Jake Dixon won the Moto2 World Championship race Sunday at MotorLand Aragon, in Spain. Riding his CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team Kalex on Pirelli control tires, the British racer won the 19-lap race by 1.779 seconds.
Tony Arbolino was the runner-up on his Elf Marc VDS Racing Kalex.
Denis Oncu placed third on his Red Bull KTM Ajo Kalex.
American Joe Roberts ran as high as fifth during the race. After serving a long-lap penalty for irresponsible riding, Roberts was fighting for seventh with his OnlyFans American Racing teammate Marcos Ramirez, but Roberts crashed out of the race on the final lap. Fortunately for Roberts, World Championship leader Sergio Garcia also DNF the race, and Roberts ended the day fourth in the standings and just 32 points behind the leader.
Jose Antonio Rueda won the Moto3 World Championship race Sunday at MotorLand Aragon, in Alcaniz, Spain. Riding his Red Bull KTM Ajo machine on spec Pirelli tires, the young Spaniard won the 17-lap race by 1.985 seconds.
Collin Veijer was the runner-up on his Liqui Moly Intact GP Husqvarna.
Luca Lunetta placed third on his SIC58 Squadra Corse Honda.
Dumas fends off early attack to win Superbike race one at Shannonville
Shannonville, ON – A near-perfect weekend continued for Alex Dumas on Saturday, leading start to finish despite plenty of pressure along the way to take his second victory of the Bridgestone CSBK season in the final round at Shannonville Motorsport Park.
Dumas grabbed the holeshot from pole position despite an equally good launch from Sam Guerin, and the pair quickly stretched away from the field and ran nose-to-tail for well over half the race as Guerin desperately looked for a way through.
An obvious passing point never materialized, however, as Dumas completed one of the best defensive efforts of his career to escape with a dramatic win in the penultimate race of the GP Bikes Pro Superbike season.
The victory – his second since joining Economy Lube Ducati – is just the latest part of what has been a dominant weekend from Dumas so far, having led FP1, FP2, and taken the BS Battery Pole award to now go along with a 14th career Superbike win.
“We won our first one at CTMP and led start to finish in that one too, but it was a lot harder today,” Dumas admitted. “I made a few mistakes, didn’t really make it easy on myself. But it was an awesome battle and a lot of fun, so hopefully we can do it again tomorrow.”
The victory also gives Dumas his sixth podium since joining the Economy Lube program, tying Pascal Picotte for the most by a Ducati rider in feature class history as he continues to look like a 2025 title contender on the V4 Panigale.
Guerin’s early assault wouldn’t be enough to displace Dumas and wasn’t quite enough to hold onto second, either, as newly-crowned champion Ben Young began to find a rhythm in the second half of the race and put himself back into second with four laps remaining.
Young would actually drop the gap to Dumas significantly in the final moments, setting the fastest lap of the race on the last lap but ultimately running out of time. Still, the four-time Canada Cup winner was happy to salvage a strong result after a bittersweet Friday, where he clinched his third championship in a row despite mechanical issues on his primary M1000RR machine.
“I didn’t get the best start, so I just tried to settle in on this ‘B-bike’ after we had some troubles yesterday, but I couldn’t quite get it there,” Young said. “But the team worked really hard overnight while I was celebrating, so I owe a huge thanks to them. The Van Dolder’s Home Team BMW is such an amazing package to be a part of and a hell of a bike, so I know we’ll get there tomorrow.”
Guerin would have to settle for third, a disappointing result after it looked like he might challenge for his third victory of the campaign but still a strong indicator of just how far Guerin and the EFC Group BMW team have come since the season began, clinching the runner-up spot in the 2024 standings.
“I had a few moments out there, almost lost the front a couple times, so I tried to bring it home in second but once I backed off a little Ben was able to get by me,” Guerin said. “I was able to put a ton of pressure on Alex, and even though I really wanted the win I was happy to see the progress we’ve made since the last time here in round one.”
Completing the top four once again was Jordan Szoke, who continued his own bittersweet run of finishing top-four in every race this season. The 14-time champion is the only rider besides Young to do so and continues to look strong aboard his CKM Kawasaki, though by a comfortable margin to the podium finishers ahead of him.
Rounding out the top five after a late push was David MacKay, who found himself locked in a thrilling battle with Trevor Daley for much of race one. MacKay was able to make an excellent move into the penultimate corner and had the pace to chase after Szoke, though with only a handful of laps left as he settled for a strong fifth.
Daley’s run of “Daley Double’s” would come to an end after winning the Sport Bike race earlier in the afternoon, though he still managed an impressive sixth for OneSpeed Suzuki as he battles through a wrist injury and made some last-minute repairs to his GSX-R1000 following a Friday crash.
Making up for an early error was Tomas Casas in seventh, who had the pace to fight inside the top-five but ran off the back straight on lap one. The Yamaha Motors Canada rider admitted it was his mistake as he got sucked into the slipstream of the group ahead, but his comeback effort to finish seventh was enough to secure him the FAST Hard Charger Award for the third time in his career.
Casas’ late push came at the expense of Connor Campbell, who had an excellent charge in his own right as he climbed from 15th on the grid to finish eighth and at one point ran as high as sixth for B&T MacFarlane/Kubota Kawasaki.
The strong finish will move Campbell a solid 16 points ahead in the Brooklin Cycle Racing Pro Rookie of the Year fight entering the last day of the season, as he looks poised to become the first Kawasaki winner of the award since Nico Meunier in 2019.
