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Enea Bastianini

Barcelona MotoGP Subscriber Notes: Why Turn 1 Is So Dangerous, How Pecco Bagnaia Got Lucky, And Aleix Espargaro's Role In Aprilia's Success

By David Emmett | Mon, 04/09/2023 - 23:11

MotoGP championships are hard to win and incredibly easy to lose. Yesterday, Pecco Bagnaia rode a stupendous race to finish second behind an unstoppable Aleix Espargaro in the sprint race. Today, Bagnaia took off at the start, and saw his race finish after just two corners. He highsided in front of a storming pack, lucky that his teammate Enea Bastianini had messed up the first corner and wiped out five other riders, clearing out the field somewhat and putting the rest on a state of high alert.

The fates smile on Bagnaia on Sunday at Montmeló. Brad Binder was unsighted by Maverick Viñales and Miguel Oliveira, and so had no warning that Bagnaia had crashed in front of him. Yet he managed to deflect his bike just enough that he merely clipped Bagnaia's leg, rather than hit the Italian. Amazingly, though Bagnaia was removed to the medical center by ambulance and examined both there and in a local hospital, he came away with no fractures, just a lot of bruising.

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MotoGP Mugello Sick Bay Update: Pol Espargaro Out, Enea Bastianini And Miguel Oliveira in (Probably)

By David Emmett | Tue, 06/06/2023 - 13:26

With three weekends away from racing, MotoGP's walking wounded have had time to rest and recover, and prepare for a return to racing. At Mugello, there should be 21 of the 22 full-time riders on the grid, and, barring ill fortune and more injuries, a full grid at either the Sachsenring or Assen.

To start with the one certainty, GasGas and the Tech3 team have confirmed that Pol Espargaro will not race at Mugello this weekend. Espargaro is still in the long process of recovering from the harsh injuries sustained in a crash during practice for the first MotoGP round of 2023 at Portimão.

Espargaro had hoped to be fit for the start of the Mugello-Sachsenring-Assen triple header, but received medical advice to miss the Italian Grand Prix. The Spaniard still has some swelling around the vertebrae he injured in the crash in Portugal, so he is waiting for that to recede before racing again.

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Enea Bastianini To Miss Austin Round Of MotoGP - Michele Pirro Brings Number Of Replacement Riders To Three

By David Emmett | Tue, 11/04/2023 - 21:23

Tuesday was decision day for the MotoGP riders who ended the opening round in Portimão in the sick bay. Marc Marquez had already decided not to race in Austin, after injuring himself in the third-lap crash with Miguel Oliveira. Now, Ducati have announced that Enea Bastianini will also be absent in Texas.

Bastianini was injured a day earlier than Marquez, crashing out of the first ever MotoGP sprint race when he was nudged by Luca Marini. The Italian fractured a shoulder blade in the crash, and was forced to miss the Argentina round the week after.

On Tuesday, Bastianini attempted to ride at the Misano circuit on a Ducati Panigale V4S, and then went for a check up with the surgeon treating the Italian, Dr Porcellini. After consultation, Bastianini decided against trying to race in Austin.

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Portimão MotoGP Saturday Notes: Sprint Races, Pros And Cons

By David Emmett | Sun, 26/03/2023 - 01:16

If Friday was the warm up for the new schedule, Saturday was when it hit home hardest. The familiar pattern – FP3 in the morning, including a mad dash for a spot in Q2 in the final 15 minutes, then FP4 in the early afternoon followed immediately by qualifying – was gone. In its place, a lot of confused journalists (well, at least one, myself), suddenly confused by the fact that it was not yet 11am and MotoGP was already starting Q1.

Moto2 and Moto3 had a more normal pattern – they kicked off a little earlier in the morning, and qualifying was a little later in the afternoon than last year – but after qualifying for the Moto2 class, it was time for the first ever MotoGP sprint race. That turned into a genuine barn burner, in both senses of the phrase. It was exciting. It was something new. And it was really rather scary.

The day held a lot of surprises. Lap records tumbled in all three classes: by just under a tenth of a second in Moto2, half a second in Moto3, and by a whopping 1.5 seconds in MotoGP. Bikes and riders we had written off stunned the fans. Riders we had hyped up disappeared were utterly faceless. There is no substitute for racing to uncover the reality.

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The 2023 MotoGP Season Preview: Anything But A Foregone Conclusion

By David Emmett | Fri, 24/03/2023 - 00:31

Writing MotoGP season previews used to be a relatively simple affair: discuss the four or five riders who had a realistic chance of winning the championship, compare the strengths and weaknesses of the Yamaha vs the Honda, and ask whether Ducati have done enough this year to catch up. A few notes on the remainder of the grid, and you were done.

