The MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix Sprint race ended with a ninth-place finish for Miguel Oliveira. The Trackhouse Racing rider briefly held eighth position but was overtaken by Marc Márquez (Gresini/Ducati), dropping him to tenth before he got ninth due to Johann Zarco’s (LCR Honda) fall at the end. Despite the incident with the Spaniard, the Portuguese rider acknowledged that he didn’t have the pace to do much more: ‘I just had to be one second faster and then he won’t be able to overtake me that easy. That’s the point I need to focus on, it’s not in this kind of overtaking stories. I need to go ..read more

Miguel Oliveira finished ninth in the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix Sprint race. The Trackhouse Racing rider started from 14th, dropped to 20th in the early corners, and then gradually recovered to the points-paying positions, benefiting also from crashes ahead. At one point, the Portuguese rider was in eighth place but was delayed by an overtake from Marc Márquez (Gresini/Ducati)… about which he confronted the rival, as he recounted: – I said he owes me a new screen and a new air filter, because of the stones. I said to him, «Look, the way you overtake is that you put half a bike in and then you ..read more

The day continues to be strong in the chaos that was the MotoGP Sprint race at Jerez. If Fabio Quartararo had managed to get his first podium of the year, he has just lost it. The issue was tyre pressure below the permitted value, which meant an eight-second penalty for the Frenchman. If Quartararo had reason to smile about the podium, the truth is that after the eight-second penalty his result isn’t the worst and the #20 is still in the Sprint points. It’s not a podium, of course, but the Frenchman still has a gap of 15.052s to Jorge Martín, which means he’s gone from third to sixth. Dani Pe ..read more

Pedro Acosta got to end one more time on the podium but today he might have had the «help» of some crashes ahead of him, which of course doesn’t take value on what he did, even more being a rookie at the class. The weather conditions played a big role in the way the Sprint race went, which the mixed conditions to be… ‘a shit’, so the rider considers. After the race the Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 rider spoke about the matter to the press: ‘It was tough. For a rider if it’s dry it’s ok, if it’s wet is ok but when it’s mixed it’s a piece of shit. It was tough because in turn 8 and 9 I was able to see ..read more

Dani Pedrosa came close to the podium in the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix Sprint race. Qualifying in the rain pushed him to 16th place on the starting grid, but he gradually regained positions to finish fourth, just behind Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha). The Red Bull KTM rider explained what hindered him in qualifying: ‘The qualifying was a bit difficult today, because it was the first time I was riding this bike on the wet, so we were missing some things to be on the point – such as the setting and mapping. I was trying because it was qualifying and we had no time actually to set-up t ..read more

In the fourth round, Fermín Aldeguer clinched his first pole position of the Moto2 season. The future MotoGP rider set the pace in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez. The Spanish rider from Beta Tools SpeedUp was the first to set a timed lap, but was later overtaken by Jake Dixon (CFMoto Aspar/Kalex), before reclaiming the top spot. Aldeguer responded, returned to the lead, and remained there after the initial runs. With 12 minutes gone, Manuel González (QJMotor Gresini/Kalex) moved to the top of the timing sheets. However, he couldn’t withstand Aldeguer’s final push, as the latte ..read more

The sprint race in Jerez saw a lot of crashes and one of the first was that of Pecco Bagnaia. The defending champion completed just two laps before retiring from the race. The Ducati Lenovo Team rider was well underway and in contention for the podium places when Brad Binder went to the inside, and according to the television replays, Bagnaia’s right elbow and the rear wheel of the #33’s KTM RC16 had a little encounter, which ended up taking Bagnaia to his left, where Marco Bezzecchi was. Watch the moment in the video below, with images from DAZN: O conteúdo Video: Pecco Bagnaia crash at Jere ..read more

Pedro Acosta secured another podium finish this Saturday, this time in the Sprint race of the Spanish Grand Prix. Despite starting from tenth after a crash in qualifying, the rookie climbed up to second in a race full of crashes. The Spanish rider from Red Bull GasGas Tech3 said in the official broadcast interview: ‘Well, at the end we know we had the pace, but it was quite tough starting from tenth after the crash in qualifying. It was quite tough; it’s true that the first lap and also the start were quite nice, overtaking [Fabio] DiGia and other boys was super nice’. Regarding the track con ..read more

It was a super super happy Jorge Martín that who showed up and the parc fermé, with the spaniard smiling after winning at Jerez, in front of his supporters. The Pramac Racing rider said it was a very complicated day, due to the track conditions, and that tomorrow on the long race it may be ‘a different story’. ‘It was a difficult race, the track conditions were super hard. I did a good start but then saw Marc Márquez was coming even if I was pushing a lot and as soon as he overtook me, I did a mistake on corner seven and he caught me, then I tried to follow him, I tried to push and he did a m ..read more

To win races, to cross the finish line is a must. As one of the most experienced riders in MotoGP, Marc Márquez knows this well, but he couldn’t avoid a crash in the Spanish Grand Prix Sprint race. The Gresini rider was leading with four laps to go, eyeing his first victory aboard a Ducati. However, in a race filled with incidents, he himself was involved in one of the several crashes. It happened at turn nine of the Jerez circuit, with no major physical consequences. Márquez got up and returned to the track to fiercely fight for the last scoring positions. He finished in seventh place. In th ..read more