The Portuguese GP kicked off the 2023 MotoGP season in dramatic style, with plenty of controversy and incidents. Here's 10 things we learned from the season-opening event.
Miller was spot on. Though Bagnaia's march to both race wins in Portugal wasn't easy, with his sprint victory coming after a last-lap mistake from Pramac's Jorge Martin and Aprilia's Maverick Vinales hounding him all the way in the grand prix, he is clearly operating at a new level.
Then it all went wrong on Sunday. On lap one Marquez was aggressive, running wide at Turn 3 as he attempted a double pass on Oliveira and Pramac's Jorge Martin. Then on lap three he locked up at the same corner, hit Martin and broke his toe, and wiped out Oliveira. Whatever you think of Marquez and the penalty he should have received, it must also be considered that the state of the 2023 Honda put him in that position.
The 2023 RS-GP, by all accounts, is a little bit better in every area and at this stage genuinely looks like the marque best-matched to challenge Ducati for the title this season.An average start to the year for Quartararo underlines the steps Yamaha needs to makeFabio Quartararo began 2023 with no points in the sprint and a lowly eighth-place finish in the grand prix as he once again sounded alarm bells at Yamaha.
"We have a totally different bike to the others, and when they pick up the bike they have more grip than us. We have no solution right now. You can come back, you are close, but you cannot prepare an overtake. They go, and then you come back. You cannot stay with them to try to overtake, which for me is the main problem."
"So, our plan coming into this grand prix was just normal race weekend stuff; let's play with settings, get the bike in a decent position and work on myself riding the bike. I think we've been able to do that. We won't know till we get there, but I really do think that the strategy we've got now and the electronics we've got in place and the way we've got the chassis working, we can make it work in the coming places.
Even so, it was nice to see riders jumping off the wagon ferrying them around the Algarve track on Sunday mornings to fire t-shirts into the crowd. The hero walk in the paddock was packed out with fans waiting for pictures and autographs, and the riders all duly obliged.
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