Bad weather at Phillip Island this weekend led to a couple of decisions by the race directors. First, the full MotoGP race was moved to Saturday, and the Sprint to Sunday. Sunday’s weather turned out to be so bad, and dangerous, that the Sprint race was cancelled. In Saturday’s main event, Jorge Martin, who had […]
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MotoGP Cancels Phillip Island Round, Makes Other Calendar Changes for Remainder of Year (News)
We have lost track of the number of times the MotoGP calendar has changed for 2021 (maybe you are keeping count … we are not). Nevertheless, at the outset of the summer break before racing resumes in August, we thought MD should bring you up to date on the change just made yesterday by the […]
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Bautista Dominates WSB Testing at Phillip Island (News)
Alvaro Bautista (Ducati) ran near the front in MotoGP last year on several occasions for Ducati, and now he has moved to the Ducati WSB team to contest the championship aboard the new V4. On his new bike, with new tires, Bautista is already very fast and is perhaps the favorite to win the Phillip […]
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Phillip Island MotoGP Qualifying Results (News) (Race Results)
Newly crowned champ Marc Marquez (Honda) took his fifth straight pole position at Phillip Island earlier today. Light rain caused the riders to exercise caution in Q2 at the high speed track, as Yamaha showed strength from riders Maverick Viñales and Johann Zarco, who will join Marquez on the front row for tomorrow’s race. Several […]
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Phillip Island WSB Results (Race 1) (News) (Race Results)
Marco Melandri (Ducati) won the first race of the 2018 WSB championship series at Phillip Island earlier today. Melandri caught, and passed, the two Kawasaki factory riders, Tom Sykes and Jonathan Rea, who had taken the early lead in the race. Although Sykes held on to take 2nd place at the line, defending champ Rea […]
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Phillip Island WSB Results – Race 2 (News) (Race Results)
In a near duplicate of yesterday’s finish, Race 2 saw Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki) barely ahead of Ducati’s Chaz Davies at the checkered flag, allowing Rea to take a double win at Phillip Island (meaning he now has 40 WSB victories in his career). Following the new grid shake-up for Race 2 (the Race 1 podium […]
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