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This weekend saw the MotoGP series visit the Qatar circuit at Lusail. Jorge Martin (Ducati) won Saturday’s Sprint race ahead of Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati) in second and Luca Marini (Ducati) in third.

The Malaysian round this weekend saw Alex Marquez (Ducati) in fine form as he won the Sprint on Saturday and finished second during the full distance race on Sunday. His attempt at sweeping the two races was stopped by a resurgent Enea Bastianini (Ducati) who took the Sunday win.

The red hot Adventure Touring segment will see a new and interesting entrant from Moto Guzzi for 2024. The new Stelvio gets the modernized 1,042 cc v-twin that debuted in 2022 with the V100 Mandello.

Without much detail, Kawasaki has announced 2024 models designated Z500 and Ninja 500. Describing the twin-cylinder engine as “new”, we suspect it is a version of the 451cc unit found in the recently introduced Eliminator.

2024 Suzuki GSX-S1000GX+ Suzuki is introducing two entirely new 2024 models. The GSX-8R is a sportier version of the naked GSX-8S introduced earlier this year, and powered by the torquey 776cc parallel twin engine.