Eli Daccache would salvage ninth after running off the back straight on a pair of occasions, flashing the pace to fight inside the top-six but suffering from his costly mistakes aboard the Milwaukee Yamaha.
Rounding out the top ten in his pro debut was Goran Radisic, who clinched the AIM Insurance Amateur Superbike crown last time out at CTMP and decided to end the year by advancing to the pro ranks early for PMR BMW.
The feature class will now prepare for their final race of the 2024 campaign when the series returns to Shannonville on Sunday, with the trio of Dumas, Young, and Guerin each looking to make a statement heading into the offseason.
Full results can be found on the series’ official website.
More, from a press release issued by Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup:
Carpe’s cool Rookies Aragon win over Perrone and Uriarte
Three wins in a row extend Álvaro Carpe’s Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup points lead to 33 as the Spanish 17-year-old continues his late-season charge. Argentine 16-year-old Valentin Perrone almost passed him on the line, missing out by just 0.026 seconds after a thrilling battle on their KTMs. Third was Spain’s Brian Uriarte, just another 0.052 behind.
Uriarte is still second in the points table and crucially Perrone moves up to third in the title chase after Màximo Quiles scored zero points because of two falls.
The race was run in two parts following a Red Flag due to a fallen rider on the track though he was later found to be uninjured. The initial race was stopped after 4 laps, Part 2 ran for 5 laps and determined the overall result.
Carpe will not stop winning
“I feel that I managed the race very well, I led almost all the time, running a fast pace. It was fast enough so the three of us broke away from the rest. I looked back and saw it was just three of us and Rico was some distance behind us.”
“I knew that I had a very good plan and line for the back straight and the final corner so I was happy to lead on the last lap.”
“I am very happy that I have had this run of three wins. That means that tomorrow is my first possible match point. I have to stay calm and give 100%. I am not going to play just for points, I want to win because that is what I enjoy.”
Perrone hoped for a mistake
“In the beginning of the first part, I started just trying to be calm, running a bit slow. So I wouldn’t use all the tyre and like this, I would have something left for the end. So the Red Flag was perfect for this it shortened the race and I did have some tyre left at the end.”
“In the last lap the grip was not so bad in the last corner Carpe was super fast. My only chance was to stay behind him and hope he made a mistake so I could pass him out of the slipstream but he did it perfectly, my bike was moving around through the last corner and he made no mistake.”
Uriarte tried everything
“Well, it was tough but I managed to get the podium. I was pushing at the beginning so I was feeling confident and the tyre was giving me a lot of confidence. I was having a nice balance between the bike and me. The Red Flag didn’t help me because I was running my pace and after the stop, the tyre was destroyed, after the sighting lap I could feel it was finished.”
“Lucky, I was able to go with Alvaro and Valentin and get away from the others. I was struggling so much through the fast corners and I struggled to stay with the first two. The other two had managed to save the tyres a bit and I couldn’t catch them, it was close but no way to finish in front.”
Quiles slips to 4th in title chase
“I’m a bit angry but, well this is racing,” stated the emotional 16-year-old Spaniard after the race. He fell due to an incident with Hakim Danish and the Malaysian 17-year-old was given a ‘double long lap penalty due to irresponsible riding’.
“A bit disappointed because now it is a bit difficult to do top three but it’s possible so I will try my best tomorrow and see what happens,” he added after falling again on his own at the end of the race after restarting following the first incident.
Stage Set for Spectacular Super Sunday Doubleheader at Springfield
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (August 31, 2024) – Due to excessive rain overnight, today’s Progressive American Flat Track round at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, Illinois, has been rescheduled for tomorrow, September 1, setting the stage for a Springfield Sunday spectacular doubleheader.
Tomorrow’s Springfield Mile I & II presented by Drag Specialties will see two full rounds completed in succession in a single day, each complete with their own qualifying, heats and Main Events and separated by the Fan Walk. Representing two of the final three rounds in an ultra-close 2024 Grand National Championship fight, Sunday is destined to be one of the most impactful days in recent Progressive AFT history.
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Featured In the August 2024 issue of Roadracing World:
When the RNF Racing organization imploded at the end of 2023, NASCAR racer Justin Marks jumped in, bought the remnants and started rebuilding the team, the first American organization on the MotoGP grid since Kenny Roberts last ran Team Roberts back in 2007.
Marks immediately needed someone to help dig the organization out of the hole it had fallen into. Fortunately, there was someone on the market with experience winning in MotoGP, and, maybe even more importantly, experience in building a winning organization— Davide Brivio…
“Interview: Trackhouse Racing Team Principal Davide Brivio,” by Michael Gougis
Justin Marks wasn’t willing to settle for making up the numbers with Trackhouse Racing. He’s a NASCAR winner as a driver and team owner, he’s raced, and he wants to win. So he brought on Davide Brivio to start building a team capable of running at the front. “We want to be a great team. We want to be a successful team. And that’s what we will try to do,” Brivio says in the latest issue of Roadracing World.
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Marc Marquez won the MotoGP World Championship Tissot Sprint Race Saturday at MotorLand Aragon, in Spain.
Riding his Gresini Racing Ducati Desmosedici on Michelin control tires, the six-time MotoGP World Champion won the 11-lap race by nearly three seconds. It was Marquez’s career-first MotoGP Sprint Race victory.
Jorge Martin was the runner-up on his Prima Pramac Racing Ducati.
Rookie sensation Pedro Acosta finished third on his Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 machine 6.6 seconds behind Marquez.
Two-time and defending World Champion Francesco Bagnaia was ninth, earning him just one point. This resulted in Martin moving past Bagnaia and into the World Championship point lead.
