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2024 Cremona World Superbike Superpole Race Result: Tyre Choice For The Podium
2024 Cremona World Superbike Superpole Race Result: Tyre Choice For The Podium
The morning's Superpole race had a grid where everyone started where they qualified, all penalties being served yesterday. A couple of purple Q stickers were spotted on front row tyres with the rest using X tyres. A cooler 20ºC morning for ten laps of racing round the shortest track of the year.
Jared Earle Sun, 22/Sep/2024 - 09:24
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2024 Emilia-Romagna Moto3 Race Result: Retaliation Accomplished
2024 Emilia-Romagna Moto3 Race Result: Retaliation Accomplished
Results and summary of the Moto3 race at Misano:
Zara Daniela Sun, 22/Sep/2024 - 09:07
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2024 Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Warm Up Result: Bastianini Steals A Headline
2024 Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Warm Up Result: Bastianini Steals A Headline
Results:
Zara Daniela Sun, 22/Sep/2024 - 07:06
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2024 Cremona World Supersport Race One Result: No Points? Race For Grid Position
2024 Cremona World Supersport Race One Result: No Points? Race For Grid Position
World Supersport continues its close championship under a 25ºC Italian sun, visiting Cremona for the first time.
Jared Earle Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 14:19
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2024 Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Sprint Result: Some Semblance Of A Victory Battle
2024 Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Sprint Result: Some Semblance Of A Victory Battle
Results and summary of the MotoGP sprint at Misano:
Zara Daniela Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 13:44
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2024 Cremona World Superbike Race One Result: Weirdest Red Flag Ever
2024 Cremona World Superbike Race One Result: Weirdest Red Flag Ever
Toprak Razgatlioglu's replacement Markus Reiterberger was sent to the back of the grid and handed a double long lap penalty for dragging a new engine out of BMW's reserve, falling on his sword for Toprak Razgatlioglu and ending the fears of the German marque running out of engine allocation. 24ºC weather welcomed the riders to the first ever World Superbike race at the Cremona track. Local police are not used to big events, in spite of a capacity limit at the small facility, and Motomatters has heard that they were inexplicably confiscating water bottles off visitors yesterday.
Jared Earle Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 12:45
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MotoGP news - Autosport
Why Marquez is willing to crash to improve his pace on Ducati MotoGP bike
Gresini rider Marc Marquez says he doesn’t mind crashing often in qualifying sessions as it is important for him to learn new things and improve his pace on Ducati’s MotoGP bike.Marquez lost control of his GP23 prototype into Turn 3 with a little under 10 minutes to go into Q2, forcing him to dash to the pitlane and hop on his second bike - which he had already shunted in final practice ...Keep reading
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MotoGP Emilia Romagna GP: Bagnaia closes points gap to Martin with sprint win
Francesco Bagnaia emerged on top in a thrilling duel with Jorge Martin to take victory in the sprint for MotoGP’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.Ducati’s Bagnaia made a slow launch after qualifying on pole, but showed scintillating pace to overtake Pramac rival Martin for the lead on lap 8 of 13 and score another crucial win over his title rival.It was Bagnaia’s first sprint success since the ...Keep reading
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2024 Cremona World Superbike Superpole Result: Yellow Flags, Penalties And Missing Riders
2024 Cremona World Superbike Superpole Result: Yellow Flags, Penalties And Missing Riders
After an injury-filled weekend in France, World Superbike misses Championship leader Toprak Razgatlioglu and six time world champion Jonathan Rea. Reigning world champion Alvaro Bautista is carrying an injury this weekend, opening up the chances for others to take control of the races, but both Remy Gardner and Danilo Petrucci have lost three places in the first race for slow riding on the racing line yesterday to make their job a little harder.
Jared Earle Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 09:20
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2023 Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Free Practice 2 Result: Acosta Sneaks Ahead Of Quartararo
2023 Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Free Practice 2 Result: Acosta Sneaks Ahead Of Quartararo
The final practice session for the premier class was a reasonably contested one, although Friday’s benchmark was never under threat as the usual suspects, plus Fabio Quartararo, battled for top spot through the wall of insects that has swarmed Misano. In the end it was Pedro Acosta who went quickest on his final flying lap, getting ahead of Quartararo by a mere four thousandths of a second.
