Jack’s one-two punch and French double podium at Le Mans After a completely botched start to the season, Jack Miller was resurrected in Jerez de la Frontera with his victory, which was undoubtedly also due to the arm pump problems of the previous leader Quartararo. But in the home of the French there was definitely […]
Le Mans Sunday live
MotoGP Grand Prix of Le Mans in the live blog Qualifying was already a thriller, but on race day the starter, main course and dessert will follow. It starts at 11 a.m. local time and a new winner in Moto3 wouldn’t be a surprise. With the world championship leader in 21st place on the grid, […]
Calendar criticism
To more or less justified criticism on Saturday in the Le Mans press conference FIM and Dorna caused real chaos with their calendar planning for November 6, 2020. Not only we were amazed at the time how one could come up with such a nonsensical plan. With Argentina and USA as rounds 3 and 4 […]
Look back Le Mans Saturday
The MotoGP qualifying – sensational surprises abound Friday at Le Mans was a whole new world in many ways. Many riders like Pol Espargaró, Petrux and the rookies rode their bikes, which were still quite new to them, on a wet track for the first time that morning. Because the conditions had allowed it for […]
Le Mans Saturday live
French Grand Prix in Le Mans – Saturday live blog On race day the order is as usual, with Moto3 first, followed by Moto2 and MotoGP. Nevertheless, the sequence in practice and qualifying for the weekend of the French Grand Prix remains reversed. As before in Jerez de la Frontera, the premier class drives on […]
The Honda problem
In search of supposed performance problems from Honda We looked around Le Mans all Friday looking for alleged problems with Honda, but we found absolutely nothing. We didn’t find anything in Jerez de la Frontera either, on the contrary. There the brave Takaaki missed the podium by a ridiculous 0.6 seconds and in the end […]
Look back Le Mans Friday
Yamaha Festival on the first day – Rossi can still do it! Despite all prophecies of doom, the old master proved to all critics that he can still do it. While all Suzuki and except for Oliveira all KTM pilots stumbled, Valentino Rossi made it into the top ten and all Yamaha’s are provisionally in […]
The wake-up call
Cancellation of the Finnish MotoGP Grand Prix At the end of the MotoGP FP1 at Le Mans it was announced that the Finnish GP had also been cancelled this season due to the pandemic. The question is whether this will also serve as a signal for other races in Europe. On July 11th this would […]
Le Mans Friday live
French Grand Prix in Le Mans – Friday live blog On race day the order is as usual, with Moto3 first, followed by Moto2 and MotoGP. Nevertheless, the sequence in practice and qualifying for the weekend of the French Grand Prix remains reversed. As before in Jerez de la Frontera, the premier class drives on […]
Voices before Le Mans
Some rider voices from the press conference Pecco Bagnaia: “Everything is fine with me, we have to take it race after race, which also applies to here at Le Mans. I like the track a lot, but last year I had problems in the second part of the race. As the forecast looks, it will […]