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By Crash.net   https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/892585/1/rossi-it-will-be-hard-fight   Having kicked off his 23rd grand prix season with a close podium finish in Qatar, Valentino Rossimoves on to Argentina feeling he can 'try to fight' for a tenth MotoGP title this season. The Italian crossed the finish line just 0.797s from Ducati race winner Andrea Dovizioso at Losail, with Honda reigning champion Marc Marquez in-between. Rossi has finished runner-up at Termas for the last two years - including a 2017 Movistar Yamaha one-two behind team-mate Maverick Vinales - and took victory in the 2015 event after a memorable clash with Marquez. "Last year we were very...

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Reigning world number two Chaz Davies brought himself back into the 2018 Championship fight with an opening win of the new season.

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Carmelo Ezpeleta's Grand Plan, Or The Long History Behind Tech3's Switch To KTM Sometimes decisions are a long time in the making. Tech3's decision to leave Yamaha and sign with KTM may have been made in the space of a few months, but the genesis of that choice, the process that made it all possible is ten years in the making. If MotoGP hadn't switched from 990cc to 800cc at the start of the 2007 season, if the ban on tobacco sponsorship in sports hadn't been enforced from 2005, if the financial system hadn't collapsed under the weight of tranches...

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