2026 world championship
The paddock
Race reports, technical analysis and paddock news from every round of the 2026 season.
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Raul Fernandez, from podium regular to race winner
Five podiums, two sprint wins and, at Silverstone, the top step of a Grand Prix for the first time.
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Cheste: where the 2026 title is decided
Round 22, 22 November, Circuit Ricardo Tormo. Four kilometres, fourteen corners and a grandstand that sees all of them.
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Silverstone: Raul Fernandez wins as seven fall out
Two hundredths off pole on Saturday, first across the line on Sunday. Raul Fernandez took the last race before the break.
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Inside a flag-to-flag bike swap
When the rain arrives mid-race, the bike changes and the clock does not stop. Here is what the twenty seconds in the pit box actually contain.
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Sachsenring: Marquez completes another perfect weekend
Pole by six hundredths, the sprint, the race and the fastest lap: the Sachsenring did what the Sachsenring usually does.
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Ai Ogura: 195 points and a first Grand Prix win
Fourth in the championship, a pole at Brno, a win at Assen. The number 79 has stopped being a promising second season.
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Assen: Ogura’s first win, and a Trackhouse one-two
A first Grand Prix win for Ai Ogura, and both Trackhouse bikes on the rostrum at the oldest venue on the calendar.
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Assen and the art of the fast chicane
Eighteen corners in 4.542 km, twelve of them right-handers, and a final sequence that has decided more races than the rest of the lap put together.
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Brno by 0.421s: Marquez holds off Ogura
Ai Ogura started from pole and finished four tenths short. Marc Marquez made it back-to-back wins.
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