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48 Hours From Madrid To Motegi - Alex Rins Returns To MotoGP For The Japanese Grand Prix

By David Emmett | Thu, 28/09/2023 - 14:52

It's been a very intense 48 hours or so for Alex Rins. On Tuesday, the LCR Honda rider was in Madrid for a medical checkup on the right leg he broke during the sprint race at Mugello. On Wednesday he was boarding a flight for Japan, preparing to get back on a MotoGP bike for the first time since that crash on June 10th. At 6am on Thursday he landed at Narita Airport near Tokyo, Japan, before heading to Motegi.

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Alex Rins Still Out: Iker Lecuona To Fill LCR Honda Seat At Barcelona

By David Emmett | Tue, 29/08/2023 - 14:48

Alex Rins' long road to recovery continues. In a posting on Social Media, the LCR Honda squad have announced that the Spaniard will miss his home grand prix in Barcelona this weekend. Rins' place is once again to be taken by Iker Lecuona, who replaced the Spaniard at the Red Bull Ring as well.

Rins is still working on a return to fitness after a horrendous crash at Mugello, where he smashed the tibia and fibula in his right leg. When he spoke to the media two weeks ago in Austria, Rins explained he was only able to put around 30kg of weight on the leg, less than half his bodyweight. He was also suffering nerve pain in the leg.

Two weeks on from that, Rins' condition will be better than in Austria, but clearly still not enough to ride in Barcelona. With Misano the week after Barcelona, it seems unlikely that the Spaniard will be ready to return to action by then either.

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The Aftermath - Pol Espargaro And Alex Rins On Injury, Pain, Recovery, And Long-Term Consequences

By David Emmett | Fri, 25/08/2023 - 23:03

When MotoGP fans dream of the glamorous life of a MotoGP rider, there are a few details they gloss over. Yes, there's the thrill of riding the fastest, most specialized racing motorcycles on the fact of the planet, at the best racetracks in the world. But along with the thrills come the spills, and with the spills comes the pain.

Despite the incredible advances made in protective gear – helmets, leathers, airbags, protectors - once the MotoGP season starts, a rider is never free of pain. Usually just small niggles or injuries, bruises, cuts, scrapes, rashes, minor fractures, pulled muscles, arm pump, cramp, stretched ligaments or tendons. Sometimes bigger issues, as collarbones, wrists, ankles, and hips heal.

And then there are the really big injuries. Think of the two miserable years Marc Marquez went through after crashing at Jerez in 2020 and breaking his humerus. With infection, nerve pain, and bone that was healing rotated by 30°, Marquez was in pain pretty much all the time, on and off the bike.

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Lin Jarvis Interview, Part 1: Why Yamaha Swapped Morbidelli For Rins, And How The Japanese Factories Fell Behind

By David Emmett | Tue, 15/08/2023 - 21:42

It has been a turbulent time for the Japanese manufacturers. Yamaha and Honda have dominated MotoGP for years, but now they find themselves struggling to score points, far removed from their former competitive selves. Monster Energy Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo went from winning the MotoGP crown in 2021, to finishing runner up to Pecco Bagnaia last year, to languishing down in eleventh place in the championship, 149 points behind the leader Bagnaia.

At least Yamaha are in better shape than Honda. The 2023 Yamaha M1 is not a bad bike, it is just slow, with aggressive power delivery. Quartararo managed a podium in Austin, and another in the sprint race in Assen, showing that in the right conditions, the bike still has a chance to be competitive.

That is not going to be enough to allow Quartararo to compete for a championship over a full season, however. To achieve that, much bigger changes are needed, both in terms of engineering and the entire development process.

The person charged with overseeing the European side of that process is Yamaha Motor Racing's Managing Director Lin Jarvis. He is the counterpart to Takahiro Sumi, who leads Yamaha's Motorsports Development Division, and Kazutoshi Seki, who is MotoGP Group Leader and the YZR-M1 Project Leader. Improving the synergy between the European and Japanese parts of Yamaha's MotoGP project is going to be key to making progress.

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The Dominoes Start To Fall: Yamaha Announce Morbidelli To Leave, Rins To Take His Place In Monster Energy Yamaha For 2024

By David Emmett | Wed, 02/08/2023 - 10:14

As predicted earlier this week, Silverstone has seen the first movement in the rider market for MotoGP for 2024. On Wednesday before the British Grand Prix, Yamaha have announced they are parting ways with Franco Morbidelli at the end of 2023 and signing Alex Rins for the 2024 season.