Zara Daniela Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 08:50
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2024 Emilia-Romagna Moto3 Practice 2 Result: Muñoz Ends Practice Quickest
2024 Emilia-Romagna Moto3 Practice 2 Result: Muñoz Ends Practice Quickest
Saturday’s action got underway with sun warming up the asphalt, but the lightweight class was not too keen to threaten the combined timesheets early on. The changes at the top of the ranking only started with a handful of minutes left of the session, when first Dani Holgado and then Ivan Ortola took over, only for David Muñoz to swoop in and claim top spot in the final minute of proceedings.
Zara Daniela Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 07:22
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2024 Cremona World Superbike FP2 Result: Alex Lowes Ends Day On Top
2024 Cremona World Superbike FP2 Result: Alex Lowes Ends Day On Top
After conditions improved from this morning's session, Alex Lowes took the top spot with Danilo Petrucci under a tenth of a second off the best lap. Unlike this morning's session, everyone managed to record a lap.
Results:
Jared Earle Fri, 20/Sep/2024 - 17:15
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2024 Cremona World Supersport FP1 Result: Huertas And Caricasulo Top Dodgy Session
2024 Cremona World Supersport FP1 Result: Huertas And Caricasulo Top Dodgy Session
In another tricky session, Adrian Huertas came out on top with Federico Caricasulo within a tenth of a second of his best time.
Results:
Jared Earle Fri, 20/Sep/2024 - 16:43
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Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Friday Round Up: Bagnaia vs Martin, Cold Tire Crashes, Michelin Delay, And Yamaha's New Hope
Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Friday Round Up: Bagnaia vs Martin, Cold Tire Crashes, Michelin Delay, And Yamaha's New Hope
The return to Misano has been a return to the current Natural Order in MotoGP. Despite a damp start in the morning, by the afternoon, the timesheet gave a very clear picture of the lie of the land. I will let Marc Márquez explain.
"We know that always in the Covid times, the second GP [at the same track] was always super tight. And in fact everything is very tight, everything is fast, everybody is fast," the Gresini Ducati rider told us.
But that closeness belied the fact that there are two riders who are a cut above the rest at the moment. "It's true that when it's better grip conditions, the pattern of this year is it looks like Martin and Bagnaia do a step, and in fact today, they were much faster than us."
A cut above
The timesheets bear this out. On Friday afternoon, Pecco Bagnaia did a lap of 1'30.902 on a set of medium tires which had 14 laps on them, just over half race distance. Jorge Martin did a 1'30.844 on a set with 12 laps on them.
Nobody else got close. Marc Márquez did a 1'31.3. Enea Bastianini a 1'31.4. Maverick Viñales did a pair of 1'31.6s, and Pedro Acosta matched that on a used soft rear. Bagnaia and Martin have four tenths on the rest of the field, and will be battling for victory at the head of the field. There will be a larger group behind fighting over the last place on the podium, most likely with Marc Márquez at their head.
David Emmett Fri, 20/Sep/2024 - 22:38
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Power Politics: Why MotoGP Will Not Get A New Front Tire In 2025
Power Politics: Why MotoGP Will Not Get A New Front Tire In 2025
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Michelin will not be introducing a new front tire at for the 2025 season. At a breakfast organized for the media at Misano on Friday morning, Michelin's head of two-wheeled motorsport, Piero Taramasso explained that although the feedback from the tire test at Misano had been positive, the tire still needed work to be ready.
Taramasso later explained to Simon Crafar on the MotoGP.com live feed some of the background to the test. The test had been good, and the comments of all of the riders had been the same. "For example, they said, yeah, the tire has more grip, we feel more contact patch, but the bike is heavy," Taramasso told Crafar. "They said the tire, we feel a good potential, we can push, but it moves too much. The movement is good, because it gives feedback, but it moves too much when you try to brake hard." Some riders liked the new front, others liked it less, and others were caught in between.