Marc Marquez serves up Saturday masterclass as Martin reclaims title lead
The #93 takes his first Tissot Sprint win ahead of Martin and Acosta as Bagnaia duels Quartararo for eighth on Saturday
The start of the Tissot Sprint race Saturday at MotorLand Aragon with Marc Marquez (93) leading Jorge Martin (89), Pedro Acosta (behind Martin), Alex Marquez (73), and the rest. Photo courtesy Dorna.
Saturday, 31 August 2024
Marc Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP™) is a Tissot Sprint winner! The #93 started from a pole position secured with the biggest gap in the dry since 2011, took the holeshot and never looked back on Saturday afternoon at the Gran Premio GoPro de Aragon. It’s the first Sprint win for the eight-time World Champion as he escaped Jorge Martin (Prima Pramac Racing) by nearly three seconds.
Marc Marquez (93). Photo courtesy Dorna.
For Martin, however, a second-place finish puts him back in the Championship lead by four points as reigning Champion Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team) had a tougher Sprint and came home ninth for a single point. Completing the podium behind Martin, rookie Pedro Acosta (Red Bull GASGAS Tech3) converted second on the grid to third in the Sprint.
As the lights went out there was an immediate front row fracas for Bagnaia, with the reigning Champion snapping sideways off the line, getting bogged down and then getting close to Alex Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP™). Ahead, there were no such dramas for Marc Marquez as he took the holeshot and then got the hammer down, shadowed by Martin up from Row 2 and Acosta in third.
Bagnaia was holding station in fourth initially, able to stay ahead of Alex Marquez, but the reigning Champion was making no inroads on the top three. Then he was wide at Turn 5 to drop back to sixth ahead of Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing), before another few scrappy moments saw the South African get past him – and then the fight for sixth lit up.
Binder, Bagnaia and Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™) had their own throwdown, and Miguel Oliveira (Trackhouse Racing) sliced past all of them to start making some space in fifth. Enea Bastianini (Ducati Lenovo Team) was next on the scene and it settled into Oliveira in fifth, Binder trying to hold off Bastianini and a flashback battle between Quartararo and Bagnaia.
Up ahead, Marc Marquez laid down the gauntlet ahead of the Grand Prix as his first Sprint win ups the hype even more. The Gresini Racing MotoGP™ rider has led every session of his weekend so far and if he wins on Sunday it will be his first victory since 2021, over 1000 days ago.
Martin pulled out a gap on Acosta by the flag, and the rookie also managed to keep some fresh air ahead of Alex Marquez in fourth. Oliveira kept fifth, with Binder staying in P6 by just over a tenth over Bastianini.
Behind, it went to the wire in the Bagnaia vs Quartararo battle, with the Frenchman sending it a couple of times before managing to complete the pickpocket and sit the #1 up. Bagnaia then came under attack on the last lap from Marco Bezzecchi (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team), but the #1 was able to answer on the cut back and cross the line for that final Sprint point in P9.
Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing) crashed out early on at Turn 1 and nearly took Fabio Di Giannantonio (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team) with him, but the returning Italian stayed upright. Further drama included a crash for Franco Morbidelli (Prima Pramac Racing) – rider ok – and one for Johann Zarco (CASTROL Honda LCR), rider also ok but that adding a blip to the Frenchman’s otherwise stunning weekend at Aragon so far.
Join us again on Sunday for the Grand Prix race as Marc Marquez looks for a date with destiny – and everyone else looks to stop him 1043 days later.
Jake Dixon (96). Photo courtesy Dorna.
Dixon takes first pole of the season as Garcia starts from P28
Jake Dixon (CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team) will start from pole for the Gran Premio GoPro de Aragon as the British rider improved on his final lap to slam in a 1:51.636 and earn a 0.134s gap to rookie Diogo Moreira (Italtrans Racing Team). It was a great session for the Brazilian, however, whose best intermediate class qualifying put him a mere 0.014s ahead of Aron Canet (Fantic Racing) rounding off a competitive front row ahead of Sunday.
– Championship leader Sergio Garcia (MT Helmets – MSI) and teammate Ai Ogura were were in Q1, with Ogura moving through to ultimately qualify P16 but Garcia suffering a crash at Turn 7 putting him P29. Penalties for others mean he’ll start P28
– Deniz Öncü (Red Bull KTM Ajo) completed a fantastic quali in fourth place, his best yet in Moto2™. The rookie will start in front of Tony Arbolino (Elf Marc VDS Racing Team), who secured P5 after going through Q1. Albert Arenas (QJMOTOR Gresini Moto2™) was sixth but drops three positions with a grid penalty, promoting Sync SpeedUp’s Alonso Lopez to Row 2
– Joe Roberts (OnlyFans American Racing Team) and Austria winner Celestino Vietti (Red Bull KTM Ajo) are next up ahead of Arenas. Fermin Aldeguer (Sync SpeedUp) starts 11th
Tune in for the Moto2™ race on Sunday at 12:15 (UTC +2)!
David Alonso (80). Photo courtesy Dorna.
Alonso hammers home advantage in qualifying
It was an intense Saturday for the Moto3™ field at the Gran Premio GoPro de Aragon, with David Alonso (CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team) continuing to impress, topping Practice 2 before storming to a phenomenal pole position. The Colombian set a 1:58.059 to secure an incredible 0.433 advantage over Jose Antonio Rueda (Red Bull KTM Ajo). P3 went the way of BOE Motorsports’ David Muñoz – unable to break into the 1:58 bracket as only Rueda got within a second of the polesitter.
