MotoGP
Here comes MotoGP's longest, weirdest season
How MotoGP’s volatile rider market will play havoc with riders and manufacturers working to develop their all-new 850s for 2027
Mat Oxley
Columnist
As a racer, Mat is an Isle of Man TT winner and lap record holder. As a scribbler, he’s been at it since the late 1980s and has written acclaimed biographies of Valentino Rossi and Mick Doohan – plus he’s an award-winning commentator too.
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MotoGP at an F1 street circuit? Are they insane?
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MotoGP
MotoGP revolution is in the air and why 2026 will be 2001 all over again
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
MotoGP
Once again Ducati shows MotoGP who is boss
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
MotoGP
HRC's tech boss: 'The 850s will be less easy, more challenging to ride'
HRC technical director Romano Albesiano tells us why the RC213V is getting faster and what computer-modelling has told him about MotoGP’s new 850s
MotoGP
Pirelli’s MotoGP plans: ‘the front tyre needs to communicate with the rider’
When Pirelli become MotoGP tyre suppliers next year it hopes the friendliness of its tyres will transform the racing, as they’ve done in Moto2
MotoGP
MotoGP’s great unknown: How fast really is Toprak Razgatlıoğlu?
Razgatlıoğlu says 2026 is for adaptation, team-mate Miller explains why a Yamaha V4 is a must and Yamaha race boss tells us why they’re not stealing a march on their rivals by racing their 850 in 2026
MotoGP
MotoGP bikes 25 years ago: 'You take a bull, cut off its balls, then climb on its back'
2026 is the 25th anniversary of MotoGP’s switch to big four-strokes, the championship’s biggest technical revolution of all time. Honda’s RC211V was the best motorcycle on that historic 2002 grid, but which was the year’s wildest MotoGP bike?
MotoGP
MotoGP 2025 crash report: a new all-time record but Moto2 crashes down by 35%
Moto3’s Cormac Buchanan breaks Sam Lowes’ all-time record, while Moto2 riders crash much, much less, thanks to the arrival of Pirelli, which spells good news for MotoGP riders from 2027
MotoGP
A MotoGP rider’s job is to ‘race and skid and crash and then make love and drink wine’
MotoGP has always required self-sacrifice and always rewarded its fastest survivors with gold, glory and everything else. This interview with MotoGP’s biggest winner of all time paints a perfect picture of the risk and reward equation in racing’s golden age
MotoGP
Gresini Racing's rollercoaster of MotoGP triumph and tragedy
Gresini Racing's money man Carlo Merlini recalls the highs and lows experienced by MotoGP's top indie team, from winning 26 MotoGP races and four world titles in the smaller classes to losing Daijiro Kato, Marco Simoncelli and Fausto Gresini
MotoGP
Was Martín's title defence the worst in MotoGP history?
Reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martín completed the 2025 season in 21st place, after a title defence destroyed by multiple injuries
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