How Aprilia reached MotoGP’s summit: ‘Ideas come from people that are not shy’
Aprilia’s RS-GP has utterly dominated the start of 2026, so how did MotoGP’s smallest manufacturer get here and what does Ducati need to do to close the gap?
Aprilia rider Marco Bezzecchi is dominating the 2026 MotoGP season with the same quiet, truculent self-assurance that has always made him impossible to ignore, and even harder to interview
The first Brazilian MotoGP round in 22 years was characterised by a track that was falling apart, not that Bezzecchi and Aprilia seemed to mind
These are happy days for Aprilia, which leads the MotoGP constructors’ championship for the first time in its history. And there’s no one better to tell its story than team manager Paolo Bonora, who joined Aprilia in 2002 to do pioneering electronics work on the Cube MotoGP bike
Vortex generators are all the rage in MotoGP, featuring on the latest KTM, Aprilia and Yamaha, so what do they do? Plus other developments spotted in the Buriram pitlane
The 2026 MotoGP season is up-and-running, but its future is still being thrashed out as teams negotiate with the series organiser over revenue shares and publicity stunts
The Thai MotoGP season-opener was full of surprises, but was Buriram a blueprint for 2026 or a mirage?
Not exactly. They just want to make money. The MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group is embracing Liberty’s city races concept with plans to move the Australian GP from Phillip Island to Adelaide’s old Formula 1 street circuit
MotoGP has been waiting for Toprak Razgatlioglu for the past five years, since the Turkish rider won his first World Superbike title. Some observers call him the Marc Márquez of…
The coming MotoGP season will echo the summer of 2001 when the manufacturers fought each other on two fronts – racing their last 500s while simultaneously developing their revolutionary 2002 replacements, most famously Honda’s sublime RC211V
Aprilia, Honda and KTM have made steps into 2026, but it was Ducati that put all five of its riders inside the top six at the first pre-season tests