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Italian MotoGP: Francesco Bagnaia wins sprint-race double

[ad_1] Defending champion Francesco Bagnaia completed a sprint-race double at the Italian MotoGP on a "difficult weekend" for championship leader Jorge Martin. Spaniard Martin saw his lead cut from 39 points to 18 after crashing out of Saturday's sprint and finishing third in Sunday's race at Mugello in Tuscany.Bagnaia's Ducati team-mate Enea Bastianini produced a stunning late move to pip Martin to second, while Gresini Racing's Marc Marquez was fourth.
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2024 Desafio Ruta 40: Oriol Vidal sidelined with back injury

[ad_1] World Rally-Raid Championship Challenger points leader Rokas Baciuška will not have Oriol Vidal by his side for the Desafío Ruta 40 as Vidal recovers from a back injury he sustained at the season-opening Dakar Rally in January. Sébastien Delaunay will fill in as his co-driver. Despite the ailment, Vidal continued to call the shots for Baciuška through the next two W2RC rounds Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge and BP Ultimate
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Mugello result special during “difficult time” as Ducati MotoGP exit beckons

[ad_1] Bastianini put in an impressive performance in front of his home crowd at Mugello on Sunday, making two key overtakes in a race that featured little action to complete a 1-2 result for Ducati. The 26-year-old first cleared the Gresini bike of Marc Marquez with two laps to go going into Scarperia, before catching championship leader Jorge Martin by a surprise with an impressive pass into the final corner
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Isle of Man TT: Hickman wins dramatic Superbike race as Dunlop denied

[ad_1] Peter Hickman emerged the victor from a dramatic Isle of Man TT Superbike race in which Michael Dunlop was denied what appeared to be a certain record-breaking win.Dunlop, who equalled his uncle Joey's all-time wins tally of 26 with his success in Saturday's Supersport race, had established a 25-second lead by the end of lap four but an issue with his visor after his pit-stop meant he lost a
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Rainbow Truck Team eschews 2025 Dakar Rally for Africa Eco Race

[ad_1] Rainbow Truck Team will celebrate its ten-year anniversary by forgoing the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia in favour of the ‘real’ Dakar rally: the Africa Eco Race. At the 2024 Dakar in January, Gerrit Zuurmond finished fifteenth in the Truck category. Driving a MAN TGA with Tjeerd van Ballegooy and Klaas Kwakkel as co-driver and mechanic, he and the team raced fairly conservatively early on to stay out of
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Shane van Gisbergen beats Allgaier to first win

[ad_1] Van Gisbergen, a three-time Supercars champion, passed leader Justin Allgaier with three of 75 laps remaining and held on to win Saturday’s Xfinity Series race at Portland International Raceway. Allgaier had dominated much of the race on the 1.97-mile, 12-turn road course, winning both stages and led a race-high 46 laps. He led the way to start the final stage while a slow pit stop left van Gisbergen fighting
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Monaco Grand Prix: ‘Charles Leclerc achieves ultimate dream’

[ad_1] This was the second Ferrari win in seven races this year, after Sainz’s victory in Australia in March. After a difficult weekend for Red Bull, whose car simply would not work over the bumps and kerbs of Monaco, Leclerc has reduced Max Verstappen’s advantage in the championship from 48 to 31 points.Red Bull suffered from the same problem they had in Singapore last year, when Verstappen also struggled in
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Isle of Man TT: ‘An honour to share record with Joey’, says Michael Dunlop

[ad_1] Dunlop has been suffering from the effects of a wrist injury sustained in a crash at the Cookstown 100 Irish national road races in late April, but shrugged off the problem to romp home to a record 12th Supersport race victory and a fifth in succession in the class, riding the R6 Yamaha run by his own MD Racing team."I'm carrying an injury and I thought that definitely at