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Pretty much anything can happen in a MotoGP race at the Red Bull Ring, as this array of crashes and wild finishes (plus some sabotage) proves.

He got stuck right in to the middle of the MotoGP mid-pack knife fight when the lights went out. – as everyone in front headed for the pits and wet rubber. There have been rider meltdowns in the past, many of them. The Red Bull Ring duel was one of the greatest. That status was magnified a little by its disproportionate place on the schedule in recent years, as it hosted two races in both 2020 and 2021 thanks to Red Bull’s financial backing meaning it was possible to race there repeatedly without worrying about ticket sales during the pandemic recovery period. Well, as it turns out, three riders doing the same thing! This time, there was a twist. Miller launched a lunge on Espargaro. In the early stages of Ducati’s MotoGP project, success had been plentiful. By 2016, things were once again on the up. Except this time it was Marquez who led into the final sector – and Dovizioso who was able to make the move that Marquez had previously attempted stick this time for his second Red Bull Ring win from three and Ducati’s fourth Austria victory in a row. By the time the middle of the 2017 season came around, Dovizioso and Ducati had cemented themselves as title rivals to Marc Marquez and Honda, and Dovizioso had shown that he was more than capable of taking on Marquez in a last corner duel.

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Ducati's Francesco Bagnaia held onto a third-successive victory at the MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix as Fabio Quartararo took a damage-limiting second at the ...

Securing his and the VR46 team’s first MotoGP podium, Marco Bezzecchi has all the characteristics that made his mentor special With Suzuki quitting, Honda struggling to get near the podium and Yamaha only enjoying success courtesy of Fabio Quartararo, Japanese manufacturers have been left in the dust by their European counterparts. Prior to the summer break, the 2022 MotoGP title looked like it was Fabio Quartararo’s to lose.

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Contrary to the intiial suggestion, MotoGP will not count sprint race wins and podiums the same as conventional GP wins and podiums.

“There will be a podium for the sprint race, but it will not count for the total number of podiums that the rider has. So a rider will have a number of fastest laps, a number of poles, a number of podiums for which it will only count the podiums of the Sunday, and a number of victories. “We’re basically changing one practice for a sprint Race which will give points, meaning that from now on for the historical data, it will be the Sunday that continues to give the GP winner.

Race results from the Austrian MotoGP at the Red Bull Ring, round 13 (of 20) in the 2022 world championship.

Rookie Darryn Binder produced a stunning first lap to climb from 21st to the edge of the top ten before later crashing out. Worse was to follow for the Italian, who ran wide several times before spearing off into the gravel and retirement with some sort of front-end technical issue. Up front, Miller began pressuring Bagnaia for the lead, the Australian making several unsuccessful lunges.

MotoGP: "It'll be really tough on the first lap. The last rider to win three races in a row with Ducati was Stoner? I don't want to focus on that.

I’m happy with my FP4, and I put myself in the fight to stay ahead.” I don’t suffer that much wear on the tires, but I don’t want to think about the victory. “I think it’s hard to get an opening. “I started this weekend suffering but, in the FPs, I found the speed and perseverance that will allow me to stay ahead. The only problem was the fall.” But the happy ending finally arrived, with a 2nd place on the grid and a handful of tenths on Bastianini.

The Austrian circuit smiles down at Enea Bastianini, who snatched the pole by a few tenths of a second from Pecco and his official Ducati. The Gresini team's ...

I think they’re very close in terms of competitiveness, so it’s all about trying to maintain the right concentration to be able to face the last races to the fullest of my potential.” “It’s easy from the outside to think of solutions of this kind, but things are different in the race. “The start will have to be good, but it won’t be like in Qatar. “In the last few races before the summer break, I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be. Everyone will want to be ahead in that sector of the track.” The Gresini team’s Italian rider will start at the top of the grid tomorrow.

MotoGP: "Basically we are changing a test session for a Sprint Race that will give points, historically, racers will have an extra row of data.

