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Marquez’s Assen MotoGP tyre pressure penalty highlights unfair rules flaw

Marc Marquez was only 0.01 bar outside of MotoGP’s minimum tyre pressure rule for one lap of the Dutch Grand Prix and feels contact with Enea Bastianini was to blame.

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Marquez penalised for tyre pressure infringement in Assen MotoGP race

Marc Marquez has been hit with a penalty for a tyre pressure rule infraction in the MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix, dropping him to 10th.

Motorsport

MotoGP Dutch GP: Full Moto2 and Moto3 race results

A thrilling 20-lap Moto3 grand prix opened up Sunday’s race programme at the TT Circuit Assen, with Ivan Ortola denying home hero Collin Veijer at the final chicane.

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Yamaha debuts new engine in Assen MotoGP practice

Yamaha debuted a new MotoGP engine on Friday at the Dutch Grand Prix, but Fabio Quartararo doesn’t believe it is helping much at the flowing Assen track.

Autosport

Pramac announces Ducati split, move to Yamaha MotoGP structure

Pramac has announced that it will part ways with Ducati at the end of the current MotoGP season to become a satellite Yamaha team in 2025. As revealed by Autosport on Thursday, the Italian outfit will bring the curtain down to a relationship that began almost two decades ago in…

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Martin: Ducati has offered full support in MotoGP despite Aprilia deal

Jorge Martin says Ducati has assured him that he will get its full support in the 2024 MotoGP title fight despite his impending split from the Italian manufacturer. Pramac rider Martin will leave the Ducati fold after four seasons to join Aprilia on a multi-year deal in 2025, having lost…

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How a struggling MotoGP sophomore saved his career but highlighted a wider issue

Gresini Ducati rookie Fabio Di Giannantonio scored points on just six occasions in 2022. His haul at the end of that season was a slender 24, a full 87 points adrift of the next Ducati rider in the standings. His fellow rookie Marco Bezzecchi, had a higher peak too, managing a…

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MotoGP Valencia GP: Vinales takes pole as Bagnaia heads Martin for title showdown

The factory Aprilia rider put in the first ever 1m28s lap at Circuit Ricardo Tormo with a 1m28.931s to take his first pole since Assen in 2021, two days prior to announcing he was quitting Yamaha a year early.He led from factory Ducati rider Bagnaia, who dominated Q1 before finishing…

Autosport

MV Agusta To Reveal Limited Edition Brutale 1000 RR At 2023 Classic GP Assen

MV Agusta plans to unveil its latest limited edition Brutale 1000 RR, the Assen, at the 2023 Tabac Classic GP Assen event in September. Is it paint, or more?

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Bezzecchi must move to Pramac to get factory Ducati MotoGP bike in 2024

Bezzecchi is enjoying a strong sophomore campaign in the premier class with Valentino Rossi's squad, securing his maiden grand prix victory in Argentina before adding a second in France and a sprint win at Assen to sit third in the standings.

Motorsport

Marc Marquez interview: On his injury recovery, Honda’s MotoGP progress and Rins

Aside from the catastrophe caused by his crash and injury at Jerez in July 2020, for Marc Marquez the first part of the 2023 season has undoubtedly been one of the most unrecognisable moments of his career.

Autosport

How Honda's stubbornness has left it in a MotoGP no-man's land

The principle that when things go wrong they can always go worse suits Honda like a glove. It has hit rock bottom in the last two weeks. Neither Marc Marquez, Alex Rins nor Joan Mir, their three most competitive riders, took part in the last two stops of the calendar,…

Autosport

10 things we learned from the 2023 MotoGP Dutch GP

Francesco Bagnaia extended his MotoGP world championship lead with victory in the Dutch Grand Prix and in the process halted a clean sweep by Marco Bezzecchi, who topped every practice session, grabbed pole and won the sprint race.

Autosport

Bezzecchi was “scared of losing podium” at Dutch MotoGP

Bezzecchi defeated Francesco Bagnaia to win the sprint race on Saturday, when both riders ran a soft rear tyre, but he had to give best to the factory Ducati in the longer, hotter Dutch Grand Prix at Assen, when most of the field took the medium rear tyre.

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Bezzecchi “scared of losing podium” at Dutch MotoGP

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MotoGP Dutch GP: Full Moto2 and Moto3 race results

Leopard Racing rider Masia came out on top of a 10-rider battle at Assen to win the Moto3 race.

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Marquez enduring "worst moment" of MotoGP career aside from injury

The Honda factory rider returned to MotoGP action at Assen after withdrawing from the last round at the Sachsenring following five crashes during the weekend that left him with multiple fractures.

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Marquez “needs” Assen MotoGP round even if “I cannot go for anything”

The Honda rider suffered a bruising weekend at the German GP in which he crashed five times, the last one leaving him with multiple fractures and ruling him out of the grand prix.

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MotoGP Dutch GP: Bezzecchi holds top spot in FP2 as Marquez crashes

Having dominated the opening practice at Assen on Friday morning, Bezzecchi carried that form into the hour-long afternoon session to lead Pramac’s Jorge Martin by 0.130 seconds.

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2023 MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix – How to watch, session times & more

Ducati's Francesco Bagnaia continues to lead the championship on 160 points heading to Assen, but Pramac's Jorge Martin has moved up to second following his second career win last weekend at the Sachsenring.

Autosport

MotoGP Dutch GP: Bezzecchi tops FP1, Marquez 21st

A year on from his maiden MotoGP podium at the Dutch venue, Bezzecchi kicked off the 2023 Assen weekend by leading the field by 0.314 seconds having taken control of FP1 early on.

Autosport

Quartararo: Yamaha MotoGP bike “will not be fast anywhere” if it’s not quick at Assen

Quartararo has enjoyed a lot of success at the TT Circuit Assen in his grand prix career, scoring podiums in all three classes of the world championship.

Motorsport

Sykes departs Puccetti, returns to BMW as injury stand-in

The 2013 world champion has endured a miserable start to his return to the series after a season away in British Superbike, scoring just a single point in last month's Assen round with a 15th-place finish.

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WSBK: Michael Van Der Mark To Undergo Surgery After High side in Assen

BMW WSBK racer, Michael van der Mark, has once again suffered another injury. This time, it’s on his femur after a nasty high side in Assen last week.

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Jonathan Rea describes Assen crash as 'most graceful I've ever had'

Jonathan Rea crashed out in Race Two at Sunday's World Superbikes round in Assen

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