– Angel Piqueras (Leopard Racing) lost time in the final sector but secures P4, lining up ahead of Joel Kelso (BOE Motorsports) and SIC58 Squadra Corse’s Luca Lunetta.
– Daniel Holgado (Red Bull GASGAS Tech3) heads Row 3 ahead of Matteo Bertelle (Kopron Rivacold Snipers Team) and Collin Veijer (Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP), who has fellow title frontrunner Ivan Ortola (MT Helmets-MSI) close behind as they look to limit the damage to Alonso
Tune in for Moto3™ at 11:00 (UTC+2) as Alonso looks to cash in his pace for another incredible 25 points.
Jake Dixon was fastest during Moto2 World Championship qualifying Saturday at MotorLand Aragon, in Spain. Riding his CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team Kalex on spec Pirelli tires, the British racer lapped the 3.1-mile circuit in 1:51.636 to top the field of 32 riders.
Brazil’s Diogo Moreira was the best of the rest with a 1:51.770 on his Italtrans Racing Team Kalex.
Spaniard Aron Canet took the third and final spot on the front row with a time of 1:51.784 on his Fantic Racing Kalex.
American Joe Roberts qualified eighth with a lap of 1:52.044 on his OnlyFans American Racing Team Kalex.
David Alonso was fastest in Moto3 World Championship qualifying Saturday at MotorLand Aragon, in Spain. Riding his Gaviota Aspar Team CFMOTO on Pirelli control tires, the Colombian navigated the repaved 3.1-mile road course in 1:58.059 and topped the field of 27 riders.
Red Bull KTM Ajo’s Jose Antonio Rueda was second-best with a time of 1:58.492.
David Munoz, piloting his BOE Motorsports KTM, claimed the third and final spot on the front with a lap time of 1:59.064.
Marquez takes electrifying pole to pull clear of Acosta and Bagnaia as Martin crashes in Q2
What’s eight tenths between rivals? The Gresini rider pulls out a stunning margin at MotorLand to make it the biggest gap in a dry qualifying session since 2011
Saturday, 31 August 2024
Marc Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP™) stormed to pole position on Saturday morning at the Gran Premio GoPro de Aragon, setting a sensational 1:46.766 to pull a stunning 0.840s clear of the pack. It’s the largest pole margin in dry conditions since the 2011 Valencia Grand Prix, where it was 1.014s in favour of Casey Stoner at the front. Gauntlet thrown.
Pedro Acosta (Red Bull GASGAS Tech3) will start second after battling through from Q1 and pinching P2 on his final lap in Q2, with the rookie placing just ahead of Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team). The reigning Champion will start the Aragon GP from third on the grid, just ahead of his main title rival, Jorge Martin (Prima Pramac Racing). The #89 was relegated to fourth after a crash on his first run forced him into recovery mode on his second exit.
Q1
2022 MotorLand winner Enea Bastianini (Ducati Lenovo Team) was on for a provisional place in Q2 until right at the end, with Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) taking over on top ahead of Acosta to relegate the ‘Beast’. It then got one worse for Bastianini as Marco Bezzecchi (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team) improved on his final dash too, taking third in Q1. Binder and Acosta moved through, but Bez pips the Beast to P13.
Q2
As the fight for pole began, the early drama came from Martin and the early benchmark to beat from Marc Marquez. The #89 slid off at Turn 5 and found himself running back to the box to try and reset as the #93 at the top of the timesheets only continued to up the volume on the Jaws music.
The #93’s time would stand until the closing minutes, proving not only a benchmark but a ballpark no other rider could get near. It was then suddenly beaten, but by… Marc Marquez as he then managed to get down into the 1:46s.
The fight for the front row was not over yet, however, with Martin returning to the track and setting a strong time, just before Bagnaia and Acosta both improved on their final laps. The rookie and the reigning Champion relegated Martin to fourth, but it’s a solid starting position considering the tougher start to the Q2 session for the Championship contender.
THE GRID
Behind the eight-time World Champion, the rookie and the reigning Champion, it’s Martin heading the resistance at the head of Row 2, but he has company too: Alex Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP™) and Franco Morbidelli (Prima Pramac Racing) are fifth and sixth.
Binder didn’t quite capitalise on his place in Q2 as much as Acosta managed to, but the South African heads Row 3 in seventh in a solid position to launch an attack. The Austrian battalion turned the tables somewhat on Aprilia in the differing track conditions following overnight rain, with Miguel Oliveira (Trackhouse Racing) the lead RS-GP in P8. Teammate Raul Fernandez is ninth, meanwhile the Aprilia Racing duo of Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Viñales down in P11 and 12.
Johann Zarco (CASTROL Honda LCR) continued to shine on Saturday after Friday saw him become the first Honda to get an automatic place in Q2 in 2024. He’ll line up tenth amongst the Aprilia armada.
It’s one thing to qualify on pole, it’s another to win the race. Or the Tissot Sprint. Marquez’ qualifying form looks like he could be on the brink of glory to bring one chapter of his career full circle, but if the sport was a time trial we couldn’t promise the best is still to come, but we’re sure we can.
Tune in for the first ever Sprint at MotorLand Aragon and then come back for more on Sunday as the #93 takes aim at Grand Prix glory 1043 days after he last tasted it.
Jake Dixon won the Moto2 World Championship race Sunday at MotorLand Aragon, in Spain. Riding his CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team Kalex on Pirelli control tires, the British racer won the 19-lap race by 1.779 seconds.
Tony Arbolino was the runner-up on his Elf Marc VDS Racing Kalex.
