Suzuki will be bringing a vast collection of Barry Sheene’s bikes to the Barry Sheene Classic at Oliver’s Mount this year, creating what is said to be the largest line-up…
Motorcycle racing and other sports are bubbles – microcosms of life that allow competitors and fans to invest themselves in something wonderful but ultimately trivial. When working in the paddock…
The first two races of the MotoGP season have been cancelled due to coronavirus measures, pushing back the start of the season by a month. The season-opening race was scheduled…
Gigi ‘Gadget’ Dall’Igna is up to his tricks again. Ducati’s chief engineer – the man who gave MotoGP wings, holeshot devices, wheel fairings, ‘swinglets’ and much more about which we’ll…
Marc Márquez has extended his Honda contract by four years, which will take the six-time MotoGP champion to December 2024. Márquez has already won 56 grands prix with HRC since…
Some people think modern electronic control systems and ever-improving mechanical performance makes MotoGP bikes undemanding. They are wrong, says Mat Oxley, and here’s why
The three-times MotoGP world champion’s MotoGP retirement lasted all of 81 days. And now there’s talk of a race return in June. What exactly is going on?
Only a fool or a dreamer would suggest that Marc Márquez isn’t favourite to win this year’s MotoGP world championship, to add to the 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and…
The first skirmish of MotoGP’s 2020 phoney war is over. Yamaha came out on top, with Fabio Quartararo fastest on each of the three days of the opening pre-season tests…
After several years running along at tick-over, Yamaha’s MotoGP project is picking up revs because factory bosses have realised they need to get serious if they are to beat Honda…
Fabio Quartararo has signed a two-year deal to replace Valentino Rossi at Yamaha’s factory team in 2021. The Japanese manufacturer moved early to prevent last season’s rookie of the year…
Yamaha has announced that Maverick Viñales has signed a new two-year extension, keeping him with the team until the end of the 2022 season. Viñales has been a Yamaha rider…
It’s an old racing truism that the most important part of a racing motorcycle is its tyres. Why? Because the tyres are the interface between motorcycle and race track, so…
V4-powered MotoGP bikes have won 44 of the last 50 MotoGP races, a victory rate of 88 per cent, and topped the speed charts at 47 of the last 50…
Valentino Rossi’s racetrack achievements are awe-inspiring: 23 world championship seasons and 323 grands prix contested since March 1996, 115 victories, 232 podiums and nine world titles across three classes. And…
Not many riders get to be factory riders in their rookie MotoGP season. Usually this only happens to the greats, like Marc Márquez and Maverick Viñales. This year 2016 Moto3 world champion and…
