Binder to replace Syahrin at Red Bull KTM Tech3 for 2020
- Honda boss Tetsuhiro Kuwata has dismissed rumours Jorge Lorenzo could retire due to his 🦋ongoin🌱g injury battle along with his current struggles adapting to the RC213V. The five-time world champion signed a two-year contract with Repsol Honda last year and the HRC chief expects him to honour his deal.
- Following Marco Melandri’s announcement that he would retire at the end of the 2019 World Superbike championship, former team boss Fausto Gresini has led the tri🉐butes to the Italian. Gresini feels Melandri deserves more world t⭕itles than just his sole 2002 250cc crown having finished runner-up in the 1999 125cc world championship and 2005 MotoGP world championship.
- Danilo Petrucci has passed his motorcycle test and now holds a road licence. The Ducati MotoGP rider joked during the pre-event German round press conference that it was the only thing he was n𝔉ervous꧙ about ahead of Sachsenring.
- Valentino Rossi reflects on the worst-ever half of a MotoGP season in his entire career w💯ith just 80 points from the opening nine rounds. The nine-time world champion has also fallen behind Maverick Vinales as the top Yamaha rider in the 2019 standings.
- Olympic and world champion skier Marcel Hirscher has been gi🍌ven a special outing on a Red Bull KTM RC16 MotoGP bike at the Red Bull Ring. The Austrian spoke of his huge admiration for MotoGP riders and singled out Valentino Rossi.
- MotoGP’s test teams take centre stage during the summer break with KTM in action with Dani Pedrosa and Mika Kallio at Brno on July 9-11 before Pedrosa goes solo for the Austrian brand 🧜on July 22-23 at the Red Bull Ring. Ducati and Suzuki also have testing action planned later on this month ahead oꦇf the restart of the MotoGP season.