Denis Oncu placed third on his Red Bull KTM Ajo Kalex.
American Joe Roberts ran as high as fifth during the race. After serving a long-lap penalty for irresponsible riding, Roberts was fighting for seventh with his OnlyFans American Racing teammate Marcos Ramirez, but Roberts crashed out of the race on the final lap. Fortunately for Roberts, World Championship leader Sergio Garcia also DNF the race, and Roberts ended the day fourth in the standings and just 32 points behind the leader.
Jose Antonio Rueda won the Moto3 World Championship race Sunday at MotorLand Aragon, in Alcaniz, Spain. Riding his Red Bull KTM Ajo machine on spec Pirelli tires, the young Spaniard won the 17-lap race by 1.985 seconds.
Collin Veijer was the runner-up on his Liqui Moly Intact GP Husqvarna.
Luca Lunetta placed third on his SIC58 Squadra Corse Honda.
Eventual winner Alex Dumas (23) leads the GP Bikes Pro Superbike field into turn one at Shannonville Motorsport Park during race one action on Saturday.
Photo by Rob O'Brien/CSBK.
Dumas fends off early attack to win Superbike race one at Shannonville
Shannonville, ON – A near-perfect weekend continued for Alex Dumas on Saturday, leading start to finish despite plenty of pressure along the way to take his second victory of the Bridgestone CSBK season in the final round at Shannonville Motorsport Park.
Dumas grabbed the holeshot from pole position despite an equally good launch from Sam Guerin, and the pair quickly stretched away from the field and ran nose-to-tail for well over half the race as Guerin desperately looked for a way through.
An obvious passing point never materialized, however, as Dumas completed one of the best defensive efforts of his career to escape with a dramatic win in the penultimate race of the GP Bikes Pro Superbike season.
The victory – his second since joining Economy Lube Ducati – is just the latest part of what has been a dominant weekend from Dumas so far, having led FP1, FP2, and taken the BS Battery Pole award to now go along with a 14th career Superbike win.
“We won our first one at CTMP and led start to finish in that one too, but it was a lot harder today,” Dumas admitted. “I made a few mistakes, didn’t really make it easy on myself. But it was an awesome battle and a lot of fun, so hopefully we can do it again tomorrow.”
The victory also gives Dumas his sixth podium since joining the Economy Lube program, tying Pascal Picotte for the most by a Ducati rider in feature class history as he continues to look like a 2025 title contender on the V4 Panigale.
Guerin’s early assault wouldn’t be enough to displace Dumas and wasn’t quite enough to hold onto second, either, as newly-crowned champion Ben Young began to find a rhythm in the second half of the race and put himself back into second with four laps remaining.
Young would actually drop the gap to Dumas significantly in the final moments, setting the fastest lap of the race on the last lap but ultimately running out of time. Still, the four-time Canada Cup winner was happy to salvage a strong result after a bittersweet Friday, where he clinched his third championship in a row despite mechanical issues on his primary M1000RR machine.
“I didn’t get the best start, so I just tried to settle in on this ‘B-bike’ after we had some troubles yesterday, but I couldn’t quite get it there,” Young said. “But the team worked really hard overnight while I was celebrating, so I owe a huge thanks to them. The Van Dolder’s Home Team BMW is such an amazing package to be a part of and a hell of a bike, so I know we’ll get there tomorrow.”
Guerin would have to settle for third, a disappointing result after it looked like he might challenge for his third victory of the campaign but still a strong indicator of just how far Guerin and the EFC Group BMW team have come since the season began, clinching the runner-up spot in the 2024 standings.
“I had a few moments out there, almost lost the front a couple times, so I tried to bring it home in second but once I backed off a little Ben was able to get by me,” Guerin said. “I was able to put a ton of pressure on Alex, and even though I really wanted the win I was happy to see the progress we’ve made since the last time here in round one.”
Completing the top four once again was Jordan Szoke, who continued his own bittersweet run of finishing top-four in every race this season. The 14-time champion is the only rider besides Young to do so and continues to look strong aboard his CKM Kawasaki, though by a comfortable margin to the podium finishers ahead of him.
Rounding out the top five after a late push was David MacKay, who found himself locked in a thrilling battle with Trevor Daley for much of race one. MacKay was able to make an excellent move into the penultimate corner and had the pace to chase after Szoke, though with only a handful of laps left as he settled for a strong fifth.
Daley’s run of “Daley Double’s” would come to an end after winning the Sport Bike race earlier in the afternoon, though he still managed an impressive sixth for OneSpeed Suzuki as he battles through a wrist injury and made some last-minute repairs to his GSX-R1000 following a Friday crash.
Making up for an early error was Tomas Casas in seventh, who had the pace to fight inside the top-five but ran off the back straight on lap one. The Yamaha Motors Canada rider admitted it was his mistake as he got sucked into the slipstream of the group ahead, but his comeback effort to finish seventh was enough to secure him the FAST Hard Charger Award for the third time in his career.
Casas’ late push came at the expense of Connor Campbell, who had an excellent charge in his own right as he climbed from 15th on the grid to finish eighth and at one point ran as high as sixth for B&T MacFarlane/Kubota Kawasaki.
The strong finish will move Campbell a solid 16 points ahead in the Brooklin Cycle Racing Pro Rookie of the Year fight entering the last day of the season, as he looks poised to become the first Kawasaki winner of the award since Nico Meunier in 2019.
Eli Daccache would salvage ninth after running off the back straight on a pair of occasions, flashing the pace to fight inside the top-six but suffering from his costly mistakes aboard the Milwaukee Yamaha.
