Live updates for the MotoGP warm-up then Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP races from the 2021 Austrian MotoGP at the Red Bull Ring!
 

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T🐷he MotoGP World Championship holds its first back-to-back races of the season with teams and riders remaining at the Red Bull Ring for a second weekend.

Rookie Jorge Martin claimed his and Pramac Ducati's first ever MotoGP victory in last Sunday's Styri🅘an round, where he was joined o💙n the podium by Joan Mir and Fabio Quartararo.

All three had good reason to be happy with Mir ♒using Suzuki's new rear ride-height system for the first time and Quartararo extending his title lead over nearest rival Johann Zarco at a power hungry/ha🎉rd braking circuit that is traditionally tough for the Yamahas.

Quartararo will start the seꦛcond weekend with a 40-point lead over countryman Zarco (Pramac Ducati) with Mir now ahead of Francesco Bagnaia for third place (-51 points).

Bagnaia, who was leading the original💙 race until a fiery accident for Dani Pedrosa and Lorenzo Savadori, struggled for rear grip at the restart and is now 58 points ad𒐪rift of Quartararo.

With team-mate Jack Miller now 72 points behindಞ after falling while in pursuit of Quartararo last Sunday, is the title chase down to just four riders?

Miller wasn't the only rider having a race to forget wit🥀h Maverick Vinales forced to start from pit la✱ne after stalling ahead of the restart (and being taunted by technical issues thereafter).

KTM's ꧂Miguel Oliveira retiꦿred with a front tyre defect (Michelin has changed the hard option for this weekend as a precaution) and Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro suffered a technical failure after twice clashing with Marc Marquez at Turn 1.

Pedrosa and Savadori will both be ♔absent this weekend, the KTM test rider not (yet) planning a repeat of last Sꦛunday's wild-card entry while Savadori underwent surgery on an ankle injury.

But Ya🦄maha test rider Cal Crutchlow, riding in place of Franco Morbidelli at P💦etronas, will be back on track for the second of his three scheduled appearances.

One rider missing will be Maverick Vinales, sensationally suspended by Yamaha for 'unexplained irregular operation of the motorcycle' during last Sunday's race, rumoured to mean he waಌs deliberately over-revving the bike in frustration after a stall and further technical gremblins.