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Motegi MotoGP Preview: Martin vs Bagnaia For The Title, Can KTM Disrupt, And Management Reshuffles At KTM And Honda
Motegi MotoGP Preview: Martin vs Bagnaia For The Title, Can KTM Disrupt, And Management Reshuffles At KTM And Honda
It is an unfortunate fact of life that during the months it is warm enough to race at Motegi, there is a very good chance of absolutely torrential rain (see last year, when the GP was red flagged after just 12 laps), and during the months it is dry it is too cold to race. The paradox of a racetrack on an island situated next to a vast ocean. (See also: Phillip Island.)
MotoGP has known torrential rain at Motegi back when it was run during the northern hemisphere spring, and now it is run in October. So rain is likely to fall at some point this weekend, though the forecast at this point in time is for it to fall mostly on Saturday. Whether that is just overnight, or during the sprint race we will see when the time comes.
Rain isn't the only issue at Motegi. Situated up in the hills between the coastal town of Mito and the central valley containing Utsunomiya, fog can be an issue too. When conditions are just right (or just wrong, depending on your point of view), the fog can linger over the circuit, preventing the medevac helicopters from flying, as well as the TV helicopters responsible for the overhead shots.
David Emmett Thu, 03/Oct/2024 - 22:00
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2024 Mandalika MotoGP Warm Up Result: Martin Returns To The Top
2024 Mandalika MotoGP Warm Up Result: Martin Returns To The Top
Results:
Zara Daniela Sun, 29/Sep/2024 - 02:59
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2024 Aragon World Supersport Race One Result: Hard Passing Is The Norm
2024 Aragon World Supersport Race One Result: Hard Passing Is The Norm
World Supersport was fifteen laps of MotorLand Aragon.
Jared Earle Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 14:11
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Quartararo blames limitations of Yamaha package for Morbidelli clash
Fabio Quartararo has bemoaned the limitations of his Yamaha MotoGP package for contributing to his clash with Franco Morbidelli that denied him a points-paying result in the Indonesian sprint race.The Frenchman had been eyeing a fifth consecutive top-10 finish after consolidating his eye-catching Friday practice pace by securing a spot on the second row in qualifying with sixth place on the ...Keep reading
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Bagnaia describes MotoGP title battle as "a championship of mistakes" after Martin's woe
Francesco Bagnaia has joked that the 2024 MotoGP title battle has become a “championship of mistakes” after he profited from rival Jorge Martin's error to win the Indonesian sprint race.The defending double champion had a strong start from fourth on the grid before Martin’s low-side ahead at Turn 16 on the opening lap invited Bagnaia into a lead he’d maintain to the chequered flag.A fifth ...Keep reading
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2024 Aragon World Supersport Superpole Result: New Lap Record On Hard Tyres
2024 Aragon World Supersport Superpole Result: New Lap Record On Hard Tyres
World Superbike Superpole welcomed back Jonathan Rea and Toprak Razgatlioglu after they missed the Cremona round through injuries. In spite of plenty of crashes yesterday, nobody missed the session.
Jared Earle Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 09:26
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2024 MotoGP Championship Standings After Round 15 Sprint, Mandalika, Indonesia
2024 MotoGP Championship Standings After Round 15 Sprint, Mandalika, Indonesia
MotoGP standings after Mandalika sprint:
Zara Daniela Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 07:55
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15
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2024
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2024 Mandalika Moto2 Qualifying Result: True To Form
2024 Mandalika Moto2 Qualifying Result: True To Form
Results and summary of qualifying for the Moto2 class at Mandalika:
Zara Daniela Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 06:38
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MotoGP Indonesian GP: Martin demolishes opposition for Mandalika pole
Jorge Martin doubled down on his status as hot favourite for Indonesian Grand Prix victory by blowing his rivals away en route to a sixth pole position of the MotoGP season at Mandalika.The Pramac Ducati rider was in a class of his own after turning in a stunning lap record-breaking benchmark of 1m 29.088s.Earning him a huge half-second margin over his nearest rival, his performance was made all ...Keep reading
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2024 Mandalika MotoGP Qualifying Result: Waltzing Through Yellow Flags Towards A Lap Record
2024 Mandalika MotoGP Qualifying Result: Waltzing Through Yellow Flags Towards A Lap Record
Results and summary of qualifying for the MotoGP class at Mandalika:
Zara Daniela Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 03:58
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2024 Mandalika Moto3 Practice 2 Result: Lunetta Snatches A Lap Record
2024 Mandalika Moto3 Practice 2 Result: Lunetta Snatches A Lap Record
Day two in Mandalika started with a broken all-time lap record and plenty of other early improvements, even if the new record holder, Luca Lunetta, ended the session in the gravel trap at turn 8. Friday’s leader, Collin Veijer, stayed close in second position, while Filippo Farioli joined his teammate in the top three.
