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Why Ducati should rename its MotoGP bike the ‘Desmodiffuser’
For the first time ever Ducati goes into a new season as favourite to win the MotoGP riders’ world championship, after winning the last two constructors’ titles. It’s taken a…
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MotoGP’s new-wave riding techniques: ‘They move on the bikes with an incredible intensity’
Incredible but true, Fabio Quartararo is the first MotoGP champion since Giacomo Agostini who didn’t work his way to the top by riding two-strokes. True, Quartararo rode two-stroke minibikes, but…
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MotoGP: The best of Mat Oxley from 2021
2021 was the year of a new MotoGP generation, as Valentino Rossi retired; Pecco Bagnaia and Joan Mir finished behind the 22-year-old champion Fabio Quartararo; and Ducati ended the season…
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‘When I crossed the finish line I started to scream, really scream!’
Danilo Petrucci retired from MotoGP at the end of last season, after a decade of fighting his way from the very bottom to the very top, winning the 2019 Italian…
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How Yamaha finally reconquered MotoGP
Last season Yamaha won its first MotoGP crown in six years after a long fight back to the top. Fabio Quartararo, crew chief Diego Gubellini and Yamaha MotoGP boss Takahiro Sumi guide us along that rocky road and reveal their aims for 2022
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Is it time to turn down MotoGP’s traction control?
Five years ago Dorna introduced lower-tech spec traction control to make MotoGP closer and more spectacular, but now there’s no more sideways action and less overtaking, so is it time to turn down the electronics again?
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The biggest motorcycle racing story ever told
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has sold three million copies – no other book that (kind of) tells the story of a motorcycle race has sold so well
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MotoGP’s new-wave riding techniques: ‘They move on the bikes with an incredible intensity’
Incredible but true, Fabio Quartararo is the first MotoGP champion since Giacomo Agostini who didn’t work his way to the top by riding two-strokes. True, Quartararo rode two-stroke minibikes, but…
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MotoGP: The best of Mat Oxley from 2021
2021 was the year of a new MotoGP generation, as Valentino Rossi retired; Pecco Bagnaia and Joan Mir finished behind the 22-year-old champion Fabio Quartararo; and Ducati ended the season…
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2021 MotoGP season review
Hopes that the global vaccine roll out would allow a return to a normal championship, spread across five continents, were soon dashed. The Japanese, Malaysian, Australian and Argentine GPs were…
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‘When I crossed the finish line I started to scream, really scream!’
Danilo Petrucci retired from MotoGP at the end of last season, after a decade of fighting his way from the very bottom to the very top, winning the 2019 Italian…