David Emmett Fri, 20/Sep/2024 - 16:10
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2024 Moto3 Championship Standings After Round 14, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
2024 Moto3 Championship Standings After Round 14, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Moto3 standings after Misano:
Zara Daniela Sun, 22/Sep/2024 - 09:12
Round Number
14
Year
2024
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MotoGP Emilia Romagna GP: Bastianini takes controversial win, Bagnaia crashes
Enea Bastianini barged past Jorge Martin on the final lap to take a controversial win in the MotoGP Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, while Francesco Bagnaia crashed out.Pramac rival Martin had been successfully absorbing pressure from Bastianini's factory Ducati, until the Italian sent his bike up the inside into Turn 4 with the chequered flag in sight.Martin was forced off the track and raised his hand ...Keep reading
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Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Saturday Round Up: Bagnaia vs Martin Redux, Rocket Starts, And Track vs Grip
Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Saturday Round Up: Bagnaia vs Martin Redux, Rocket Starts, And Track vs Grip
The problem with having two races at the same track within a couple of weeks of each other is that by the time the riders line up for the start of the second race, the bikes are so dialed in that it is hard to make much of a difference. Each team and rider has reached the level they are at, and the result shows it. Second races tend to be a bit of a bore.
Doubly so at a track like Misano. "This track, it's particularly difficult to overtake, sincerely," Luca Marini told us after spending the second half of the race stuck behind Jack Miller. And so the result of Saturday's sprint race was a very close reflection of the qualifying results.
If you check the lap chart PDF on the MotoGP.com website, you can see that of the top ten, six riders finished the race in the position they crossed the line at the end of the first lap. And of the four that didn't, Pedro Acosta got past Brad Binder for fifth on lap 2, and Pecco Bagnaia passed Jorge Martin for the lead on lap 7.
Close, but no cigar
It would be harsh to call the sprint race at Misano 2 tedious. It had tension, but for the most part, that tension went unfulfilled. It felt like something might happen throughout the race. But in the end, very little did.
David Emmett Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 23:22
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2024 MotoGP Championship Standings After Round 14 Sprint, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
2024 MotoGP Championship Standings After Round 14 Sprint, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
MotoGP standings after Emilia-Romagna sprint:
Zara Daniela Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 13:51
Round Number
14
Year
2024
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2024 Emilia-Romagna Moto3 Qualifying Result: A Late Surprise Rewards A Maiden Poleman
2024 Emilia-Romagna Moto3 Qualifying Result: A Late Surprise Rewards A Maiden Poleman
Results and summary of qualifying for the Moto3 class at Misano:
Zara Daniela Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 11:49
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2024 Emilia-Romagna Moto2 Qualifying Result: New Record, Same Record Holder
2024 Emilia-Romagna Moto2 Qualifying Result: New Record, Same Record Holder
Results and summary of qualifying for the Moto2 class at Misano:
Zara Daniela Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 12:43
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Martin: Dash message distraction led to Misano sprint-losing error
Pramac MotoGP rider Jorge Martin says the error that cost him victory in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix sprint was caused by him being distracted by a message on his dashboard.Championship leader Martin had shot to the lead at the start with a brilliant launch from second position, overtaking the factory Ducati of polesitter and title rival Francesco Bagnaia.Despite Bagnaia breathing down om him in ...Keep reading
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2024 Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Qualifying Result: No Surprises Here
2024 Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Qualifying Result: No Surprises Here
Results and summary of qualifying for the MotoGP class at Misano:
Zara Daniela Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 09:47
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2024 Cremona World Superbike FP3 Result: Iannone Tops Morning Session
2024 Cremona World Superbike FP3 Result: Iannone Tops Morning Session
Andrea Iannone set a late fast lap to head the last practice session before Superpole qualifying.