Rounding out the top ten in his pro debut was Goran Radisic, who clinched the AIM Insurance Amateur Superbike crown last time out at CTMP and decided to end the year by advancing to the pro ranks early for PMR BMW.
The feature class will now prepare for their final race of the 2024 campaign when the series returns to Shannonville on Sunday, with the trio of Dumas, Young, and Guerin each looking to make a statement heading into the offseason.
Full results can be found on the series’ official website.
More, from a press release issued by Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup:
Carpe’s cool Rookies Aragon win over Perrone and Uriarte
Three wins in a row extend Álvaro Carpe’s Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup points lead to 33 as the Spanish 17-year-old continues his late-season charge. Argentine 16-year-old Valentin Perrone almost passed him on the line, missing out by just 0.026 seconds after a thrilling battle on their KTMs. Third was Spain’s Brian Uriarte, just another 0.052 behind.
Uriarte is still second in the points table and crucially Perrone moves up to third in the title chase after Màximo Quiles scored zero points because of two falls.
The race was run in two parts following a Red Flag due to a fallen rider on the track though he was later found to be uninjured. The initial race was stopped after 4 laps, Part 2 ran for 5 laps and determined the overall result.
Carpe will not stop winning
“I feel that I managed the race very well, I led almost all the time, running a fast pace. It was fast enough so the three of us broke away from the rest. I looked back and saw it was just three of us and Rico was some distance behind us.”
“I knew that I had a very good plan and line for the back straight and the final corner so I was happy to lead on the last lap.”
“I am very happy that I have had this run of three wins. That means that tomorrow is my first possible match point. I have to stay calm and give 100%. I am not going to play just for points, I want to win because that is what I enjoy.”
Perrone hoped for a mistake
“In the beginning of the first part, I started just trying to be calm, running a bit slow. So I wouldn’t use all the tyre and like this, I would have something left for the end. So the Red Flag was perfect for this it shortened the race and I did have some tyre left at the end.”
“In the last lap the grip was not so bad in the last corner Carpe was super fast. My only chance was to stay behind him and hope he made a mistake so I could pass him out of the slipstream but he did it perfectly, my bike was moving around through the last corner and he made no mistake.”
Uriarte tried everything
“Well, it was tough but I managed to get the podium. I was pushing at the beginning so I was feeling confident and the tyre was giving me a lot of confidence. I was having a nice balance between the bike and me. The Red Flag didn’t help me because I was running my pace and after the stop, the tyre was destroyed, after the sighting lap I could feel it was finished.”
“Lucky, I was able to go with Alvaro and Valentin and get away from the others. I was struggling so much through the fast corners and I struggled to stay with the first two. The other two had managed to save the tyres a bit and I couldn’t catch them, it was close but no way to finish in front.”
Quiles slips to 4th in title chase
“I’m a bit angry but, well this is racing,” stated the emotional 16-year-old Spaniard after the race. He fell due to an incident with Hakim Danish and the Malaysian 17-year-old was given a ‘double long lap penalty due to irresponsible riding’.
“A bit disappointed because now it is a bit difficult to do top three but it’s possible so I will try my best tomorrow and see what happens,” he added after falling again on his own at the end of the race after restarting following the first incident.
The AFT Springfield Mile I at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, in Springfield, Illinois, has been postponed until Sunday. Photo by Kristen Lassen, courtesy AFT.
Stage Set for Spectacular Super Sunday Doubleheader at Springfield
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (August 31, 2024) – Due to excessive rain overnight, today’s Progressive American Flat Track round at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, Illinois, has been rescheduled for tomorrow, September 1, setting the stage for a Springfield Sunday spectacular doubleheader.
Tomorrow’s Springfield Mile I & II presented by Drag Specialties will see two full rounds completed in succession in a single day, each complete with their own qualifying, heats and Main Events and separated by the Fan Walk. Representing two of the final three rounds in an ultra-close 2024 Grand National Championship fight, Sunday is destined to be one of the most impactful days in recent Progressive AFT history.
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Trackhouse Racing’s Miguel Oliveira leads the first lap of a MotoGP race at the Sachsenring, in Germany, riding a 2024 Aprilia RS-GP. Photo by Gigi Soldano/DPPI Media.
Featured In the August 2024 issue of Roadracing World:
When the RNF Racing organization imploded at the end of 2023, NASCAR racer Justin Marks jumped in, bought the remnants and started rebuilding the team, the first American organization on the MotoGP grid since Kenny Roberts last ran Team Roberts back in 2007.
Marks immediately needed someone to help dig the organization out of the hole it had fallen into. Fortunately, there was someone on the market with experience winning in MotoGP, and, maybe even more importantly, experience in building a winning organization— Davide Brivio…
“Interview: Trackhouse Racing Team Principal Davide Brivio,” by Michael Gougis
Justin Marks wasn’t willing to settle for making up the numbers with Trackhouse Racing. He’s a NASCAR winner as a driver and team owner, he’s raced, and he wants to win. So he brought on Davide Brivio to start building a team capable of running at the front. “We want to be a great team. We want to be a successful team. And that’s what we will try to do,” Brivio says in the latest issue of Roadracing World.
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Marc Marquez won the MotoGP World Championship Tissot Sprint Race Saturday at MotorLand Aragon, in Spain.
Riding his Gresini Racing Ducati Desmosedici on Michelin control tires, the six-time MotoGP World Champion won the 11-lap race by nearly three seconds. It was Marquez’s career-first MotoGP Sprint Race victory.
