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Parts of Motegi’s historic speedway have been given a new lease of life as spectator areas, but much of the oval remains intact as part of a phased redevelopment plan.Earlier this year, circuit owner Honda began dismantling parts of Motegi’s 1.5-mile oval that previously served a...
MotoGP officially confirmed on Wednesday the introduction of a new weekend format, first revealed by Motorsport.com during the Austrian Grand Prix, which will come into effect next year and feature a dedicated qualifying session for the sprint race.The change was approved by the...
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Ducati MotoGP team manager Davide Tardozzi says losing up to 12 points would be an acceptable outcome at the Indonesian Grand Prix this weekend. He was referring primarily to lead factory rider Marc Marquez, who is in the thick of the world championship fight but does not have a...
The 2026 Japanese Grand Prix was a special one for Ducati’s technical guru Gigi Dall’Igna. Exactly a year after Marc Marquez clinched the MotoGP title on one of his creations, Dall’Igna celebrated his 100th grand prix success at Motegi.All of these 100 wins have come in just the...
Fabio Quartararo has revealed that his Japanese Grand Prix was heavily compromised by fuel conservation issues last Sunday, hinting that it was not an isolated probem. Quartararo finished Yamaha's home race 12th, the same position where he had started, making it a reasonably aver...
Maverick Vinales says he considers his shoulder healed after completing his latest MotoGP comeback at the Japanese Grand Prix last Sunday. The veteran Spaniard came away from Motegi with two points for 14th place in the main race, rounding off his first full weekend of competitio...
Alex Marquez says he crashed out of the Japanese Grand Prix after accidentally upshifting his Ducati while turning into a corner, describing the mistake as “unacceptable”. The Gresini rider failed to score a single point across the weekend at Motegi, in what was his worst showing...
At first glance, a 37-point haul for Marc Marquez hardly suggests an unusual or intriguing weekend. But Motegi almost always provides novel sub-plots - and 2026 was, in fact, no exception.Last-corner penalties, first-lap crashes, a new track surface, Honda's ups and downs at home...
Pedro Acosta described the Japanese Grand Prix as his first “tough” race in a “really long time”, as a “strange” issue left him struggling in seventh place.Fresh off his maiden MotoGP win at the Austrian Grand Prix, Acosta endured a relatively lacklustre weekend at Motegi, despit...
Koji Watanabe, the long-time boss of Honda's racing activities under HRC, will retire on 1 January 2027, with Keiichi Yasuda appointed as his successor.A long-time Honda employee after first joining the Japanese marque in 1987, Watanabe became the head of Honda's racing division...
The restraint Marc Marquez has shown while celebrating his last two sprint podiums has led many to wonder about the reason behind his serious expression. The explanation lies in his explicit desire to avoid sharp swings in his adrenaline levels, allowing him to conserve his energ...
On the Thursday afternoon ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix, Jack Miller spoke to the media as usual. He was asked about the tyre allocation made by Michelin, the championship's supplier, for the weekend at Motegi. There were three options for dry conditions: the conventional soft...
Jorge Martin says he found it “impossible to beat” Marc Marquez for victory at the Japanese Grand Prix even on what he felt was “one of my good days” in MotoGP. Martin put a strong challenge against the reigning world champion on Sunday after Aprilia delivered a vastly improved b...
Enea Bastianini has framed his stellar Japanese Grand Prix performance as a breakthrough moment in a difficult couple of years. The Tech3 KTM rider has battled since leaving the factory Ducati squad at the end of 2024, with highlights few and far between. But he set the track ali...
The Japanese GP programme included a karting race between MotoGP riders on Sunday morning, but Marc Marquez skipped the event and sent a body double in his place, earning a stern reprimand from the championship.Days before the MotoGP paddock arrived in Japan, the championship beg...
Leading MotoGP riders have admitted they missed a trick by not trying the hard tyre earlier in the Japanese GP weekend - given that it proved to be by far the best option for the race. Some, including winner Marc Marquez, even went so far as to suggest the hard tyre would have be...
Marc Marquez defeated Jorge Martin in a straight battle to claim victory in the Japanese Grand Prix and move within two points of the MotoGP championship leader.After a commanding sprint win on Saturday, Ducati star Marquez had to work hard to complete a double at Motegi, with po...
Marco Bezzecchi says he has no answer as to why he was “one second too slow” in the Japanese Grand Prix sprint, having recorded strong pace on the same medium tyre in practice.The Italian was one of the only two riders on the grid to opt for Michelin’s medium rear compound, the o...
Aprilia's Jorge Martin will start the Japanese Grand Prix from pole position after breaking the circuit record in Saturday's qualifying session at Motegi.The 2024 MotoGP champion will line up just in front of Ducati rival Marc Marquez, who won the sprint race on Saturday and has...
While Honda more than delivered on expectations with a second place in the sprint at Motegi on Saturday, its rider Diogo Moreira was keen not to raise hopes for the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday.Though it was by far the Brazilian's best result thus far in his rookie premier class...
Following acute tyre difficulties for some riders during today's sprint race at Motegi, MotoGP tyre supplier Michelin has taken the extreme step of banning the soft compound for tomorrow's Japanese Grand Prix. Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia were particularly affected by high...
Enea Bastianini has labelled the last-lap penalty he received for a track limits infringement in the Japanese GP sprint as “unfair”, claiming he did not gain any time.Tech3 rider Bastianini was running in third place ahead of LCR Honda’s Diogo Moreira when Jorge Martin suddenly f...
Pramac’s Jack Miller says he can “almost guarantee” that Michelin will mandate the untested hard tyre for the Japanese Grand Prix after several MotoGP riders faced severe tyre degradation in the sprint.The main talking point after Saturday’s half-distance race was tyre wear, with...
KTM rider Pedro Acosta has criticised Alex Marquez after the Gresini Ducati rider took out both Acosta and Fabio Di Giannantonio on the first lap of the Motegi sprint on Saturday. The incident brought a swift end to another promising day for Acosta, who had started the sprint on...