Results:
Jared Earle Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 09:00
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2024 Emilia-Romagna Moto2 Practice 2 Result: Canet Improves Lap Record
2024 Emilia-Romagna Moto2 Practice 2 Result: Canet Improves Lap Record
The improved conditions on Saturday morning allowed a new all-time lap record to be set in the intermediate class in the final handful of minutes of P2, when Aron Canet took over the top of the timing screens. His record time could not be matched, and the Spaniard started the day at the top of the timing screens, albeit only one hundredth of a second faster than Filip Salac. Friday’s leader stayed in the top three, Tony Arbolino two tenths slower than his teammate.
Zara Daniela Sat, 21/Sep/2024 - 08:05
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Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Friday Round Up: Bagnaia vs Martin, Cold Tire Crashes, Michelin Delay, And Yamaha's New Hope
Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Friday Round Up: Bagnaia vs Martin, Cold Tire Crashes, Michelin Delay, And Yamaha's New Hope
The return to Misano has been a return to the current Natural Order in MotoGP. Despite a damp start in the morning, by the afternoon, the timesheet gave a very clear picture of the lie of the land. I will let Marc Márquez explain.
"We know that always in the Covid times, the second GP [at the same track] was always super tight. And in fact everything is very tight, everything is fast, everybody is fast," the Gresini Ducati rider told us.
But that closeness belied the fact that there are two riders who are a cut above the rest at the moment. "It's true that when it's better grip conditions, the pattern of this year is it looks like Martin and Bagnaia do a step, and in fact today, they were much faster than us."
A cut above
The timesheets bear this out. On Friday afternoon, Pecco Bagnaia did a lap of 1'30.902 on a set of medium tires which had 14 laps on them, just over half race distance. Jorge Martin did a 1'30.844 on a set with 12 laps on them.
Nobody else got close. Marc Márquez did a 1'31.3. Enea Bastianini a 1'31.4. Maverick Viñales did a pair of 1'31.6s, and Pedro Acosta matched that on a used soft rear. Bagnaia and Martin have four tenths on the rest of the field, and will be battling for victory at the head of the field. There will be a larger group behind fighting over the last place on the podium, most likely with Marc Márquez at their head.
David Emmett Fri, 20/Sep/2024 - 22:38
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2024 Cremona World Supersport Superpole Result: A Third Of A Second Covers The Front Row
2024 Cremona World Supersport Superpole Result: A Third Of A Second Covers The Front Row
After a red-flagged session, with lots of yellow flags to make it even flaggier, the front row was covered by just a third of a second.
Jared Earle Fri, 20/Sep/2024 - 18:28
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MotoGP Emilia Romagna GP: Bagnaia beats Martin to pole, Marquez seventh
Francesco Bagnaia beat MotoGP championship leader Jorge Martin by 0.214s to claim pole position for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.Factory Ducati rider Bagnaia trailed Pramac rival Martin by over three tenths of a second after the first runs as the Spaniard broke the circuit lap record with a 1m30.245s.However, after returning to the track on a new soft rear tyre, two-time champion Bagnaia managed ...Keep reading
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2024 Cremona World Supersport Superpole Result: A Third Of A Second Covers The Front Row
2024 Cremona World Supersport Superpole Result: A Third Of A Second Covers The Front Row
After a red-flagged session, with lots of yellow flags to make it even flaggier, the front row was covered by just a third of a second.
Adrian Huertas held off Stefano Manzi and Yari Montella to make up the front row with Federico Caricasulo leading the second row alongside John McPhee and Marcel Schroetter. The thirs row was made up of Lucas Mahias, Can Oncu and Valentin Debise.
Results:
Jared Earle Fri, 20/Sep/2024 - 18:28
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2024 Cremona World Superbike FP2 Result: Alex Lowes Ends Day On Top
2024 Cremona World Superbike FP2 Result: Alex Lowes Ends Day On Top
After conditions improved from this morning's session, Alex Lowes took the top spot with Danilo Petrucci under a tenth of a second off the best lap. Unlike this morning's session, everyone managed to record a lap.
Results:
Jared Earle Fri, 20/Sep/2024 - 17:15
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