Francesco Bagnaia has taken victory in Austria ahead of his championship rival Miguel Oliveira after a tense battle in the final laps. Bagnaia now leads the championship again, just 3 points ahead of Oliveira.
Marc Marquez has snatched pole position away from the Ducatis in a tight qualifying session at the Red Bull Ring.
Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City has emerged as an option to hold a MotoGP race next season. There were originally plans to add a Finnish race to the calendar for 2019, however the new track is now unlikely to be ready in time.
Marc Marquez has a healthy 46-point lead over second place Valentino Rossi in the championship, but heading into the second half of the season the reigning world champion is not getting carried away.
From the 20th-22nd July 2018, Misano World Circuit turned red for the tenth edition of World Ducati Week. The event is held bi-annually at the track for Ducatisti to enjoy, with WorldSBK and MotoGP riders in attendance.
So far this year, Marc Marquez has well and truly reigned over the rest of the MotoGP field. He has 5 wins to his name heading into the summer break, but two non-scores have left him just about within touching distance of the rest of the field.
The Movistar Yamaha MotoGP team are currently enduring a long winless streak, with 18 races having now passed since Valentino Rossi triumphed at Assen last year.
Marc Marquez is unbeaten at the Sachsenring since 2010, when he won in the 125cc category. He then had two consecutive wins at the track in Moto2, in 2011 and 2012, and has won every race in Germany since he made the step up to MotoGP in 2013.
The long-awaited announcement regarding Dani Pedrosa’s future finally arrived today at the Sachsenring. The current Repsol Honda rider held a special press conference in which he announced he is retiring from MotoGP after 13 years in the premier class.
Jorge Lorenzo is heading to Sachsenring in an optimistic mood, despite it not being a circuit that has been very well matched to the Ducati in the past.