Zara Daniela Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 01:21
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The “good steps” for Quartararo as Yamaha leads Ducati chase
Fabio Quartararo has credited the “good steps” made by Yamaha in recent weeks for securing another direct passage through to Q2 for the MotoGP Indonesian Grand Prix.The Frenchman enjoyed a confidence-boosting run to the sixth fastest time in Friday’s second practice session at Mandalika, Quartararo emerging as the highest-placed non-Ducati rider en route to an assured spot in Saturday ...Keep reading
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2024 Aragon World Superbike FP1 Result: Razgatlioglu Returns On Top
2024 Aragon World Superbike FP1 Result: Razgatlioglu Returns On Top
Toprak Razgatlioglu returned from injury and set the fastest lap of the morning, ahead of Garrett Gerloff. Behind the leading BMWs, Honda picked up third and fourth spots, making use of the bike's horsepower down the long straight.
Results:
Jared Earle Fri, 27/Sep/2024 - 12:49
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2024 Aragon World Supersport Superpole Result: Top Eleven Covered By A Second
2024 Aragon World Supersport Superpole Result: Top Eleven Covered By A Second
World Supersport Superpole completed on Friday afternoon, with a Yamaha on the front row.
Jared Earle Fri, 27/Sep/2024 - 16:09
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Martin differs from Bagnaia as he commits to new Ducati aero
Jorge Martin has committed to Ducati’s latest aerodynamic package after MotoGP title rival Francesco Bagnaia opted against it, following the opening day at the Indonesian Grand Prix.With six rounds of the season remaining, Pramac Ducati rider Martin arrives for the first of five flyaway events in Indonesia armed with a 24-point buffer over defending champion Bagnaia.During a season in which the ...Keep reading
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The 2023 “nightmare” Martin is avoiding as MotoGP title pressure cranks up
Jorge Martin says working on his mental strength is aiding his MotoGP world title fight after suffering “a nightmare” during last year’s world championship tussle over the flyaway rounds.The Pramac Ducati rider’s MotoGP standings lead may have been trimmed by three points to 21 points over the Indonesian Grand Prix weekend by Francesco Bagnaia, but Martin felt his victory in the main race ...Keep reading
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Mandalika MotoGP Saturday Subscriber Notes: Yes, Bagnaia & Martin Really Are Trying To Win The Title
Mandalika MotoGP Saturday Subscriber Notes: Yes, Bagnaia & Martin Really Are Trying To Win The Title
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"It looks like this season is a championship of mistakes," Pecco Bagnaia said after the sprint race at Mandalika. "My idea is that it's arrived from the performance of the tires. The rear tires did an enormous step in front, but we are braking so hard because the rear is also helping a lot in the braking, but the front has more issues. Because we are entering much, much faster in all the corners. So the performance that Michelin improved this season is incredible. All the season, all the circuits we improved a lot the pace. But when you are at this limit is easy also to have a crash."
Marc Márquez was open to that idea as well. "Mistakes, because they are super fast and then everybody is riding on the limit. I feel fast but even like this they are faster. So when you are riding on the limit, every lap from the first to the last … I remember just five years ago the races were quite different. It was like, pushing some laps. Now you are pushing all the laps. And yeah, everybody can be super fast, but easier to do mistakes."
David Emmett Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 23:17
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2024 Aragon World Superbike Race One Result: Red Flag, It'll End In Tears
2024 Aragon World Superbike Race One Result: Red Flag, It'll End In Tears
Eighteen laps of MotorLand Aragon with the return of Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea. Dominique Aegerter is still absent after a cycling injury, and continues to be replaced by the German Marvin Fritz who will copy BMW's engine replacement tactic from Cremona, unwrapping a fresh engine for Aegerter's return. A pink-clad drumming band in the grandstand added to the noise of the engines in 22ºC weather.
Jared Earle Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 13:06
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Marquez rues qualifying woes and says he's not in Indonesian GP win contention
Marc Marquez says he doesn’t expect to be in victory contention for Sunday’s full-length Indonesian Grand Prix despite his run to the top three from 12th in MotoGP's sprint race.The Gresini Ducati rider’s third-placed finish behind Francesco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini in Saturday’s shorter encounter was the positive end to a day that started terribly when Marquez failed to set a time in ...Keep reading
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Martin baffled by costly lap-one crash as he 'didn't feel on the limit'
Jorge Martin says he will look closely at the circumstances of his opening-lap crash in the Indonesian Grand Prix sprint race, which resulted in his MotoGP points lead being slashed.The Spaniard came into Saturday afternoon’s shorter encounter as the clear rider to beat in the wake of a dominant showing during qualifying that earned him pole position by more than half-a-second.However, despite ...Keep reading
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2024 Aragon World Superbike FP3 Result: Ducatis On Top Of Red Flagged Session
2024 Aragon World Superbike FP3 Result: Ducatis On Top Of Red Flagged Session
The short morning's session was topped by Alvaro Bautista and Nicolo Bulega with Toprak Razgatlioglu third quickest ahead of Superpole. Michael van der Mark brought out red flags when his BMW started spewing flames out of the exhaust.