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News Update: Alex Rins To Miss Silverstone, Cal Crutchlow To Wildcard At Motegi

By David Emmett | Tue, 25/07/2023 - 10:37

With the resumption of the 2023 MotoGP season approaching, some real news is starting to emerge ahead of the British GP at Silverstone. Iker Lecuona is set to replace the still recovering Alex Rins aboard the LCR Honda bike at Silverstone, and Yamaha have announced that Cal Crutchlow is to make a wildcard appearance at the Japanese round of MotoGP in Motegi.

First, to Rins. The LCR Honda rider is still recovering from the broken tibia and fibula he suffered at Mugello. That injury was so serious that recovery is a long process. On recent photos posted to social media at the weekend, to mark the celebration of his wedding, Rins was using crutches and seated in a wheelchair. Other photos on his social media accounts show him wearing a support boot and with a thin right leg, from a lack of training.

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Assen MotoGP Post-Race Subscriber Notes, Part 2: Honda's Deep, Deep Hole

By David Emmett | Sun, 09/07/2023 - 22:33

Assen is two weeks behind us, and there are still lessons to be learned, albeit extremely belatedly (for which you have my sincere apologies). In part 1 of my Assen review, I looked at just how strong Ducati has become and how Race Direction views track limits. Since then, there have been reports that Dorna is looking at ways for reappraising the way concessions are calculated, to give Honda and Yamaha a chance to catch up as the European manufacturers disappear into the horizon. So it makes sense to start with a look back at Honda's difficult weekend at Assen.

If the Sachsenring had raised doubts about Marc Marquez' long term future with Honda, Assen kicked those doubts into high gear. Marquez' Honda RC213V spat him off during morning warm up in Germany, breaking a bone in his left thumb and cracking a rib. That had shaken Marquez up, mainly because the crash had happened without warning.

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MotoGP Assen Sick Bay Update: Marc Marquez Back, Iker Lecuona In For Joan Mir, Stefan Bradl Replaces Alex Rins

By David Emmett | Wed, 21/06/2023 - 16:39

The MotoGP grid continues to be plagued by injury, as a series of crashes have taken their toll on the riders. The combination of a tight field and a hectic new schedule has ramped up the pressure on riders and teams, and no doubt contributed to the crashes.

Whether the new format is to blame for the inordinate number of Honda riders out with injury is doubtful. The current iteration of the Honda RC213V seems perfectly capable of injuring riders under any circumstances, which is why there will be two replacement riders at Assen.

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Mugello MotoGP Friday Round Up: Pressure And Injury, The Importance Of Strategy, And What Honda And Yamaha Have Gotten Wrong

By David Emmett | Fri, 09/06/2023 - 23:49

We feared rain, but it did not come. Instead, Friday brought spectacular weather, Mugello bathing in the warm sunshine which leads press release writers to wax poetical about circuits nestling in the Tuscan hills. The action was spectacular too, both good and bad. In addition to a frantic and thrilling final 10 minutes of Practice 2 for the MotoGP class, there were some terrifying crashes.

Rory Skinner gave a masterclass in destroying a Kalex Moto2 machine, bringing out the red flags while the marshals removed the debris from the track. Syarifuddin Azman had a huge highside in Moto3, which left him hanging in the air for long enough to write the first chapter of his autobiography. Aleix Espargaro chucked his Aprilia in the gravel in Practice 1, Fabio Di Giannantonio tried a very ill-timed pass on Alex Rins into San Donato at the end of P2, and Joan Mir got flicked off at Biondetti 2 to bring his day, and indeed weekend, to an early end.

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Le Mans MotoGP Post-Race Part 3: Rise And Fall Of KTM, Marquez Returns, And Quartararo Winds Back The Clock

By David Emmett | Wed, 17/05/2023 - 23:30

If you had made your MotoGP fantasy picks for the Le Mans grand prix on Friday evening, as I did, you would have been all in on Jack Miller and KTM. The Australian was fastest in both the morning and afternoon sessions, and his pace looked good too. Teammate Brad Binder was third in the morning, seventh in the afternoon, and on pace for another strong result.

Or so it seemed. Qualifying went reasonably for Miller, the Red Bull KTM rider ending up in fourth, just behind polesitter Pecco Bagnaia. Brad Binder had a tougher time, struggling with the front tire locking, and ending up in tenth on the grid.

In the sprint race on Saturday, Binder made up for his poor qualifying by getting one of his trademark rocketship starts and steaming through to finish second, behind an unleashed Jorge Martin. Miller chose the medium front, on the advice of KTM and Michelin, and ended up losing the front at Musée, always a tricky spot when the left-hand side of the tire isn't quite up to temperature. But both riders had shown real potential.

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