Jorge Martin was the runner-up on his Prima Pramac Racing Ducati.
Rookie sensation Pedro Acosta finished third on his Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 machine 6.6 seconds behind Marquez.
Two-time and defending World Champion Francesco Bagnaia was ninth, earning him just one point. This resulted in Martin moving past Bagnaia and into the World Championship point lead.
Marc Marquez serves up Saturday masterclass as Martin reclaims title lead
The #93 takes his first Tissot Sprint win ahead of Martin and Acosta as Bagnaia duels Quartararo for eighth on Saturday
The start of the Tissot Sprint race Saturday at MotorLand Aragon with Marc Marquez (93) leading Jorge Martin (89), Pedro Acosta (behind Martin), Alex Marquez (73), and the rest. Photo courtesy Dorna.
Saturday, 31 August 2024
Marc Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP™) is a Tissot Sprint winner! The #93 started from a pole position secured with the biggest gap in the dry since 2011, took the holeshot and never looked back on Saturday afternoon at the Gran Premio GoPro de Aragon. It’s the first Sprint win for the eight-time World Champion as he escaped Jorge Martin (Prima Pramac Racing) by nearly three seconds.
Marc Marquez (93). Photo courtesy Dorna.
For Martin, however, a second-place finish puts him back in the Championship lead by four points as reigning Champion Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team) had a tougher Sprint and came home ninth for a single point. Completing the podium behind Martin, rookie Pedro Acosta (Red Bull GASGAS Tech3) converted second on the grid to third in the Sprint.
As the lights went out there was an immediate front row fracas for Bagnaia, with the reigning Champion snapping sideways off the line, getting bogged down and then getting close to Alex Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP™). Ahead, there were no such dramas for Marc Marquez as he took the holeshot and then got the hammer down, shadowed by Martin up from Row 2 and Acosta in third.
Bagnaia was holding station in fourth initially, able to stay ahead of Alex Marquez, but the reigning Champion was making no inroads on the top three. Then he was wide at Turn 5 to drop back to sixth ahead of Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing), before another few scrappy moments saw the South African get past him – and then the fight for sixth lit up.
Binder, Bagnaia and Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™) had their own throwdown, and Miguel Oliveira (Trackhouse Racing) sliced past all of them to start making some space in fifth. Enea Bastianini (Ducati Lenovo Team) was next on the scene and it settled into Oliveira in fifth, Binder trying to hold off Bastianini and a flashback battle between Quartararo and Bagnaia.
Up ahead, Marc Marquez laid down the gauntlet ahead of the Grand Prix as his first Sprint win ups the hype even more. The Gresini Racing MotoGP™ rider has led every session of his weekend so far and if he wins on Sunday it will be his first victory since 2021, over 1000 days ago.
Martin pulled out a gap on Acosta by the flag, and the rookie also managed to keep some fresh air ahead of Alex Marquez in fourth. Oliveira kept fifth, with Binder staying in P6 by just over a tenth over Bastianini.
Behind, it went to the wire in the Bagnaia vs Quartararo battle, with the Frenchman sending it a couple of times before managing to complete the pickpocket and sit the #1 up. Bagnaia then came under attack on the last lap from Marco Bezzecchi (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team), but the #1 was able to answer on the cut back and cross the line for that final Sprint point in P9.
Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing) crashed out early on at Turn 1 and nearly took Fabio Di Giannantonio (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team) with him, but the returning Italian stayed upright. Further drama included a crash for Franco Morbidelli (Prima Pramac Racing) – rider ok – and one for Johann Zarco (CASTROL Honda LCR), rider also ok but that adding a blip to the Frenchman’s otherwise stunning weekend at Aragon so far.
Join us again on Sunday for the Grand Prix race as Marc Marquez looks for a date with destiny – and everyone else looks to stop him 1043 days later.
Jake Dixon (96). Photo courtesy Dorna.
Dixon takes first pole of the season as Garcia starts from P28
Jake Dixon (CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team) will start from pole for the Gran Premio GoPro de Aragon as the British rider improved on his final lap to slam in a 1:51.636 and earn a 0.134s gap to rookie Diogo Moreira (Italtrans Racing Team). It was a great session for the Brazilian, however, whose best intermediate class qualifying put him a mere 0.014s ahead of Aron Canet (Fantic Racing) rounding off a competitive front row ahead of Sunday.
– Championship leader Sergio Garcia (MT Helmets – MSI) and teammate Ai Ogura were were in Q1, with Ogura moving through to ultimately qualify P16 but Garcia suffering a crash at Turn 7 putting him P29. Penalties for others mean he’ll start P28
– Deniz Öncü (Red Bull KTM Ajo) completed a fantastic quali in fourth place, his best yet in Moto2™. The rookie will start in front of Tony Arbolino (Elf Marc VDS Racing Team), who secured P5 after going through Q1. Albert Arenas (QJMOTOR Gresini Moto2™) was sixth but drops three positions with a grid penalty, promoting Sync SpeedUp’s Alonso Lopez to Row 2
– Joe Roberts (OnlyFans American Racing Team) and Austria winner Celestino Vietti (Red Bull KTM Ajo) are next up ahead of Arenas. Fermin Aldeguer (Sync SpeedUp) starts 11th
Tune in for the Moto2™ race on Sunday at 12:15 (UTC +2)!
David Alonso (80). Photo courtesy Dorna.
