Aussie ‘getting rocks in my neck’, Aprilia star’s apology, rider market finally set for launch – MotoGP Pit Talk
MotoGP’s ongoing stalemate between the sport’s teams and series promoter looks set for an imminent resolution, with reports suggesting an agreement to run the world championship for the next five years could be announced as soon as the upcoming Czech Grand Prix at Brno from June 19-21.he took out at the first corner of last Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix , while rising Australian Moto2 star Senna Agius revealed he was getting showered with stones from the Balaton Park track breaking up in the latter stages of his ride to third place last Sunday.
, your news wrap of the stories behind the headlines after the Hungarian Grand Prix, as we look ahead to the sport’s return to Brno for round nine of the 22-round season.
CONTRACT IMPASSE TO END, RIDER MARKET SET TO UNLOCK The protracted standoff between MotoGP’s promoters MSEG and the sport’s teams, under the umbrella of the Motorcycle Sports Manufacturers Association , looks set to finally come to an end next weekend, withThe impasse, which came about as the teams sought a larger share of the financial windfall that is expected to come into the sport under new owners Liberty Media, was centred around the teams wanting a percentage-based slice of revenue over the five-year period, similar to the deal Formula 1 teams have with the same owners.
Reporting over the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend indicated the teams have settled for an 8 million Euro annual fixed fee for the duration of the agreement, withA sticking point in the negotiations related to the wishes of the sport’s new owners to have teams make a greater contribution to the growth of the series with increased communications and marketing activities.report said: “The intention is for both parties to officially ratify the new deal at the next round of the calendar in Brno, in two weeks’ time. , with 850cc machinery replacing the 1000cc bikes that have been used since 2012, a ban on ride-height devices and other aerodynamic aids, and Pirelli replacing Michelin as MotoGP’s sole tyre supplier.
Any announcement of an agreement will open the floodgates for a raft of rider market announcements, with only a handful of riders – Johann Zarco and Diogo Moreira , Fermin Aldeguer , Toprak Razgatlioglu and championship leader Marco Bezzecchi – having publicly confirmed their seats for next season. A host of rider contracts agreed earlier this year but not yet announced as the sport’s teams played hardball in their negotiations with MSEG – Pedro Acosta to Ducati, Jorge Martin to Yamaha, Fabio Quartararo to Honda and Francesco Bagnaia to Aprilia – are likely to follow immediately after the MSEG/MSMA news is formally announced.
Two-time MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia’s move from Ducati to Aprilia will likely become official soon after the MSEG/MSMA impasse ends. Aprilia’s Jorge Martin has taken to social media to apologise for his role in instigating MotoGP’s second horrendous first-corner crash in the past three Grands Prix, the Spaniard posting a photo of his hands clasped in prayer on Instagram after the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday.
PODCAST: Renita, Michael and Matt catch up with Haas F1 reserve driver Jack Doohan, chat to Broc Feeney about his Supercars season, and wrap up last weekend’s racing with F1 at Monaco and MotoGP in Hungary. From eighth on the grid, Martin stormed down the inside on the run to the tight first turn at Balaton Park but lost control of his Aprilia, cannoning into teammate Marco Bezzecchi.
Bezzecchi’s bike then took out Ducati’s Fermin Aldeguer, Aprilia’s Raul Fernandez and Ducati’s Fabio Di Giannantonio; of the five riders skittled, only Di Giannantonio was able to continue the race, salvaging four world championship points by finishing 12th.two races previously in Barcelona, where Honda rider Johann Zarco fell and had his left leg trapped between the rear of the seat and rear wheel of Francesco Bagania’s Ducati as it barrel-rolled through the gravel. Zarco is still awaiting surgery, and looks set for a long stint on the sidelines.
– which make bikes harder to control into the first corner before the devices are disengaged under braking – the tight nature of the Balaton Park’s track’s first corner was also a factor in the crash, where all five riders involved miraculously escaped injury.
“I want to apologize to all my teammates who were involved in today’s accident during the first lap of the race,” Martin wrote. “I lost control of the bike, and unfortunately, this caused several falls that I couldn’t avoid. The most important thing is that, thank God, we’re all OK. In situations like this, that’s all that really matters.
“I am very sorry for the consequences this incident could have had for them, their teams, and their races. You never want to be involved in a situation like this.
“Thank you for all the messages of support, for the understanding, and for the respect you’ve shown me. ” Martin was slapped with a double long-lap penalty for the next Grand Prix in Brno, which comes after he took out Bezzecchi at the opening corner of the sprint race at the Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi last September, breaking his own right collarbone and missing the following four rounds.
Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola – speaking to the media after the race in Hungary after Aprilia cancelled the media debriefs for Martin, Bezzecchi and Fernandez – called Martin’s actions “a mistake a world champion shouldn’t make. ” “Martin’s mistake should never happen, especially when safety is at stake and you’re so aggressively approaching the first turn,” Rivola told“It was a strange mistake, not one of enthusiasm. He made a bad braking mistake, but he didn’t brake too late.
He applied more power with the bike leaning slightly, in a part of the track where there’s less grip. ” With the first corner slippery at Balaton Park after late resurfacing of the track following the World Superbikes round at the circuit in early May, Rivola said Martin should have been more cautious.
“When you are on Sunday, you know very well the track layout, the grip condition. I think that at the first corner, everybody should take it a bit more easy,” he said.
“The fact that we are also unlucky that when we crash, we have another Aprilia or even two in the middle, it looks also stupid. AGIUS IN THE FIRING LINE ON THE WAY TO LATEST PODIUM Rising Australian star Senna Agius said he was “getting rocks into my neck” from the Balaton Park circuit breaking up during the 22-lap Moto2 battle in Hungary last Sunday, a race where the 21-year-old took his third podium finish this season with third place behind teammate and championship leader Manuel Gonzalez.
Agius, who was edged off the podium by 0.017 seconds by MotoGP-bound Spaniard Dani Holgado one week earlier at the Italian Grand Prix, qualified third in Hungary and spent 21 of the 22 laps in the same place, finishing 3.925secs behind Gonzalez while holding off fast-finishing Colombian David Alonso for the final place on the podium. It was Agius’ first Moto2 race in Hungary, after he’d missed last year’s event with injury after a heavy crash at the preceding Grand Prix in Austria.
Australia's Senna Agius took his third podium in eight 2026 rounds to date when he finished third in Hungary “I was a little bit worried that this track and that everyone in Moto2 is so fast that if I lost a little bit early in the weekend, I was worried I was going to be behind. But I was calm … a podium here, of course I want more but it’s important points and a redemption from last week when I was so close.
” Agius said the layout of the 4.1km Balaton Park track – set to be replaced by Formula 1 circuit the Hungaroring as the venue for future Hungarian Grands Prix – was a “slap in the face” after the high-speed, flowing Mugello circuit a week earlier.
“The rest of the circuit is OK besides the first corner. I feel like it would be a pretty cool track if the first corner was a little more friendly.
“I was getting rocks into my neck in sector three today, so there’s something going on with the asphalt heating up. The first lap here on Friday is always a big slap in the face … the types of chicanes, you turn and then you turn again, there’s no exit and you can’t prepare. Normally, in a chicane, you’re slow in and fast out, but it doesn’t work like that here.
”, for a promotion to the premier class next year – sits fourth in the Moto2 standings with 94 points from the opening eight rounds.
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