Phillip Island, Australia

2018 Phillip Island Moto3 FP2 Result: Canet Beats Martin And Ramirez

By David Emmett | Fri, 26/10/2018 - 07:23

Aron Canet finished the day as the fastest of the Moto3 riders, topping the FP2 session on a much-delayed day at Phillip Island. Championship leader Jorge Martin, who holds a single point advantage over Marco Bezzecchi, was second quickest, just ahead of Marcos Ramirez, while Bezzecchi took fourth, bouncing back from two crashes in the morning.

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2018 Phillip Island MotoGP FP1 Result: Viñales Edges Pramac Ducatis

By David Emmett | Fri, 26/10/2018 - 04:12

Maverick Viñales was fastest of the MotoGP riders, as they got their first session of practice underway at Phillip Island. The Movistar Yamaha rider topped a thankfully dry session, just holding off the joint charges of Jack Miller and Danilo Petrucci on the Pramac Ducatis, both of whom were with a tenth of a second of Viñales. 

2018 Phillip Island Moto2 FP1 Result: Schrotter Leads Binder

By David Emmett | Fri, 26/10/2018 - 04:08

Marcel Schrotter topped the first session of practice for the Moto2 class at Phillip Island, leading Red Bull KTM rider Brad Binder and Mattia Pasini. Phillip Island's notoriously fickle weather played its usual role, holding fair until the end of the session, when rain began to fall.

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2018 Phillip Island Moto3 FP1 Result: Martin Fastest After Lengthy Delay

By David Emmett | Fri, 26/10/2018 - 04:01

Jorge Martin topped the first session of practice for the Moto3 class, when it finally got underway. CIP rider Stefan Nepa dropped oil over roughly half the track, forcing the circuit into a prolonged clean up operation. Nepa was handed a suspension for one session by the FIM Stewards for irresponsible riding, and forced to sit out FP2.

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2018 Phillip Island MotoGP Preview: Why Phillip Island Is Different, And Why Anyone Can Win There

By David Emmett | Thu, 25/10/2018 - 22:50

Race tracks come in all different shapes and sizes, from tight and twisty to wide and sprawling, from slow and ornery to fast and furious. There are boring tracks, adequate tracks, and great tracks. And then there's Phillip Island.

What makes Phillip Island special? A lot of things. Its location, perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Bass Strait, with nothing but a couple of hundred kilometers of open water fed by the Antarctic Ocean between it and Tasmania. The layout, virtually unchanged for decades, which hugs the rolling hills of the Island and flows up and down. The speed: there are only really two places you brake, at Honda Corner and at MG, the rest of the time you're either accelerating, or rolling off before carrying momentum through the turns. The corners: sensuous, flowing curves without sharply delineated corners or straight lines. Peter Paul Rubens, not Pablo Picasso. A track drawn with a pencil, not a computer mouse.

Provisional 2019 MotoGP Calendar: 19 Races With Minor Reshuffles

By David Emmett | Tue, 04/09/2018 - 10:19

Dorna today unveiled the provisional MotoGP calendar for 2019, confirming much of what we already knew. The schedule will consist of 19 races, as the circuit in Mexico City will not be ready to host a MotoGP race next year, and the Kymiring in Finland is also still under construction. Both races are provisionally expected to be on the 2020 calendar.

The calendar is broadly similar to this year's schedule, with a few tweaks. The season kicks off at Qatar on 10th March, earlier than usual and a week before F1, which normally starts before MotoGP. Three weekends later, the series is racing in Argentina at the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit, and two weeks after that, the whole circus heads north for the US round in Austin.

2019 Calendar To Be Announced At Misano: 19 Races, No Mexico, No Finland

By David Emmett | Wed, 29/08/2018 - 22:51

We are a week away from being able to book (provisionally, with free cancellation) to see a race in 2019. The provisional MotoGP calendar for 2019 is due to be published at the Misano round in just under 10 days' time. 

As the official MotoGP.com website revealed over the weekend, there will only be 19 rounds in 2019. The numerical symmetry of that may be pleasing, but there were plans to have 20 races next season. The debut of the Kymiring in Finland has been delayed by a year to 2020, as the circuit will not be ready in time for a 2019 date. And the planned round in Mexico at the Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico City has been dropped, unless the circuit is prepared to make changes.

2018 Phillip Island WorldSBK: What we saw in Australia - A recap of Phillip Island

By Steve English | Wed, 28/02/2018 - 15:30

The opening round of the 2018 WorldSBK season is in the books and certainly provided us with plenty of excitement and plenty to talk about.

New schedule:

The 2018 season will see three free practice sessions on Fridays, and from the outset we saw the benefit of this schedule. In the past, if a rider crashed or had a technical problem on Friday it severely hampered their weekend. Any time lost was magnified because you could easily lose 60 minutes of track time. The new schedule sees three 40 minute session, to ensure the riders have the same amount track time. A crash on his out lap in FP2 saw Alex Lowes miss the entire session and while the loss of track time hampered the Englishman, getting out in FP3 allowed him to set a time good enough for entry into Superpole 2. The schedule will also allow riders to use Friday afternoon for a race simulation, whereas in the past this was harder to achieve.

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