So a rider will have a number of fastest laps, a number of poles, a number of podiums for which it will only count the podiums of the Sunday, and a number of victories. There will be a podium for the Sprint race, but it will not count for the total number of podiums that the rider has. For MotoGP it will be different.

Bagnia dominated from start to finish and continues to cut points, while Quartararo gave another coup finishing second.

Remy Gardner – 9 points Darryn Binder – 21 points Alex Marquez – 27 points Pol Espargaro – 42 points Luca Marini – 56 points Marc Marquez – 60 points Marco Bezzecchi – 61 points Joan Mir – 77 points Jorge Martin – 81 points Miguel Oliveira – 81 points Brad Binder – 98 points Aleix Espargaro – 158 points

It's three wins in a row for the Italian as Quartararo runs him close at the Red Bull Ring.

Marco Bezzecchi (Mooney VR46 Racing Team) claimed P9 ahead of Martin in 10th, the latter able to remount after his last lap tumble at Turn 1. The title race pendulum is definitely swinging towards Bagnaia at this moment in time, and coming up next is the Italian’s home race at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli – a track he knows like the back of his hand. Pecco took victory by just 0.4s to make it a hat-trick and reduce the gap to the Frenchman to 44 points, with Miller on the podium again in P3. Quartararo got a decent start but at the end of the first lap, Maverick Viñales (Aprilia Racing) passed the Frenchman to demote the Championship leader to P6. Fourth place for Marini is the Italian’s best result in the premier class to date, he eventually held off Zarco in fifth by less than half a second. The latter made a mistake at the chicane with 12 laps to go and was forced to give the position up to Quartararo, but did Martin then have a problem? With four laps to go, a sensational move at Turn 2B saw Quartararo carve his way past Miller up into P2. Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing), meanwhile, didn’t get a good getaway after his holeshot device didn’t engage but the number 41 recovered to P7 at the beginning of the second lap. Miller overtook Bastianini at Turn 3 and Martin then had a successful bite at the cherry, only for Bastianini to snap back at Turn 1 on Lap 5. Viñales then made a mistake down at Turn 4, the Spaniard dropped behind Aleix Espargaro and Johann Zarco (Prima Pramac Racing), before drama unfolded further up the road. For the first time in his career Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team) is a hat-trick hero after leading from start to finish in a tense CryptoDATA Motorrad Grand Prix von Österreich. This saw Bagnaia and Miller open a one second advantage over Martin, Quartararo was a further 1.3s away in P4 with Espargaro and Viñales P5 and P6.

Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro says he 'doesn't understand' why the media doesn't like the fact his MotoGP title battle with Fabio Quartararo is so friendly.

OPINION: Fabio Quartararo has seized control of the 2022 MotoGP world standings after another dominant victory as his nearest rivals faltered. With Suzuki quitting, Honda struggling to get near the podium and Yamaha only enjoying success courtesy of Fabio Quartararo, Japanese manufacturers have been left in the dust by their European counterparts. Prior to the summer break, the 2022 MotoGP title looked like it was Fabio Quartararo’s to lose.

Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo says he was 'on qualifying mode' in every lap of Sunday's MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix to fight for the podium at the Red Bull Ring.

OPINION: Fabio Quartararo has seized control of the 2022 MotoGP world standings after another dominant victory as his nearest rivals faltered. With Suzuki quitting, Honda struggling to get near the podium and Yamaha only enjoying success courtesy of Fabio Quartararo, Japanese manufacturers have been left in the dust by their European counterparts. Prior to the summer break, the 2022 MotoGP title looked like it was Fabio Quartararo’s to lose.

Francesco Bagnaia held off a late charge from Fabio Quartararo to win his third consecutive MotoGP race and tie Casey Stoner's record as the only.

