It’s time for El Diablo to take the stage. MotoGP headed back to Misano for the second time this season, and we had a thrilling fight at the front of the field between Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia… Until the latter made a carbon copy error from last year and gift wrapped Fabio Quartararo the world championship. We break it all down, as well as Fabio’s impact as the new World Champion and why Dre thinks he could be a huge win for the sport.

We also talk Marc Marquez’s breakthrough win on a clockwise circuit, and despite Bagnaia’s heartbreak, the tantalizing prospect of the four best riders in the world on four different machines going into 2022.

We also responded to the news that the FIM and Dorna will be fundamentally changing the junior scene forever with age limit restrictions being tightened in the junior series. For example, Moto3’s World Championship will be 18+ only from 2023, as well as 16+ for the Junior World Title. We get into why the age limit change is only a bandaid on the problem, and Dre talks about an infamous Twitter conversation he had regarding the matter…

All that and more on a hectic, and heated episode of Motorsport101!

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Living in Ammerrrrrrrrrrrica. For the first time in 2 years, Formula 1 returned to the United States for a good old fashioned time trial showdown between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, with the Red Bull man coming out on top. Just. We break down an intense fight that was decided on tyre conservation, strategy and the two best racing drivers on the planet beating the shit out of each other over 300km, and where we think the title race might be heading with four rounds left.

We also had a man over there, RJ O’Connell of course! And we touch base with him on what makes COTA special. It was an overriding theme of the weekend, with an estimated 400,000 people descending into Texas, pushing the infrastructure, with a lot of people adamant that Formula 1 is on the brink of a Mainstream push in a market it seems desperate to crack. But is that actually the case? Dre and King break down the hard numbers behind the attention to make sense of it all.

Annoyingly though, the biggest story of the weekend might have been Megan The Stallion’s appearance on the grid walk and a clash with Sky Sports F1’s Martin Brundle, with the latter being shoved out of her former presence via a bodyguard. A story that went so viral, TMZ ended up reporting on it. As much the protagonists involved took it all in seemingly good grace, the gang break down the underlying BS beneath the surface and why many people were channeling their anger in the wrong areas.

All that and more in America, on Motorsport101, check back soon for Fabio Quartararo’s title win in Misano 2!

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