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Seven things we learned from the 2024 MotoGP Australian Grand Prix

The Australian Grand Prix weekend had it all. There was the usual wild Phillip Island weather, which led to a cancelled session on Friday but at least didn’t interfere with the schedule as it had in 2023.

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MotoGP Australian GP: Martin dominant in sprint, Bagnaia fourth

Jorge Martin converted a dominant pole position into a crushing victory in the Australian Grand Prix sprint race on Saturday.

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MotoGP Australian GP: Martin crushes rivals to take pole, Bagnaia fifth

Pramac Ducati’s Jorge Martin smashed his opposition on Saturday to claim pole position for the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island.

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Iannone set to replace di Giannantonio for MotoGP's Malaysian GP

Andrea Iannone will make a surprise MotoGP comeback replacing the injured Fabio di Giannantonio at the VR46 Ducati team for the penultimate grand prix of the 2024 season in Malaysia early next month.

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Iannone set to end MotoGP hiatus after doping ban with VR46 cameo in Malaysia

Andrea Iannone will make a surprise MotoGP comeback replacing the injured Fabio di Giannantonio at the VR46 Ducati team for the penultimate grand prix of the 2024 season in Malaysia early next month.

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MotoGP Australian GP: Marquez streaks ahead in sole Friday practice session

Marc Marquez dominated a tense Friday Practice session for the Australian Grand Prix, leading his brother and Gresini Ducati team-mate Alex on the final timesheets.

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Acosta: “It would hurt Ducati if Martin took the title to another factory”

Pedro Acosta has voiced the commonly held paddock belief that Ducati would prefer factory rider Francesco Bagnaia to win this year’s world championship over Aprilia-bound Pramac man Jorge Martin.

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Acosta: “It would hurt" Ducati if Martin took the title to another factory

Pedro Acosta has voiced the commonly-held paddock belief that Ducati would prefer factory rider Francesco Bagnaia to win this year’s MotoGP world championship over Aprilia-bound Pramac man Jorge Martin.

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Miller: “Anything is realistic” as Phillip Island braces for rain and wind

Local favourite Jack Miller believes any result is possible at this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, given the nature of the Phillip Island venue as well as the weather forecast.

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Alex Marquez: Mir's comments after Japan clash "didn't make sense"

Gresini Ducati rider Alex Marquez says he was “surprised” at the media comments made by Honda’s Joan Mir immediately after the most recent MotoGP round in Japan.

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Di Giannantonio to skip final two 2024 MotoGP rounds for surgery

VR46 Ducati rider Fabio di Giannantonio will miss the final two races of the year in favour of surgery on the shoulder he injured in practice for the Austrian Grand Prix in August.

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Lorenzo: “Aggressive” Marquez now has more respect for rivals on track

Former MotoGP star Jorge Lorenzo believes Marc Marquez now displays more respect towards rivals while battling with them on track, having initially found his antics to be “very aggressive”.

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How Marquez is the only MotoGP rider keeping the 'old' Ducati alive

The debate about to what extent the MotoGP riders who started the 2024 season with the latest Ducati specification had an advantage is still alive, although somewhat less than a few months ago when the Borgo Panigale brand had to decide who would partner Francesco Bagnaia in 2025 as second…

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Ducati halts GP24 bike development amid Martin, Bagnaia MotoGP title fight

Ducati has decided to halt development of its 2024 MotoGP bike as the title battle between Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia enters the final phase.

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How Acosta is snatching the show from a lengthy MotoGP title duel

It’s hard to measure exactly what aspect of any given motor race excites punters the most. But if we use the tone of voice adopted by MotoGP’s various television pundits as a yardstick, the answer in Japan was clear: Pedro Acosta.

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How MotoGP’s new star is snatching the show from lengthy title duel

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Ducati MotoGP star to pilot Group B WRC rally car

Factory Ducati MotoGP rider Enea Bastianini is set to swap two wheels for four at the Rallylegend festival this weekend.

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What Honda must do next now it has its ideal MotoGP tech boss

The appointment of Romano Albesiano as Honda's technical director for 2025 has a powerful symbolic charge for a company so faithful to Japanese philosophy. However, the key to the success of the Italian's signing is no longer so much what he can contribute, but what he is allowed to do.

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This Ducati-Powered Fiat 500 is Madness, Absolute Madness

Someone with no sense of respectability or decency lost their minds, snatched up a wrecked Ducati, along with a Fiat 500 and thought, "Hey, what if these two kissed and made a baby?"

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Acosta: “I’m not going to accept that Ducati is better than KTM”

MotoGP rookie star Pedro Acosta has no intention of hiding behind the fact that he’s not on a Ducati following a Japanese Grand Prix weekend on which the KTM rider was quicker than ever but fell twice.

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Francesco Bagnaia wins in Japan to turn up MotoGP title heat on Jorge Martín

The two-times defending champion cut the gap to his rival to 10 points after adding Sunday’s grand prix to sprint race glory on Saturday

Autosport

Mir fuming at Alex Marquez over "crazy" first-lap Motegi clash

Honda rider Joan Mir was left fuming after being taken out of the Japanese Grand Prix by Ducati rival Alex Marquez on Sunday, in an incident the 2020 world champion labelled “crazy”.

Autosport

MotoGP Japanese GP: Bagnaia slashes Martin's lead with win, Acosta crashes

Francesco Bagnaia won Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix after leading the race at Motegi from lights to flag, heading home Jorge Martin and thus closing to within 10 points of the Spaniard with four rounds left in the world championship.

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Martin to copy Marquez's style after riding "worse than a rookie” in sprint

Jorge Martin claims he was riding “worse than a rookie” on his way to fourth place in the sprint at Motegi on Saturday, but the Pramac Ducati star says he knows how to improve after following Marc Marquez for most of the race.

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MotoGP Japanese GP: Acosta gifts Bagnaia maximum points with sprint crash

Francesco Bagnaia took a six-point bite out of Jorge Martin’s MotoGP points advantage as he led a 1-2 for the factory Ducati team in the Japanese GP sprint race on Saturday.

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