
The opening round of the 2014 MotoGP Championship takes place this weekend and after the first two days of practice at Doha, one rider has stood out, topping the time sheets in the first three Free Practice sessions: Aleix Espargaro. We're certainly not surprised to see the 24-year-old Spaniard...
Aleix Espargaro and Colin Edwards will race for the NGM Forward team in MotoGP next year, riding FTR-based Yamaha production machines. The announcement had been expected for a very long time, but confirmation only came on Saturday morning at Valencia, as haggling over buying out Espargaro's...
Aleix Espargaró is staying with Aprilia, signing a two-year contract extension to race the Aprilia RS-GP through the 2020 MotoGP season. The 28-year-old Spanish racer joined Aprilia last year after a two-year stint with Suzuki. Espargaró is currently in his seventh season in the MotoGP class....
Aleix Espargaro has injured his knee during a training crash earlier this month. According to the Spanish publication Motocuatro, the Spaniard was participating in an informal dirt track race with his Suzuki teammate Maverick Viñales and a group of friends on 6th December, and crashed. The crash...
Since the curtain fell on MotoGP™ 2013, Espargaro has had opportunities to familiarise himself with the new FTR-Yamaha package courtesy of test sessions in both Valencia and Jerez - the latest having taken place this week - as he prepares to race 'Open' machinery for the first time. Aleix, which...
The 2014 MotoGP World Championship officially got underway with the first free practice sessions today, under the floodlights of the Losail Circuit in Qatar. With little rubber down on the circuit and some sand blowing across from the desert, grip issues became the number one problem to solve...
Sachsenring is a track which Espargaro enjoys, giving him good results aboard the Aprilia CRT machine last year. Much of the weekend has been spent testing the Forward chassis as opposed to the Yamaha one he has been running so far in 2014. The soft tyre had given Espargaro an edge in the...