Live updates for the MotoGP warm-up then Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP races from the 2021 Austrian MotoGP at the Red Bull Ring!
 

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The MotoGP World Championship༒ holds its first back-to-back races of the season with teams and 🐈riders remaining at the Red Bull Ring for a second weekend.

Rookie Jorge✨ Martin claimed his and Pramac Ducati's first ever MotoGP victory in last Sunday's Styria🍌n round, where he was joined on the podium by Joan Mir and Fabio Quartararo.

All three had good reason to be happy with Mir using Suzuki's new rear ride-height syst🐻em for the first time and Quartararo extending his title lead over nearest rival Johann Zarco at a power hungry/hard braking circuit that is traditionally tough for the Yamahas.

Quartararo will start the second weekend with a 40-point lead over countryman Zarco (Pramac Ducati) with Mir now ahead of Francesco Bagnaia for third place (-51 points൲).

Bagnaia, who was leading the original race until a fiery accident for Dani Pedrosa and 𒈔Lorenzo Savadori, struggled for rear grip at the restart and is now 58 points adrift of Quartararo.

With team-mate Jack Miller now 72 points behind after falling while in🐻 pursuit of Quartararo last Sunday, is the t൩itle chase down to just four riders?

Miller wasn't the only rider having a race to forget with Maverick Vinales forced to start from pit lane after stalling ahead of the restart (and being🌄 taunted by technical issues thereafter).

KTM's Miguel Oliveira retired with a front tyre defect (Michelin has changed th𒈔e hard option for this weekend as a precaution) and Aprilia's Al𝕴eix Espargaro suffered a technical failure after twice clashing with Marc Marquez at Turn 1.

Pedrosa and Savadori will both be absent this weekend, the KTM test rider not (yet) planning a repeat of last Sunday's wild-card entry wh☂ile Savadori underwent surgery o🐬n an ankle injury.

But Yamaha test rider Cal Crutchlow, ꦏriding in place of Franco Morbidelli at Petronas, will be back on track for the second of his three scheduled🌌 appearances.

One rider missing will be Maverick Vinales, sensationally suspended by Yamaha for 'unexplained irregular𒈔 operation of the motorcycle' during last Sunday's race, rumoured to meaꩲn he was deliberately over-revving the bike in frustration after a stall and further technical gremblins.