling it nothing but a disaster. Although it may seem unpleasant, the term is now used by the team’s own cyclists. While talking about recent qualifying, Pedro Acosta clearly said, “It all went wrong.” That tells the whole story. The fact that a manufacturer has been steadily moving forward in the MotoGP is...
After what he called the most difficult race of his career at Silverstone, Enea Bastianini shared his emotions straight away. Debuting at Le Mans, the KTM Tech3 rider from Italy struggled all race and came 17th, not managing to rise above his initial starting position. Plagued by technical difficulties all weekend which kept happening on the bike, Bastianini was left without hope and seeing few results at Silverstone....
Not a soul foretold it—Marco Bezzecchi raced to success at Silverstone with a victory unlikely to be matched in 2025. A rider who didn’t have pole,, riding a factory-fringe Aprilia, faced the cold, used a soft front tyre and lined up behind a group of intense title contenders, but emerged victorious. Things are always unpredictable at Silverstone in August, but this was outrageously unpredictable. Crashes. Red flags. Mechanical...
The trouble has only intensified as the bad Joan Mir 2025 MotoGP season has followed another excruciating crash of the 2020 world champion at French Grand Prix. At Le Mans, Mir was entangled in a disorganized event during the first lap that cost him his right hand, which was broken, and hurt his neck, which caused him pain. What had already been causing a miserable campaign has since...
After a victorious Saturday in the Le Mans Sprint that allowed him to stand on the MotoGP podium, Fermin Aldeguer’s feelings could be summed up in a single word: “experience.” It is a good reflection of the trek that a 20-year-old rookie has taken since his inaugural season in MotoGP. It is as if Aldeguer’s progression follows that of one with a great deal of MotoGP experience from...
Alex Marquez delivered his most emotional MotoGP victory of his career by winning on the track where Jerez hosted his first professional victory in his home country. The triumph brought equal sentimental value to Gresini Ducati rider Alex Marquez as his Moto2 and Moto3 world championship victories did in the early stages of his career. Alex Marquez achieved his first MotoGP triumph during his fifth season in premier...
This Saturday Jorge Martín plans to depart from Doha through medical flight to return home to Spain after enduring eleven traumatic days recovering from his Grand Prix Qatar race accident. The reigning MotoGP world champion found himself in a frightening crash incident which shocked both racing spectators with deep worry. The race lasted only thirteen laps when Martín faced a loss of control resulting in his elevation from...
Controversy surrounded Ducati when its members led a heated MSMA meeting until denying Aprilia permission for Jorge Martin to test privately before his medical recovery. Missed unanimity by Honda manufacturers during the closed MSMA meeting prevented Aprilia and Martin from seeing how fit Martin was before the Qatar GP started. The request which Paolo Bonora and Massimo Rivola from Aprilia presented to MotoGP officials became public when they...
The legendary MotoGP racer Dani Pedrosa announced his plan to return to racing alongside KTM in a scheduled April test at Misano. Prior to his full-time retirement from racing Dani Pedrosa earned 31 grand prix titles then transitioned to KTM’s test riding program before he entered his private speed test at Misano in mid-April. The two-day test period starting between April 8 and ending on April 11 based...