What do MotoGP fans really, really want?
The findings of Dorna’s MotoGP fans survey landed at Misano, as did Pecco Bagnaia’s controversial helmet and the announcement that MotoGP will race in Saudi Arabia. What to make of it all?
“I had the knife here,” said a weary-looking Fabio Quartararo outside Yamaha’s Misano garage on Sunday afternoon. The man who has led the 2022 MotoGP championship since April’s Portuguese GP…
They say history is another country, and MotoGP in the early 1970s was so different to its modern-day counterpart to be barely recognisable
With Marc Márquez lost to injury and post-op rehab, Honda is struggling like never before in MotoGP, so what does grand prix racing’s most successful manufacturer need to win again? Plus Márquez’s plans to race again, possibly in October
Pecco Bagnaia scored his third consecutive victory on Sunday, chased by miracle-maker Fabio Quartararo, while third title contender Aleix Espargaró struggled
MotoGP action has suffered in recent years due to an overloaded front tyre. Next month factory team test riders will get the chance to evaluate Michelin’s long-awaited solution to this problem
A hundred years or so ago the world was accelerating faster than ever, thanks to the arrival of the internal-combustion engine, the telephone, electricity and other new technologies that turbocharged…
Fabio Quartararo is coming under increasing pressure from MotoGP’s Italian V4s. So what are his chances at the last eight races? And why has Yamaha hired an Italian Formula 1 engine designer?
Andrea Dovizioso announced his retirement last week, after two decades in the grand prix paddock. The Italian had his greatest years after MotoGP switched to Michelin tyres, when he became famous for his last-corner defeats of Marc Márquez. So how did he do it?
The 2022 title fight is now a three-way battle after a red-hot weekend at Silverstone, where Aleix Espargaro was the hero after a huge Saturday highside. The question is: why didn’t his TC save him?
Andrea Dovizioso has announced his retirement from MotoGP after the San Marino GP at Misano
As MotoGP travels to Silverstone, where Formula 1 cars raced five weeks ago, now is as good a time as any to tell the story of how a Norton-based engine beat Ferrari to the F1 constructors' championship
2020 MotoGP king Mir is rumoured to be joining Honda next year, so what are the secrets of his riding technique and how will they translate to the RC213V?
Back in the spring of 1980 the world’s most famous motorcycle racer made a phone call to a dilapidated corrugated-iron shed in deepest Hertford, north of London. Barry Sheene had…
The world never stops changing and motorcycling’s elite with it. Riders and motorcycles come and go. Empires rise and crumble. And sometimes ancient empires arise from the dust. MotoGP seems…
Ramon Forcada has been a MotoGP chief crew for three decades, working on Honda’s NSR500, RC211V and RC212V, then Yamaha’s YZR-M1. He talks about working with two-stroke 500s, the big changes that have taken place in MotoGP in recent years and the category’s current problems
If you’re disappointed about the current lack of great MotoGP battles, don’t worry, there are some fights on the way. You just won’t see them