Hayden made his MotoGP debut in Japan 2003 for the Repsol Honda Team and just two years later finished in third position in the championship behind Valentino Rossi and Marco Melandri.
The following year, only his fourth in MotoGP, he won the world championship title in a thrilling final in Valencia, denying Valentino Rossi a fifth consecutive crown. He made the switch to Ducati in 2009 where he remained for five seasons, before racing for independent team entries. In 2016 and ’17 Hayden raced for Honda in the World Superbike Championship, claiming one race victory in Sepang.
Balaton Park's debut as a MotoGP venue brought three tight chicanes, slow speed and a lot of turning into the equation. How do riders cope with the physicality of 300bhp-plus motorcycles?
Moto3 bikes go faster around most grand prix tracks than MotoGP bikes go around Balaton. This isn't the kind of circuit that's going to do anything good for the championship
The past, present and future collided at the Red Bull Ring, where Sao Paulo-born Diogo Moreira staked his claim to this year's Moto2 championship — and a seat on the MotoGP grid
The RS-GP is getting faster and faster, while Ducati continues to have its struggles with the GP25, so why can only Marc Márquez make the GP25 work?