MotoGP

Tom O’Kane has been working in MotoGP since the late 1980s, when he joined the paddock’s most go-ahead team – Marlboro Team Roberts Yamaha – to introduce the first serious…

Next week’s opening pre-season tests at Sepang will be the first time MotoGP uses its spec tyre pressure sensors in preparation for the introduction of new minimum-pressure rules. So how will these new regulations affect the riders, the manufacturers and the spectacle?

MotoGP testing gets underway at Sepang, Malaysia, on February 10, with Aprilia, Honda, KTM and Yamaha hoping to close the gap on Ducati. How will they do it? With great…

There are all the usual reasons we talk about when discussing Ducati’s MotoGP success, but underpinning it all is something that no one really talks about: computer modelling, virtual reality and artificial intelligence…

Aprilia goes into the 2023 MotoGP world championship as a genuine title challenger. Technical director Romano Albesiano guides us through the latest RS-GP developments, from engine to aero

Yamaha is using Formula 1 engine knowhow to make its YZR-M1 faster, but will it be enough to beat the V4 hordes? Plus we reveal why the M1 is no longer the easy-to-ride motorcycle it used to be

Honda had a horrible 2022 MotoGP season, so we asked Marc Márquez and Stefan Bradl to tell us what went wrong with the RC213V, while HRC’s MotoGP technical manager Takeo Yokoyama reveals his plans to fix the bike for 2023

Given that Ducati was supplying a third of the MotoGP grid in 2022, perhaps it's little surprise that factory rider Pecco Bagnaia emerged as the champion. The result was far…

Honda has just completed its worst grand prix season since it raced the fabulous but flawed NR500 four-stroke in 1981. The company didn’t score a single MotoGP victory during 2022,…

Pecco Bagnaia’s 2022 MotoGP world championship success is important because he is the first Italian to win the title since Valentino Rossi in 2009. Italy is MotoGP’s most successful nation,…

Last season many fans agreed that the racing at the front of World Superbikes was better than MotoGP, which is why some MotoGP riders and engineers are worried by recent developments – so what’s to be done?

Brad Binder talks riding technique – why MotoGP riders use less electronics, not more, how he locks the front tyre without crashing, why the leg dangle helps him tip into corners, why setting up a bike with downforce aero is so different and much more…

Enea Bastianini tells us how he gets the best out of a MotoGP bike and how he’s looking forward to fighting with new team-mate and reigning champion Pecco Bagnaia

Motorcycle racing has a problem. The smallest categories in the sport’s two major championships – MotoGP and World Superbike – are causing a worrying number of fatalities. During the past…

Francesco Bagnaia claimed the MotoGP world championship after a dramatic duel with out-going champion Fabio Quartararo at Valencia. ‘Pecco’ held a comfortable points lead heading into the season finale in…

We’ve been thrilled by two decades of grand prix racing’s big-bore MotoGP world championship. So, what are its ten greatest moments? And the five worst?

MotoGP is so tight now that technical revolutions don’t work anymore, it’s all tiny evolutions, which is what we saw during yesterday’s one-day post-season test at Valencia