Previewing the 2023 MotoGP season is potentially a much more time-consuming affair. All 22 riders on the 2023 grid have grand prix victories to their name in one class or another. All five MotoGP factories had bikes on the podium last year, and only Honda didn't score a win. There are 13 world champions lining up in MotoGP in 2023. To say the grid is stacked with talent is an understatement.

Potential champions this year? Obviously Pecco Bagnaia has a good chance of defending. But Yamaha have given Fabio Quartararo the extra speed he was missing to be able to challenge. Enea Bastianini could well surprise and upset his factory Ducati teammate. Aprilia have refined the RS-GP to a point where Aleix Espargaro is a serious candidate, and there is no doubting the talent of his teammate Maverick Viñales either. Jorge Martin has a better bike and a point to prove, and sprint races will play right into his hands. Miguel Oliveira is very much in the same boat. And it would be foolish to write Marc Marquez off, whatever the state of the Honda at the moment.

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The Human Engine - Luigi Dall'Igna

By Tammy Gorali | Tue, 07/03/2023 - 11:50

The CEO of Ducati Corse, the racing division of the manufacturer that won the jackpot in the 2022 racing season, sat in the snow during the launch of Ducati's 2023 season, with a glass of prosecco in hand, for a personal conversation and ... engineered

Luigi, or Gigi as everyone calls him, Dall'Igna always dreamed of working in racing. He graduated in mechanical engineering at the University of Padua with a thesis on carbon monocoque chassis. Almost straight out of university he moved to the Aprilia factory in Noale, Italy. Over more than two decades, he led Aprilia to championship titles in World Superbikes and the 125 and 250 cc categories in MotoGP, with riders such as Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Alvaro Bautista, Marco Melandri, Manuel Poggiali, and Max Biaggi of course.

Then Dall'Igna surprised the world of motorsport when he accepted an offer from rival manufacturer Ducati. Since graduating, he has only worked for Aprilia, except for a very short time in 2005 when he worked for Derbi. For the 2014 season, Dall'Igna was on his way to try to make the difference, as he did in Aprilia, only this time for the factory in Bologna.

Gigi is considered a legend, a magician, a brain, and Ducati was very excited by the arrival of someone who later made radical changes in the racing department. Ducati were in a crisis, after a long decline which had started shortly after winning their first title with Casey Stoner in 2007. The culmination of the crisis was the failure with one of the greatest riders ever, Valentino Rossi. Ducati knew that in order to come back and win, replacing riders would not be enough this time.

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Cormac Shoots The MotoGP Finale: Shots From The Showdown

By David Emmett | Thu, 10/11/2022 - 17:10


How it started ...


How it ended

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Cormac Shoots Sepang: If You Can't Stand The Heat...

By David Emmett | Tue, 25/10/2022 - 20:14


Nearly there. After a disastrous qualifying, Pecco Bagnaia took a huge step toward winning his first MotoGP title

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Sepang MotoGP Saturday Round Up: Of Pressure, Tows, Bumps, And Championships

By David Emmett | Sat, 22/10/2022 - 22:02

There is a cliché about sports events having a "pressure cooker atmosphere", but in the case of the Sepang MotoGP race, it is almost literally true. A combination of withering heat, completely saturated humidity, and incredible pressure is cooking up an explosive climax to the MotoGP championship.

With a championship on the line, the pressure is plain to see. In the previous 18 races, Pecco Bagnaia had just 12 crashes. On Saturday, he added another two to that tally. Fabio Quartararo has had six crashes in the 18 races before this weekend, and added another during FP4, fracturing a finger in his left hand in the process. Likewise Aleix Espargaro, who has added another two crashes this weekend, taking his total to 13. For the record, the current crash leader is Darryn Binder, with 22.

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Aragon MotoGP Subscriber Notes, Part 2: The Nonsense Of Team Orders, And Losing Out At The Start

By David Emmett | Wed, 21/09/2022 - 00:02

Much of the attention after Sunday's race went to what happened at the front: Enea Bastianini beating fellow Ducati rider Pecco Bagnaia, Brad Binder firing from mid pack to the front in the first couple of corners, and of course, the massive crash caused by Fabio Quartararo hitting the back of Marc Marquez' Repsol Honda, and in the aftermath, Marquez and Takaaki Nakagami colliding, and Marquez being forced to pull out of the race with a piece of Quartararo's fairing stuck in his rear wheel.

But that meant that some of the things which went on behind were overlooked in the media overload. Aleix Espargaro's return to the podium puts him right back in the championship chase. Brad Binder showed his exceptional class to finish fourth, and nearly on the podium. And some of the riders who felt they had the pace to make up ground in the first couple of laps after qualifying badly.

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