The Race MotoGP Podcast

Ai Ogura’s been on the cusp of a MotoGP win for months now, and he achieved it in style at Assen - putting himself into genuine championship contention in the process. That was in large part because the works Aprilia racers failed to capitalise on the RS-GP’s dominant pace in the Netherlands.

Simon Patterson joins Matt Beer on The Race MotoGP Podcast to discuss why Trackhouse overshadowed the factory bikes, the latest disaster for Marco Bezzecchi and a muted round for Marc Marquez. Plus the bizarre violence of the Assen crashes and a very, very strange weekend for the KTMs.

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Marc Marquez’s (sooner-than-expected) return to MotoGP’s title fight was confirmed with his second successive victory at the Czech Grand Prix and another wild weekend for Aprilia’s title chasers. From Brno, Valentin Khorounzhiy and Simon Patterson unpack a weekend filled with drama on and off the track.

They explain what’s let Marquez back into the title fight, Ai Ogura’s best weekend yet, Jorge Martin’s lack of pace, and discuss Marco Bezzecchi’s race ban for striking a marshal.

As always, they take plenty of questions from The Race Members’ Club throughout, including whether Bezzecchi’s punishment was harsh enough.

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Raul Fernandez is in his best ever MotoGP form - yet seems pretty sceptical about whether he’ll keep his Trackhouse Aprilia seat for 2027.

KTM might be heading for a complete fresh of its whole four-rider line-up, and while two of them have 2027 destinations set, are the other two set to fall off the grid? And is there any hope for the three race-winning riders who just don’t seem to have any seat options for 2027?

Val Khorounzhiy and Matt Beer dig into all the moving pieces in The Race MotoGP Podcast.

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Jordan Moreland, Megan White and Simon Patterson recap the 2026 Isle of Man TT races, which saw bad weather impact race week, but two riders take all the spoils in the racing that did happen.

Michael Dunlop added three more wins to his ever growing tally at the TT, which now stands at 36, while Dean Harrison won both big bike races - including the Senior TT, which was red-flagged after just one lap due to an incident.

We speak with Harrison about his 2026 TT and also discuss the amazing tribute lap for Joey Dunlop that was ridden by his nephew Michael.

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The Balaton MotoGP weekend could barely have gone worse for Aprilia: its title challenging factory pair wiped out by another Jorge Martin first-corner blunder, while Marc Marquez took a perfect score including his first grand prix win since 2025.

How did Aprilia react to the disaster, and was it as straightforward a Martin error as it seemed in the moment? And is a Marquez title bid now fully on?

Val Khorounzhiy, Simon Patterson and Matt Beer debate all that in The Race MotoGP Podcast, plus Iker Lecuona’s stand-in heroics and the surprisingly divisive topic of whether Jack Miller had a good race or not.

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