MotoGP

IMPERIAL COUNTY — A 14-year-old male was driving an electric motorcycle (e-bike) about 7:40 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, westbound on Aten Road approaching Silsbee Road, while a 17-year-old male was driving a white Toyota Tacoma eastbound on Aten Road approaching Silsbee Road, according to a California Highway Patrol report. For unknown reasons, the e-bike and the Toyota crashed, causing the…

KTM’s leading MoroGP rider Pedro Acosta has admitted that he needs to throttle back his riding in qualifying after a promising Hungarian Grand Prix weekend was derailed by a violent crash. While the KTM bike has taken a step forward over the last two race weekends, Acosta has arguably been guilty of over-riding in qualifying on both of them. At…

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – After a 15-year-old boy died while riding an electric motorbike in Ewa Beach last week, cyclists held a workshop to teach riders about safety. The Honolulu Medical Examiner reported Maddex Fiesta died of blunt force trauma to the head after the collision at around 7:45 a.m. Wednesday. According to police, Fiesta was crossing the intersection of Kolowaka…

Fabio Quartararo will serve a long lap penalty in Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix after causing a race-defining collision at the first corner of the sprint race on Saturday. The factory Yamaha rider ran into Enea Bastianini (Tech3 KTM) after arriving at the first corner far too quickly on an inside line. His actions also heavily compromised the races of Aprilia’s…

MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez cruised to his 13th sprint win in 14 rounds, after avoiding chaos at the first corner at new circuit Balaton Park. The factory Ducati rider continued his unbeaten streak to again extend his championship lead as team-mate Pecco Bagnaia was consigned to his fifth non-score in the last nine sprints. Marquez is now more than…

Yamaha MotoGP rider Fabio Quartararo has incurred a penalty for his actions at the start of the sprint race at new venue Balaton Park. Quartararo steamed into Turn 1 at the start much faster than the riders around him, and eventually ended up forcing Fabio Di Giannantonio, Marco Bezzecchi and Pedro Acosta wide and ramming into Tech3 KTM rider Enea…

WESLEY CHAPEL, Fl. – Residents in several Wesley Chapel neighborhoods say they are increasingly alarmed by teenagers riding illegal electric motorcycles through community streets and onto busy roadways. The vehicles, often sold online as “electric dirt bikes” or “mini-motorcycles,” are drawing complaints for both safety risks and noise, with some residents warning it’s only a matter of time before someone gets…

Tech3 KTM rider Enea Bastianini has questioned the safety of MotoGP races at the new Balaton Park circuit after he was injured during a chaotic first lap in Saturday’s Hungarian Grand Prix sprint. Bastianini was speared wide at the first corner after a desperate lunge by Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo. It was in the course of this collision, for which Quartararo…

Tech3 KTM rider Enea Bastianini has questioned the safety of MotoGP races at the new Balaton Park circuit after he was injured during a chaotic first lap in Saturday’s Hungarian Grand Prix sprint. Bastianini was speared wide at the first corner after a desperate lunge by Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo. It was in the course of this collision, for which Quartararo…

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Electric motorcycles have made remarkable progress in the last decade, transforming from quirky, short-range experiments into fully capable machines that can now stand toe-to-toe with traditional gas-powered counterparts. With instant torque on tap, they deliver thrilling acceleration that even the most powerful combustion engines struggle to match. Add in lower maintenance requirements and zero tailpipe emissions, and the appeal grows…

Dominant MotoGP points leader Marc Marquez says his factory Ducati team-mate Francesco Bagnaia will overcome his widely-documented struggles. Bagnaia, who is a distant third in the championship behind Marc Marquez and has only won once this season, had yet another tough weekend last time out in Austria. After the race, he told reporters he was “running out of patience” with…

Marc Marquez and Valentino Rossi appeared to ignore one another when they crossed paths in the MotoGP pit lane in Austria. It was a clip that went viral on social media. It was all a sideshow from the racing, of course, as Marquez made it 12 victories in a row across Sprint and Grand Prix. But the lasting animosity between…

Pedro Acosta led Marc Marquez by 0.006s in second Friday MotoGP practice at new venue Balaton Park, as Marquez’s team-mate Pecco Bagnaia floundered all the way down in 14th. Bagnaia, who is coming off a chastening Austrian Grand Prix last weekend, had been the quickest Ducati rider when its MotoGP roster went testing road bikes at Balaton, but looked all…

Here’s a true Brit with designs on changing the world. Maeving are a British start-up determined to transform the way we think about electric motorcycles. The entry-level Maeving RM1 – pictured here – is anything but basic. Idea is to provide battery propulsion on a motorbike that draws on the great traditions of British motorcycle engineering. At first glance, you’ve…

The day has come and gone at last. After months of doomtalk around the all-new Balaton Park circuit, MotoGP folk can stop speculating. While the first day of track action at the Hungarian Grand Prix certainly didn’t answer every question that had been doing the rounds in the lead-up, at least there were real MotoGP laps in the record books…

MotoGP duo Alex Marquez and Jack Miller have both received three-place grid penalties for the Hungarian Grand Prix at Balaton Park following an incident in Friday practice. Marquez and Miller were both adjudged to have impeded their rivals at Turn 3 during the crucial late-session push for laptimes to secure a spot in Q2 – which Gresini Ducati rider Marquez…

Marc Marquez topped the first MotoGP practice session at Balaton Park that featured two Aprilias going up in smoke.  Riders spent FP1 trying to get up to speed on the new circuit, which is hosting the first Hungarian Grand Prix on the MotoGP calendar in over 30 years.  But there was early drama as Jorge Martin’s Aprilia RS-GP25 went up…

DRAPER, Utah (KUTV) — Electric motorcycle riders have been tearing up city parks in Draper, and officers have been preparing tougher penalties to stop it. At the corner of Belleview Park, a slope and hillside have become the attraction for some electric motorcycles riders that leave damage on the grassy field. Officials with the Draper City Police Department have issued…