
Scott Redding's opening MotoGP free practice session at Qatar today was brought to almost a total halt by electronic problems with his Go&Fun Gresini Honda RCV1000R. The British rider only managed ten laps in the session with a quickest of 1'58.495 which put him in 19th and more than three...
Qatar MotoGP Test Day (Night) Two Quote Machine Bautista Fastest In The Desert Saturday, March 08, 2014 These just in: Aspar Drive M7 DRIVE M7 ASPAR TEAM CONTINUE PRESEASON PREPARATIONS IN QATAR Nicky Hayden completes satisfactory race simulation as Hiroshi Aoyama finds set-up improvements The...
Qatar is a tough place to test. First, there's the timing. The track is open between 4pm and 11pm, giving a full seven hours of track time. In theory, that is. In practice, the first two hours are pretty much unusable, as track temperatures are much higher during daylight than after the sun...
Who starts the 2015 MotoGP season as favorite for the championship? The final test at Qatar will give us a much clearer picture of where the factories and riders stand than the last two tests in Sepang. That is in part due to the fact that the factories have had time between the Sepang tests and...
Go&Fun Honda's Scott Redding is getting to the bottom of his problem switching from Brembo to Nissin brakes and was only fractionally slower than HRC stablemate Nicky Hayden on the first day of MotoGP testing at Qatar. The Gloucestershire rider set a 1'57.922 in the desert last night compared to...
ALVARO BAUTISTA (1'55"232 - 50 LAPS) "In today's race simulation we have collected some very important data to work on during the first Grand Prix weekend, although we still encountered some problems, like in the first two days of testing here at Losail. We are still struggling because of the...
Many (though not all) questions were answered at the Qatar MotoGP test. One of the most frustrating questions of the 2017 preseason has been answered at last, however. For weeks, MotoGP pundits have been puzzling over what could be in the 'salad box' slung under the tail of the Ducati...