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Mooney VR46 set to reveal their 2023 look on Monday (motogp.com)

Tune in as Luca Marini and 2022 Rookie of the Year, Marco Bezzecchi, launch Valentino Rossi's premier class outfit.

The pair will pull the covers off of their GP22s, the machine Pecco Bagnaia, of course, won last year's World Championship on, at 11:30 (CET) on Monday, March 6. Valentino Rossi's outfit is set to embark on their second premier class campaign after a successful first season in the top class. The Italian team will face the upcoming season with great ambition, with both Luca Marini, fastest rider at both the Valencia and Sepang Official Tests, and Marco Bezzecchi, the 2022 Rookie of the Year, setting their sights firmly at returning the famous VR46 brand to the top of a MotoGP™ podium.

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10 things you probably didn't know about Augusto Fernandez (motogp.com)

Augusto Fernandez comes into the 2023 MotoGP™ World Championship as the premier class' sole rookie, but that isn't going to stop the GASGAS Factory Team ...

His dream coaching ticket includes eight-time World Champion Marc Marquez as his personal coach, while he also predicts that Marquez will win the 2023 title. And he has a sweet tooth for anything with chocolate. And in the world of F1, Fernandez roots for Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz. As a MotoGP rider, Fernandez has some idols of his own. It’s little surprise then that the athlete he would trade places with for a day is Real Madrid legend Cristiano Ronaldo. His love for sports doesn't end there, as he's a huge football fan, supporting both Real Madrid and RCD Mallorca

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Coming up: GASGAS Factory Racing Tech3 2023 launch (motogp.com)

Pol Espargaro and Augusto Fernandez will be lifting the covers off their 2023 machines on Saturday 4th March.

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The blunt post-KTM joy of Aprilia's MotoGP reclamation project - The ... (The Race)

In his RNF Aprilia honeymoon phase, Raul Fernandez is frank - maybe too frank - about how much better it's going compared to his time at KTM.

I think this is the priority now.” “He’s back with his former crew chief, he has seen the Aprilia last year as well, he has followed them, he saw ‘ooh, that bike looks to be good’. But if he can replicate his 2021 form in MotoGP, he’ll get away with that and then some. They gave me a lot of calm in all the moments, all the difficult moments. All throughout his Sepang media appearances, Fernandez clearly wanted to accentuate how important all of that is to him. I have a very soft [smooth] style and with this bike I can go softer, and I can go fast”. But any specifics of the equipment were secondary in Fernandez’s Sepang rhetoric to mindset and enjoyment. He’d knocked his head during the final race weekend of the season, and though felt good enough to race, his head was “too big” in the test. And this is really important.” “And I am happy to enjoy again. Still, 14 points in 18 starts is a miserable return even in the context of an unsettled rider. But the bulk of 2022 wasn’t spent on an Aprilia.

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