MotoGP
Brazilian GP: Bezzecchi and Aprilia the winners, MotoGP the loser
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
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
'A MotoGP bike is an aeroplane that flies on the ground!'
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
MotoGP
MotoGP’s vortex generators and other tech tricks
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
MotoGP
Did Thai GP show MotoGP's new order?
The Thai MotoGP season-opener was full of surprises, but was Buriram a blueprint for 2026 or a mirage?
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
MotoGP
MotoGP at an F1 street circuit? Are they insane?
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
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?
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