About this episode

Ai Ogura's victory at Assen puts him in championship contention while Marco Bezzecchi faces more challenges.

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. Join The Race Members' Club: Sign up to our motorbike-only Riders tier on Patreon for our 2015 revisited series, ad-free listening and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Matt Beer

Guest: Simon Patterson

Topics covered

• MotoGP
• championship contention
• crashes
• Aprilia performance
• Bezzecchi struggles
• Assen race

Keywords

• MotoGP
• Ai Ogura
• Assen
• Marco Bezzecchi
• Aprilia
• Trackhouse
• crashes
• championship
• KTMs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trackhouse, Aprilia, KTMs

Places: Assen, Netherlands

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