Pertamina Grand Prix of Indonesia

Raskadlioglu has not had a great season, but the reason he is in the championship was to learn the championship before the change tyres at the end of the year.

He's going in for shoulder surgery, isn't he, after the Indonesian Grand Prix.

which he's going to do on Monday in Milan, this Monday coming.

I think it's going to be Augusto Fernandes who will step in for him.

Then I've been in Japan for the Japanese Grand Prix while Manon was at the MXoN, MX of Nations race.

Now I'm here at the Indonesian Grand Prix, and I finally get to chat to you ladies once again.

So how are you guys? I've missed you so much.

Yeah, welcome back.

This is episode number 869.

13th of October, 2026, the Indonesian Grand Prix.

Feeling the pressure as a working title for this episode.

I'm Jim McDowell.

I just think it juxtaposes badly with the idea that most of the locals can't afford to go there simply because it's an island.

remotely away from the center and all that, and you know, it's Indonesia, there are a lot of fans, but still, regardless, you know, there is stuff to speak for the Indonesian Grand Prix in general, and I don't think the track is by far the worst offender of any, like, I think it's capable.

I think more than anything else, and I'll reinforce your point, I do constantly find myself thinking about the fact that Indonesia was, the circuit that was built, and I'm terribly sorry if the people are not aware of this, but off of slave labour, and so to have all of these camera shots showing the beautiful resort-style setup that they have in and around that area and being like, well but it's not exactly as if the local population can even afford to access any of this stuff and so to be focusing on that as one of the main kind of attraction points of mandalika has never quite sat well with me

yeah

Please get on the books soon this season.

Thank you.

Well, talking of people who probably, one of the few people in the entire paddock who was prepared for the temperatures we were going to have over the course of the Indonesian Grand Prix, my ride of the day, I've gone for Veda Pratama.

Yay! Local hero, having his best ride in a minute.

... geographically, not so much.

The Indonesian Grand Prix, uh, where, well, Aprilia riders went one, two, three, four for the first time in their history.

Uh, but considering everything, how this weekend panned out, was Marc Marquez actually the biggest winner considering he left Indonesia with the same points deficit he arrived with? Just two points, so practically nothing.

Despite this being, as was certainly evidenced by the time we got to Sunday, the weakest track, well, probably for the rest of the season, right?

The Athletic.

Lots and lots of things happened over the Indonesian Grand Prix MotoGP weekend, yet the championship picture is exactly the same coming out of Mandalika as it was coming in, bar Marco Pizzecchi being a little bit closer.

This is the Race MotoGP podcast.

I'm Matt Beer, with me are Simon Patterson, still in the Mandalika Media Centre, and Val Harunchi.

In sports, Hubert Hurkacz, the twenty twenty-three Shanghai champion and world number thirty-four, has beaten Novak Djokovic in straight sets six-four, six-three in the second round of the Shanghai Masters as the thirty-nine-year-old faltered against his big serving oppon-opponent, a decade his junior, after memorably winning the China Open this week.

And Raul Fernandez has set a new lap record to top the standings at the end of a crash-laden practice session at the Indonesian MotoGP today.

The Superfile Trackhouse racer clocked one minute twenty-eight point seven two five seconds at a dry Pertamina Mandalika International Circuit to push Aprilia's Marco Bezzecchi, who had led after the first session into second place by zero point two one nine seconds.

For more on these stories, news, updates, and much more, head on over to rtltoday.lu.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to the first Paddock Pass podcast note show from the Indonesian Grand Prix at the Man Circuit.

Right, Dave? We're stopping at Man, or we add in extra syllables.

Exactly.

It is the Bathurst 1000 with lights out at 11:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time on Sunday.

That's followed by the Indonesian Motorcycle Grand Prix at 6:00 PM, and then it's the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix from 11:00 PM.

Do your stretches before and then just occupy the place on the couch.

You can keep up to date with all the latest F1, Supercars, and MotoGP news at foxsports.com.au. From Matt Clayton and me, Michael Lamonato, thanks very much for your company.

He hasn't had the kind of recovery time between races.

Obviously, it's a fairly substantial trip as well, going from Japan to Indonesia, while you can rest with a beautiful bintang just next to the beach on the island of Lombok, ahead of the Indonesian Grand Prix.

You know, it's still substantial travel.

So, yeah, next week could be a tougher test.