After five weeks of ceasefire, the fighting resumes on the Grand Prix front and the protagonists will go to the front with guns blazing. They are indeed all impatient to launch into the fray which will be divided into ten rounds until November. In all championships, from MotoGP to Moto3 to Moto2, the stakes are high and some will stake their future. You definitely shouldn't miss this return to school. Exactly, here are the times.
It is with a Grand Prix of Styria that the Grand Prix season is relaunched on a Spielberg track which will then host the Austrian Grand Prix. This site is also called the Red Bull Ring and there is even a sculpture that reminds us of it. In both cases, it is the playground of Ducati who have won everything since 2016, with the exception, precisely, of the race bearing the name of the Austrian region and which was won last year by Miguel Oliveira, then Tech3 KTM rider.
KTM is playing at home and will want to behave. The Mattighofen firm has the capacity given what it has demonstrated since Mugello. But it's at Ducati that we will have pressure. In fact, the men of Gigi Dall'Igna are offered two opportunities in two successive weekends to go back on a Fabio Quartararo equipped with a Yamaha which should suffer the event more than rejoice in it. But the French championship leader has already warned that he certainly does not arrive already beaten in Austria.
If things go wrong for the Borgo Panigale manufacturer, it would be a blow that could determine the rest of the season. Furthermore, we also fear a fratricidal struggle within the GP21 clan which could harm the collective interest. Let us remember that it is Johann zarco who is second in the championship, and therefore leader at Ducati. But the Frenchman is a satellite pilot…
The stakes will be on all levels in Styria
At Suzuki, we will finally have a GSX-RR as advanced as the competition which Joan mir been waiting for a long time. alex rins will have to rebuild their health after a disastrous first part of the campaign. The kind of assessment which is also current at Honda whose salvation can only come, once again, from Marc Marquez who has never won at the Red Bull Ring and who showed that he had worked well on his physical condition during the summer break.
Finally, we will stay tuned to Valentino Rossi from which we are still awaiting communication on its future. The Doctor will find old acquaintances in Styria Pedrosa et Crutchlow who return to competition. The first on his behalf, the second to replace Morbidely, recovering from a knee injury. A situation which will lead the Englishman to work until Silverstone.
We do not forget the Moto2 and Moto3. For the first category, the competition will be keen to stop the domination displayed by the Ajo KTM riders who are also in a duel for the title. The rookie Raul fernandez will not let his teammate Remy gardner quiet, and even less so since he is eyeing a position in MotoGP. In Moto3, it will be about stopping Peter Acosta. A mission we would like to take on Sergio Garcia, who is 48 points behind the aforementioned, leader overall although a rookie of just 17 years old.
MotoGP Styrian Grand Prix: timetables
