With pre-season programmes finalised and targets being drawn up for 2019, Crash.net looks at what each MotoGP manufacturer needs to achieve this season
'There are very small differences but it makes a lot over one lap. So we need to be sure which engine we prefer' - Maverick Vinales, Valencia MotoGP test.
Maverick Vinales takes his first MotoGP pole position since Aragon last year as Marc Marquez goes from a dislocated shoulder to a gutsy fifth place
Danilo Petrucci has demonstrated his impressive pace in tricky wet conditions to edge out Marc Marquez while both Movistar Yamaha riders toiled
Marc Marquez has ended Maverick Vinales MotoGP dominance in 2017 by taking pole in Argentina by a comfortable seventh-tenths from an impressive Karel Abraham, who clinched his best-ever premier class qualifying position in drying conditions.