Raul Fernandez is formally a MotoGP winner, after taking a shock maiden victory within the 2025 Australian Grand Prix.
For a lot of his 4 years within the premier class, the Trackhouse rider has underwhelmed, having proven immense promise in Moto2 in 2021.
Beforehand scoring a better of fifth on simply two events, Raul Fernandez capitalised on a double lengthy lap penalty for pre-race favorite Marco Bezzecchi to manage the 27-lap grand prix.
MotoGP now has seven winners on the season, with three first-time winners.
Aprilia as soon as once more confirmed its velocity as its menace in the direction of Ducati mounts, whereas Marc Marquez’s absence was felt arduous by the manufacturing unit Ducati squad.
This, and extra, are the themes of dialogue within the newest Crash MotoGP Podcast.
“It has performed, actually, the final two rounds,” Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren stated of Aprilia’s type towards Ducati. “They’ve actually ironed out the peaks and the troughs that the RS-GP did have. And the riders have stepped up and made probably the most of it. Raul was injured in the beginning of the yr, the final two years, on the Sepang check. After which in comes a rookie team-mate who destabilises him a bit by being so quick proper on the first spherical. That will need to have been a tough factor for him to take as a result of he was the one one with Aprilia expertise that was carrying over to this yr. So, we had been all anticipating this to be his likelihood…”