However, it was confirmed by the Italian rider’s team that a deflating front tyre led to him retiring from the race on lap seven. Mir’s early retirement has resulted in back-to-back DNF’s for the Spaniard. [Maverick Vinales](/motogp/racer/1689/maverick-vinales) took fifth place off [Fabio Quartararo](/motogp/racer/911998/fabio-quartararo) after making a brilliant move on the brakes heading into turn nine.

The Italian led virtually all 28 laps around the Red Bull Ring although his lead was only 0.492s at the chequered flag, with Ducati Lenovo team-mate Jack Miller ...

Repsol Honda Team WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Aprilia Racing Ducati Ducati Lenovo Team

MotoGP rookies Remy Gardner and Darryn Binder both admit their chances of staying in the premier class in 2023 are now virtually non-existent.

Binder’s admission suggests that Oliveira may still take up the RNF offer, considering the only alternatives to Oliveira for the Razlan Razali-run team would theoretically be either Gardner or a Moto2 graduate – and Razali has made it clear he’s not keen on running a rookie in his first year with Aprilia. You just said it. Tech3 officially bringing in Pol Espargaro – as part of the announcement that it would become the works Gas Gas MotoGP team next year – meant one of Gardner or Fernandez would have to make way, and it was long understood the latter would be the one separating from the KTM family.

Miguel Oliveira is back in the frame for a ride on an RC16 in 2023, a bombshell dropped by with KTM Motorsports Director Pit Beirer at the Austrian Grand Prix.

With Pol Espargaro already confirmed on one of the GasGas entries, Gardner could only agree when it was put to him by media at the Red Bull Ring that his future is ‘not looking great’. Currently at Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, Oliveira appeared set to leave the Austrian marque when he learnt that he would have to accept a demotion to Tech3 to stay. Remy Gardner admits he is all but out of MotoGP at the end of the season amid multiple threats to his ride at Tech3.

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He worked (and won), first with Yamaha, then with Suzuki, so he knows the mentality of the Japanese and their working method very well. It wasn’t what he expected, and so he’s probably feeling nostalgic for the MotoGP. Marc Marquez made it clear on Thursday that something needs to be changed in Honda.

Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo says he was 'on qualifying mode' in every lap of Sunday's MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix to fight for the podium at the Red Bull Ring.

OPINION: Fabio Quartararo has seized control of the 2022 MotoGP world standings after another dominant victory as his nearest rivals faltered. With Suzuki quitting, Honda struggling to get near the podium and Yamaha only enjoying success courtesy of Fabio Quartararo, Japanese manufacturers have been left in the dust by their European counterparts. Prior to the summer break, the 2022 MotoGP title looked like it was Fabio Quartararo’s to lose.

Austrian Grand Prix poleman Enea Bastianini has explained the reason behind his early exit from the Red Bull Ring MotoGP event.

“And I broke the wheel. And arriving into Turn 4, I went straight [on].” “I went a little bit wide [out of Turn 9], and when I opened the throttle, I lost a little bit the rear, and the front wheel touched the kerb,” Bastianini explained.

MotoGP: At the point where it bent, the rim let the air escape from the tire resulting in the DNF of Enea.

While thankful of the claims made by Aleix Espargaro that he's the best rider on the MotoGP grid, Fabio Quartararo felt uneasy when discussing the.

Today, I fought like a Lion." "But to prepare for an overtake is the most difficult thing for us. "Of course, the Ducati is really strong but it’s not only the Ducatis.

It was a stunning day for Japanese motorsport as Ayumu Sasaki and Ai Ogura took victory in the Moto3 and Moto2 classes at the MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix.

[British GP: Full Moto2 and Moto3 race results](/moto2/news/motogp-british-gp-full-moto2-and-moto3-race-results/10350187/) [MotoGP Austrian GP: Full Moto2 and Moto3 race results](/moto3/news/motogp-austrian-gp-full-moto2-and-moto3-race-results/10355787/) Seizing the lead on the opening lap, Sasaki wound up in 18th after serving his penalties.