Results:
Jared Earle Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 09:00
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2024 Mandalika MotoGP Sprint Result: Another Day, Another Plot Twist
2024 Mandalika MotoGP Sprint Result: Another Day, Another Plot Twist
Results and summary of the MotoGP sprint at Mandalika:
Zara Daniela Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 07:49
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2024 Mandalika Moto3 Qualifying Result: Copping A Lap Record Alongside A Long Lap Penalty
2024 Mandalika Moto3 Qualifying Result: Copping A Lap Record Alongside A Long Lap Penalty
Results and summary of qualifying for the Moto3 class at Mandalika:
Zara Daniela Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 05:47
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2023 Mandalika MotoGP Free Practice 2 Result: Morbidelli Back In The Limelight
2023 Mandalika MotoGP Free Practice 2 Result: Morbidelli Back In The Limelight
The final practice session for the premier class saw a bit of a conveyor belt of riders taking top spot on the timing screens. First it was Fabio Quartararo hogging the limelight, with brief interruptions from Enea Bastianini, then Jorge Martin regrouped from an early tumble at turn 16 to lead halfway through the session and then Marc Marquez and Aleix Espargaro found some extra speed in the closing stages. However, in the end it was Franco Morbidelli who demoted them all to take control of proceedings in FP2.
Zara Daniela Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 02:48
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2024 Mandalika Moto2 Practice 2 Result: Canet Reclaims His Record
2024 Mandalika Moto2 Practice 2 Result: Canet Reclaims His Record
The all-time lap record was not safe in the intermediate class either, first threatened by Tony Arbolino and eventually reclaimed by Aron Canet in the final three minutes of the session. In the end, the Spaniard led the way by two tenths of a second ahead of the Italian, while Fermin Aldeguer continued a strong weekend in Indonesia with third place and a save for the highlights reel.
Zara Daniela Sat, 28/Sep/2024 - 02:05
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Mandalika MotoGP Friday Round Up: Ducati Assert Their Dominance, Hope Grows For Honda And Yamaha
Mandalika MotoGP Friday Round Up: Ducati Assert Their Dominance, Hope Grows For Honda And Yamaha
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The start of the Asia-Pacific MotoGP tour is supposed to throw up surprises. When MotoGP arrives at tracks that the teams and factories don't know as well, the field should be leveled. The established order should be shaken up, and outsiders get a look in.
At the end of the first day of the Indonesian Grand Prix at the Mandalika International Circuit, the first of MotoGP's so-called flyaways (though that depends on where you depart from), the fastest four bikes are the four Ducati Desmosedici GP24s, the dominant machine of the 2024 season. A Ducati GP23 is in fifth, with two more GP23s in the top ten. Only Alex Márquez, who crashed trying to set a fast lap, languishes outside the top ten.
Normal order very much restored, then. Enea Bastianini just edged out Jorge Martin by four hundredths of a second, after Martin became the first rider to smash the lap record. Franco Morbidelli took a solid third on the second Pramac Ducati, while Bastianini's Ducati Lenovo teammate Pecco Bagnaia fired in a last desperate fast lap to take fourth.
David Emmett Fri, 27/Sep/2024 - 22:22
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Bagnaia thought he was "reliving nightmare" of 2023 in Indonesia practice
Francesco Bagnaia confessed he felt pressure in the closing stages of second practice for MotoGP's Indonesian Grand Prix after leaving it until the final minutes to book his Q2 place.Appearing to be on the back foot for much of the day, the defending double champion languished outside the top 10 in both practice sessions for much of Friday as he struggled with set-up and tyre issues.Admitting to ...Keep reading
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2024 Aragon World Supersport FP1 Result: Manzi And Oncu Top Tight Session
2024 Aragon World Supersport FP1 Result: Manzi And Oncu Top Tight Session
With a second covering the top fifteen riders, Stefano Manzi and Can Oncu fended off the Ducatis to end the session quickest ahead of this afternoon's qualifying session.
Results:
Jared Earle Fri, 27/Sep/2024 - 13:00
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2024 Aragon World Superbike FP2 Result: Gerloff Holds Off Ducati Charge
2024 Aragon World Superbike FP2 Result: Gerloff Holds Off Ducati Charge
The afternoon's session was headed by Garrett Gerloff, sneaking in a quick time at the end of the session to keep the five Ducatis behind him off the top spot. The factory pairing of Nicolo Bulega and Alvaro Bautista rounded out the top three, but Toprak Razgatlioglu's fast time from the morning's session kept him ahead of them overall.
Results:
Jared Earle Fri, 27/Sep/2024 - 15:49
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Aki Ajo, Dani Pedrosa primed to lead KTM management restructure
Aki Ajo has emerged as the lead candidate to become KTM boss for the 2025 MotoGP season, while development rider Dani Pedrosa is also set to play a part in the manufacturer’s management reshuffle.With Francesco Guidotti’s exit from the Austrian team at the end of the season having been all-but confirmed ahead of this weekend’s Indonesian Grand Prix, paddock rumours in Mandalika have gone on ...Keep reading
