Motogp’s Most Controversial Moments – But MUCH, MUCH better – you’ll have your screenwriters and screenwriters come up with this rather unbelievable tale of a tournament that takes place inside a racetrack’s giant stadium.
First, there’s your number one star, entering this grand final as the clear favorite, cheered on by a hundred thousand spectators. The film is about to reach its climax when a brutal plot twist causes the superstar to fall flat on his face, much to the dismay of tens of thousands of adoring fans.
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At that point, the cameras shift their focus to the plucky underdog, the superstar’s great rival, who fights back from the cruelest of fates to claim the greatest prize of them all, against the odds, at the last breath.
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And then you have the sub-plot, about a great underdog, who discovers true magic in a new brand of front tire used by his old team, who fired him two years before. This rider is determined to get revenge and a big pot of gold. He rode for free but was promised a huge bonus if he won the race, because no one expected him to win the race.
Inevitably, he won the race. And then there are subplots to subplots. The winner’s wife is at home in Monaco, celebrating her birthday, watching the race at a local bar, drinking margaritas. As her husband took the checkered flag, she sobbed into her cocktail, while the undeserving world champion broke down during her victory lap and the superstar stayed out all night to drown her sorrows.
Valentino Rossi was not happy when Yamaha signed Jorge Lorenzo at the start of 2008, as he knew the 250cc world champion was the first team-mate who would really threaten him on track.
Five races into the 2009 championship Rossi’s fears have been realized – Lorenzo leads him by points – so he needs to stop the rot. He did it in Barcelona in great fashion, battling the Spaniard throughout, then making a superb pass in the high-speed final lap to win the race by nine hundredths of a second. Rossi went on to win championships, but Lorenzo’s rising status saw the Italian quit Yamaha at the end of 2010 and move to Ducati. How many world tiles might he win if he stays?
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Two weeks after his MotoGP debut in Qatar, Marc Márquez took his first victory at COTA in the United States, a feat that made him the youngest premier class winner, taking over from American legend ‘Fast’ Freddie Spencer in the 1980s.
A few months later Márquez became the first rookie MotoGP world champion since another American legend, ‘King’ Kenny Roberts, who won the title in 1978. This was fitting as both riders won by introducing a new technique that was vital to road racing motorcycle. Roberts slid the rear tire as before. Márquez slid the front tire as before.
Márquez won six MotoGP championships between 2013 and 2019, missing out in 2015 when Honda made an engine specification mistake. Then he suffered a severe broken arm in the first race of 2020, from which he is still recovering. How many titles will he win now without a broken arm?
Ducati’s arrival in MotoGP in 2003 was very significant for the championship. Loris Capirossi and Troy Bayliss were riders and the Desmosedici was immediately competitive, scoring its first podium at Suzuka and its first win ten weeks later in Barcelona, where Capirossi won a thrilling battle with Honda rivals Valentino Rossi and Sete Gibernau.
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This year, Ducati’s 20th in the great MotoGP championship and 50 years since it took its first premier class podium with its original v-twin, not the desmo 500, the company won its first MotoGP triple crown: rider, constructor and team title.
During the 2003 MotoGP race at Phillip Island, Valentino Rossi was given a ten-second penalty for passing under a yellow flag. When his team relayed the penalty to him via his pitboard, it took him a moment to understand what was happening. When the penny finally dropped he decided he would beat the penalty, winning the race by more than ten seconds. Instead of riding within himself on Honda’s mighty RC211V, he broke away from the pack to cross the finish line 15 seconds ahead of runner-up Loris Capirossi to take the win by five seconds. Afterwards he revealed that this was the first time he rode at 100% throughout the GP!
Not many were that excited when Casey Stoner graduated to MotoGP in 2006. The young Australian had yet to win a world title, so most onlookers weren’t sure how good he really was. However, anyone who understands MotoGP has no doubts after his second MotoGP weekend, the Qatar GP. Stoner missed a connecting flight, spent Thursday night sleeping in a Dubai airport lounge, landing in Doha on Friday morning. He made it to the track in time for FP1, which ended in P1. The next day he took first place, ahead of defending champion Valentino Rossi, Loris Capirossi, Nicky Hayden and others.
Andrea Dovizioso was Marc Márquez’s main rival from 2017 to 2019, enjoying some memorable battles with the Spanish class ruler. Márquez was more talented but Dovizioso found a way to beat him, which first required him battling with the Honda rider until the final corner. There, Dovizioso, a notorious late braker, would set up his rival, braking super-super-late, knowing Márquez would try and brake him too and inevitably slide, allowing Dovizioso to cut the inside and win the race to the finish line. The Italian beat Márquez in four races with this trick.
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Many fans were confused in 2019 when the Petronas Yamaha team hired a young rookie who had only won one GP race in his life. Fabio Quartararo has had up and down times in Moto3 and Moto2 – mostly down, in fact – but few in the paddock can see the promise. The Frenchman returned the favor by scoring MotoGP pole position on the night of his fourth race, at Jerez, taking his first win the following year and securing the world title in 2021, with the factory Yamaha team.
What exactly? Yes, really. Until the 2015 MotoGP world championship took a turn for the worse in its closing stages, for all sorts of strange reasons, it was one of the greatest of all time, with three super-talented riders at the absolute height of their powers, give and take no quarter.
Jorge Lorenzo bounced back from a terrible start to the year – not a single podium from the first three races – to take the title with seven wins, to Marc Márquez’s five and Valentino Rossi’s four. More interestingly, Lorenzo was never conceded by anyone in any of those seven wins.
Sometimes the underdog can win at the highest level, on one of the greatest racetracks in the world. The big, burly Danilo Petrucci is not the ideal size for MotoGP – usually weighing in at around 80 kilos – while most of his rivals are in their 60s. That’s a lot of extra weight to carry around, which affects every aspect of the machine’s performance. At Mugello 2019, the former Superstock rider battled with teammates Andrea Dovizioso and Marc Márquez, seizing the lead on the final lap with a stunning pass between his rivals. Petrucci’s first of two MotoGP wins is one of the most popular of all time.
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