What KTM’s RC16 needs to run at the front of MotoGP again
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
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?
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
F1 and MotoGP have announced new deals to keep the Spanish and Catalan GPs on their respective calendars until 2026
MotoGP bikes will run entirely on green, sustainable fuel from 2027 after manufacturers and fuel companies signed up to a new environmental strategy that will eliminate fossil fuels from top-level…
The most remarkable grand prix career – in Formula 1 or MotoGP – came to an end at Valencia, Spain, at 2.42pm on November 14. Valentino Rossi finished his 432nd…
Finally, France has its first premier-class motorcycle world champion. A hundred and twenty seven years since the world’s first autocycle racer spluttered out of Paris, en route to Rouen, Fabio…
Valentino Rossi went into the 2021 MotoGP season determined to keep racing bikes into 2022, but his results dropped off a cliff, so what went wrong?