Downforce aerodynamics is increasingly important in MotoGP but more downforce means more drag, which is a problem for the less powerful inline-four machines used by Suzuki and Yamaha
First it was rear-end shapeshifters, now it’s front-end shapeshifters too. Should MotoGP ban these devices? And is it possible to ban the technology?
Sepang is done, with just three days of testing left and less than four weeks to the first race. So what are Aprilia, Ducati, Honda, KTM, Suzuki and Yamaha up to?
Suzuki’s challenge for 2022: build a motorcycle that’s fast enough for Mir and Rins to drive home the GSX-RR’s advantages, rather than just compensate for its disadvantages
The backflip capped it all, didn’t it? At 47, Sébastien Loeb had just eclipsed Björn Waldegard’s record set at the 1990 Safari Rally to become the World Rally Championship’s oldest…
Honda says Marc Márquez is now fully fit having recovered from his double vision injury from 2021
KTM was the hero of the 2020 MotoGP season, then struggled in 2021. Team engineers tell us they need to improve qualifying speed and corner-exit performance to get back to the front in 2022
Aprilia’s technical director Romano Albesiano talks openly about the factory’s fight to get to the front of and the challenges of MotoGP engineering in general
Marc Márquez has conducted a successful private test as he continues to recover from his eye injury
If Ducati’s Desmosedici is favourite to win the 2022 MotoGP title, who or what might stop it? The last two MotoGP championships have been won by inline-fours – Suzuki’s GSX-RR…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
