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Apr142024 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

VIDEO: Marc Marquez leads the race, then crashes

Marc Marquez has always been considered a fast racer on the COTA track, and he lived up to his reputation in Sunday's race as well, when he took the lead after a few laps and close duels with his rivals. Unfortunately, the eight-time world champion will have to wait a little longer for his first victory with Ducati, as he crashed and retired. https://twitter.com/MotoGP/status/1779592179997946113

Apr132024 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Jorge Martin set the best time of the 2nd training with a new lap record

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Jorge Martin set a new lap record in the second free practice session at the Circuit of the Americas, moving to the top of the time table. The Pramac team rider was almost half a second faster than the previous record set by Bagnaia last year. Second was Maverick Vinales, otherwise the fastest racer in the first training session, while Marc Marquez set the third time ahead of Francesco Bagnaia and Pedro Acosta. Aleix Espargaro, Frnaco Morbidelli, Enea Bastianini, Fabio Di Giannantonio and Marco Bezzecchi qualified for the second part of the qualification.

Mar312024 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

The director of Ducati will not "bite" into the press trap

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The director of Ducati, Claudio Domenicali, was asked by the journalists if, due to the arrival of Marc Marquez, it is possible to feel more tension among the Ducati racers. But the Italian is aware that some media want to spin a controversial story out of the story around Marquez, so he did not allow himself to be caught in the trap and decide on the blame for the collision between the Spaniard and Francesco Bagnaia in the race in Portimao. "I know the media is chasing a certain story, but I don't want to get into those waters," he said. "Ducati was in first and second place, so I'm happy. Of course we're all disappointed when what happened to Pecc and Marco happens, but this is racing. They're both great champions and I can't blame either of them. I've seen the analyses, and it depends on whose perspective you look at it, everyone had their own

Mar242024 by Tomaž StrgaršekNo Comments

Bagnaia is furious after zero but admits it was a racing incident

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Francesco Bagnaia was understandably very disappointed after finishing Sunday's race without any points after crashing. At the same time, he agrees with the decision of the race commissioners that the collision with Marc Marquez was a racing incident. The mentioned racers collided and fell at the end of the race when they were fighting for fifth place. "Before the race I was very confident, because I already felt very good in the warm-up. The grip was very good. I was thinking to run the race similar to Qatar. So aggressively at the beginning to break into the lead and then control the rivals and the tires ." "But right at the start I was in more and more trouble. I expected to be faster, but I couldn't keep up with the riders in front. So I decided to slow down, control the tire wear

Mar222024 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Bastian's fastest driver on the first day in Portimão

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Enea Bastianini secured direct entry into the second part of MotoGP qualifying for the Portuguese Grand Prix with the fastest time of Friday's free practice, while Marc Marquez also qualified for Q2 with the third time of the afternoon practice, despite a fall. In the morning's first practice of the MotoGP class, the racers were greeted by a rather dusty Algarve track. Dust brought to the track by heavy rains even interrupted Moto3 practice, but the situation improved slightly when Moto2 practice was scheduled. The elite class racers started their 45-minute practice in satisfactory conditions, but the lap times were still over three seconds slower than last year. In the end, Marc Marquez found himself at the top, who is still getting used to the Ducati after his transfer to the Gresini Ducati team

Mar182024 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Official: Fermin Aldeguer will race with Ducati in MotoGP in 2025

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Ducati have also officially confirmed that Spaniard Fermin Aldeguer will race for them in the MotoGP class in 2025 after signing a two-year contract with them. Although it is not yet officially known which team the 18-year-old Spaniard will race for, it is rumored that he will take compatriot Jorge Martin's place in the Pramac Ducati team. For now, it remains only a rumor, most likely because the aforementioned team has a signed contract with Ducati only until the end of this season, and the extension of cooperation has not yet been confirmed.

Mar142024 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Di Giannantonio after the fall in Qatar: I prefer not to say how much the repair cost

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Fabio di Giannantonio ended the sprint race in Qatar with a crash that badly damaged his Ducati, and the Italian admitted that Valentino Rossi's VR46 team had to dig deep into their pockets to repair the wrecked bike. Di Giannantonio won last year's Qatar GP, but this year he made the race weekend complicated already on Saturday, when he won the seventh starting position for both races. Things took a turn for the worse when, in the third lap of the sprint race, chasing down Marc Marquez, he fell badly and lay down practically in the middle of the track, where he was very lucky that all the racers managed to pass him. "I was lucky that everyone saw me," he said. "But the bike went straight into the guardrail. I'd rather not say how much it cost the team to fix." After all, they are mechanics

Mar122024 by Tomaž StrgaršekNo Comments

Bastianini half-satisfied: The tactic did not pay off

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Enea Bastianini regrets that he started Sunday's race too cautiously and consequently lost contact with the leading group. Bastainini made an encouraging start to the first race weekend in Qatar after finishing third in qualifying, bettering team-mate Francesco Bagnaia. But neither in the sprint race nor in the Sunday main race did he manage to keep a high position. He finished the sprint in fifth place, but on Sunday, after having a lot of braking problems, he finished in sixth place. After the end of the weekend, he regretted in particular his approach in Sunday's race, which he started very reserved in order to save the tires for the last part. The team's rival Bagnaia, however, took the exact opposite tactic. At the beginning, he made his way into the lead with aggressive driving, and later on

Mar112024 by Tomaž StrgaršekNo Comments

Bagnaia: I could drive even faster

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After winning the race in Qatar, Francesco Bagnaia admitted that he could have driven even faster, but he preferred to focus on controlling the lead. The current world champion led all the laps of the opening race of the new season after taking the lead after just a few turns, which was never threatened for a moment. As he said after the race, he had such a plan from the very beginning. To get a small lead and then watch the tire wear. When asked if it was the best possible start to the season, he replied: "For sure. It was important that we changed the strategy a bit in the opening laps compared to Saturday. In the opening I tried to be a bit more aggressive, because I was aware that if I got into the lead I would be able to control the lead." "The sprint race was a good remedy for that

Mar102024 by Tomaž StrgaršekNo Comments

Bagnaji season opener in Qatar

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Francesco Bagnaia is the sovereign winner of the first race of the new MotoGP class season in Qatar. Due to the problems of Raul Fernandez, it started with a delay of several minutes and was consequently shortened by one lap. The reigning world champion took the lead in the opening laps of the race and his lead was never threatened thereafter. Brad Binder and Jorge Martin joined him on the podium. https://twitter.com/MotoGP/status/1766885254046867537 Marc Marquez finished fourth ahead of Eneo Bastianini and Alex Marquez. Last year's winner Fabio Di Giannantonio was seventh. Aleix Espargaro failed to take advantage of the second starting place and after a bad start, he finished in eighth place. Pedro Acosta is on his first in the MotoGP class after a good start where he was even in the fight for