Alonso hammers home advantage in qualifying
It was an intense Saturday for the Moto3™ field at the Gran Premio GoPro de Aragon, with David Alonso (CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team) continuing to impress, topping Practice 2 before storming to a phenomenal pole position. The Colombian set a 1:58.059 to secure an incredible 0.433 advantage over Jose Antonio Rueda (Red Bull KTM Ajo). P3 went the way of BOE Motorsports’ David Muñoz – unable to break into the 1:58 bracket as only Rueda got within a second of the polesitter.
– Angel Piqueras (Leopard Racing) lost time in the final sector but secures P4, lining up ahead of Joel Kelso (BOE Motorsports) and SIC58 Squadra Corse’s Luca Lunetta.
– Daniel Holgado (Red Bull GASGAS Tech3) heads Row 3 ahead of Matteo Bertelle (Kopron Rivacold Snipers Team) and Collin Veijer (Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP), who has fellow title frontrunner Ivan Ortola (MT Helmets-MSI) close behind as they look to limit the damage to Alonso
Tune in for Moto3™ at 11:00 (UTC+2) as Alonso looks to cash in his pace for another incredible 25 points.
Jake Dixon was fastest during Moto2 World Championship qualifying Saturday at MotorLand Aragon, in Spain. Riding his CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team Kalex on spec Pirelli tires, the British racer lapped the 3.1-mile circuit in 1:51.636 to top the field of 32 riders.
Brazil’s Diogo Moreira was the best of the rest with a 1:51.770 on his Italtrans Racing Team Kalex.
Spaniard Aron Canet took the third and final spot on the front row with a time of 1:51.784 on his Fantic Racing Kalex.
American Joe Roberts qualified eighth with a lap of 1:52.044 on his OnlyFans American Racing Team Kalex.
David Alonso was fastest in Moto3 World Championship qualifying Saturday at MotorLand Aragon, in Spain. Riding his Gaviota Aspar Team CFMOTO on Pirelli control tires, the Colombian navigated the repaved 3.1-mile road course in 1:58.059 and topped the field of 27 riders.
Red Bull KTM Ajo’s Jose Antonio Rueda was second-best with a time of 1:58.492.
David Munoz, piloting his BOE Motorsports KTM, claimed the third and final spot on the front with a lap time of 1:59.064.
Marquez takes electrifying pole to pull clear of Acosta and Bagnaia as Martin crashes in Q2
What’s eight tenths between rivals? The Gresini rider pulls out a stunning margin at MotorLand to make it the biggest gap in a dry qualifying session since 2011
Saturday, 31 August 2024
Marc Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP™) stormed to pole position on Saturday morning at the Gran Premio GoPro de Aragon, setting a sensational 1:46.766 to pull a stunning 0.840s clear of the pack. It’s the largest pole margin in dry conditions since the 2011 Valencia Grand Prix, where it was 1.014s in favour of Casey Stoner at the front. Gauntlet thrown.
Pedro Acosta (Red Bull GASGAS Tech3) will start second after battling through from Q1 and pinching P2 on his final lap in Q2, with the rookie placing just ahead of Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team). The reigning Champion will start the Aragon GP from third on the grid, just ahead of his main title rival, Jorge Martin (Prima Pramac Racing). The #89 was relegated to fourth after a crash on his first run forced him into recovery mode on his second exit.
Q1
2022 MotorLand winner Enea Bastianini (Ducati Lenovo Team) was on for a provisional place in Q2 until right at the end, with Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) taking over on top ahead of Acosta to relegate the ‘Beast’. It then got one worse for Bastianini as Marco Bezzecchi (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team) improved on his final dash too, taking third in Q1. Binder and Acosta moved through, but Bez pips the Beast to P13.
Q2
As the fight for pole began, the early drama came from Martin and the early benchmark to beat from Marc Marquez. The #89 slid off at Turn 5 and found himself running back to the box to try and reset as the #93 at the top of the timesheets only continued to up the volume on the Jaws music.
The #93’s time would stand until the closing minutes, proving not only a benchmark but a ballpark no other rider could get near. It was then suddenly beaten, but by… Marc Marquez as he then managed to get down into the 1:46s.
The fight for the front row was not over yet, however, with Martin returning to the track and setting a strong time, just before Bagnaia and Acosta both improved on their final laps. The rookie and the reigning Champion relegated Martin to fourth, but it’s a solid starting position considering the tougher start to the Q2 session for the Championship contender.
THE GRID
Behind the eight-time World Champion, the rookie and the reigning Champion, it’s Martin heading the resistance at the head of Row 2, but he has company too: Alex Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP™) and Franco Morbidelli (Prima Pramac Racing) are fifth and sixth.
Binder didn’t quite capitalise on his place in Q2 as much as Acosta managed to, but the South African heads Row 3 in seventh in a solid position to launch an attack. The Austrian battalion turned the tables somewhat on Aprilia in the differing track conditions following overnight rain, with Miguel Oliveira (Trackhouse Racing) the lead RS-GP in P8. Teammate Raul Fernandez is ninth, meanwhile the Aprilia Racing duo of Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Viñales down in P11 and 12.
Johann Zarco (CASTROL Honda LCR) continued to shine on Saturday after Friday saw him become the first Honda to get an automatic place in Q2 in 2024. He’ll line up tenth amongst the Aprilia armada.
It’s one thing to qualify on pole, it’s another to win the race. Or the Tissot Sprint. Marquez’ qualifying form looks like he could be on the brink of glory to bring one chapter of his career full circle, but if the sport was a time trial we couldn’t promise the best is still to come, but we’re sure we can.
Tune in for the first ever Sprint at MotorLand Aragon and then come back for more on Sunday as the #93 takes aim at Grand Prix glory 1043 days after he last tasted it.
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