Monster Yamaha arrives at this weekend’s opening Misano MotoGP round
with the benefit of recent private testing at the Italian track. Unfortunately for Fabio Quartararo, who were left 17th in qualifying
at the slippery Aragon last weekend, the Frenchman’s time attack “didn't go so well” at Misano in testing. But he hopes that more rubber during the race weekend will help his chances,
at a track where he has twice finished runner-up and secured the 2021 MotoGP title. Team-mate Alex Rins was just 21st in qualifying at Aragon but salvaged
his best result of the season with ninth in the grand prix, after a last lap pass on KTM’s Jack Miller Team director Massimo Meregalli confirmed the private test data will be “the starting point this weekend. Despite scoring just 2 points from the last two rounds, Quartararo remains comfortably the top
rider on a Japanese bike, with 51 points for 14th in the standings. The top Honda of Takaaki Nakagami is 18th, with 18 points,
while Rins – who missed two rounds due the injury – is 20th with 15 points. Official: Yamaha signs Miguel Oliveira for Pramac in MotoGP 2025 Pecco Bagnaia apologises: “Sorry to Alex Marquez for the strong words” MotoGP championship leader Jorge Martin says his dominance of the 2023
Misano round but “doesn’t matter now” ahead of this year’s San Marino Grand Prix. MotoGP championship leader Jorge Martin says his dominance of the 2023
Misano round but “doesn’t matter now” ahead of this year’s San Marino Grand Prix. Pedro Acosta’s Sunday podium was helped by the Francesco Bagnaia-Alex Marquez collision in the closing stages of Aragon grandprix Sunday but fifth place would still have been his best grand prix finish since Mugello. “Pedro Acosta’s confidence level will be at the maximum after a dreamy weekend in Spain, but we will see if the comeback to basics will also work on this layout, very different to MotorLand ” said Tech3 team manager Nicolas Goyon. “One thing is sure, he is fully motivated, and he won in Moto2 last season, so we know he likes Misano.”