The 2025 MotoGP season got underway today with the first test in Sepang, with more than a quarter of the grid crashing and three riders breaking bones. Meanwhile the race to catch Ducati continues…
It’s a decade since Ducati transformed MotoGP by unleashing its first multi-wing Desmosedici in February 2016, so why are the Japanese manufacturers still behind and how can straggler Honda catch up?
Each winter, MotoGP publishes its annual falls report, a bulging document that includes each and every crash suffered by riders across all three classes – MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 –…
Is Bagnaia and Márquez in the same MotoGP team a recipe for success or for disaster? We looked for clues in today’s factory Ducati team launch in Madonna di Campiglio
MotoGP king Jorge Martin has always had a killer instinct – “I guess I have a really killer mentality,” he told me a few years ago – but he believes…
Eddie Lawson’s fourth and final MotoGP championship was a miracle – he won the title aboard arguably the nastiest MotoGP bike of all time. His engineer Erv Kanemoto reveals how they transformed the Honda’s NSR500 and why 1989 was a pivotal moment in MotoGP technical development
2025 dawns with the potential to be a vintage year of racing. Our contributors offer the predictions that they would most like to see this season
The Japanese manufacturers are having a horrible time in MotoGP, perhaps their toughest since they evolved from manufacturing weaponry for the Japanese military in World War Two
After a season-long MotoGP championship battle, and plenty more going on behind the scenes, here are the highlights from Mat Oxley in 2024
It’s an accepted truth that Bagnaia lost the championship through his frequent falls, but deeper analysis of his and Martin’s results prove otherwise
Jorge Martin’s 2024 MotoGP title success was historic – the young Spaniard is only the sixth rider in 76 years of world-championship racing to win the crown for an independent…
Many believe that Ducati dominates MotoGP thanks to gadgets like mass dampers, ride-height adjusters and downforce aero, but its biggest advantage may be its in-depth tyre analysis, assisted by MegaRide’s latest gizmo
Part two of our chat with Yamaha’s ex-Ducati, ex-Ferrari F1 tech boss Max Bartolini, who tells why MotoGP’s current tyres and new rules made a V4 inevitable and why it’s so difficult to catch Ducati
No one in MotoGP has more work to do right now than Yamaha, which is developing an all-new V4-powered motorcycle, while continuing development of its inline-four YZR-M1, because it’s not…
“I never really considered myself a road racer, I just did road racing to get Grand National points in the States.” So says one of the greatest motorcycle road racers…
BMW has never tried to win the MotoGP world championship. The German manufacturer made a vague attempt in the 1950s, with a 500cc boxer-twin four-stroke, which took second place in…
