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Honda’s MotoGP ‘comeback’
Honda is having its toughest season since it returned to grand prix racing with the fabulous oval-piston NR500 in the late 1970s and early 1980s. With its two fastest riders…
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Morbidelli's Aragon MotoGP win: ‘It really was a trip!’
The stupidest journalist questions can sometimes elicit the best answers. I discovered this some time ago, on the eve of the 1991 French Grand Prix, when Wayne Rainey had qualified…
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Is this the weirdest MotoGP season ever?
Surely, this is the weirdest MotoGP season ever. I’ve been in the paddock for roughly half the 72 seasons since the world championships were born and I can’t remember a…
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Öhlins shocker – Suzuki’s other MotoGP winning secret?
The Suzuki GSX-RR’s ability to keep the Michelins inside their sweet spot is one reason why the factory is leading the way in MotoGP. Could the other reason be Suzuki’s…
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2020 Aragon MotoGP: slowest bike wins the race
Suzuki took the lead in the four-stroke MotoGP world championship for the first time at Aragon on Sunday. The last time the company led a premier-class title chase was way…
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Valentino Rossi set to miss Aragon races after positive Coronavirus test
Valentino Rossi has confirmed he has tested positive for Coronavirus and that he is expecting to miss both Aragon races this month. Rossi underwent two separate tests on Thursday with…
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MotoGP’s fall world championship: title race turns frosty
As you read this there will be lots of MotoGP riders and teams nervously eyeing the weather forecast for this weekend and beyond. The global Covid pandemic has done strange…
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Why Crutchlow, Lowes and Dixon are doing something special
I’ve always had special respect for British riders who break out of road-bike racing to have a crack at MotoGP. Since the mid-1980s, most Britons start out racing road bikes…
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A Rossi landmark: his first-ever third consecutive crash
Valentino Rossi crashing out of three races in a row? That’s unheard of! In fact it has happened twice before in his career, but neither of those black runs were…
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Why MotoGP's V4s dominated rain-lashed Le Mans
Ducati, Honda and KTM locked out the top eight positions on Sunday's MotoGP French Grand Prix, because when the rain comes down, point and squirt is the way to go
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Missing Marc
It’s been strange not writing about Marc Márquez these last few months. Ever since the middle of 2012, when he signed his first MotoGP contract, he’s stolen most of the…
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Ducati confirms 2021 line-up with Bagnaia joining Miller at factory team
Ducati has confirmed that Francesco Bagnaia will partner up with current Pramac Ducati team-mate Jack Miller at the factory team for the 2021 MotoGP season. The Italian joined the Pramac…
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Einstein, Kleenex, Careless Chucker and other MotoGP nicknames
When journalists can’t get to MotoGP rounds during this year of Covid we are saved by the wonders of the internet – live TV, live timing, Zoom rider debriefs and…
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‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ — the bare, lone MotoGP paddock
In just a few months the global Covid pandemic has taken grand prix racing back to where it was half a century ago. Now the paddock is what it used…
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Rossi to Petronas: could it be a promotion?
In theory Valentino Rossi’s 2021 demotion from Yamaha’s factory team to its indie team is a demotion, but it may not turn out like that
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It’s Suzuki and Yamaha for the MotoGP title – for the first time since Rainey and Schwantz
Six races left and the battle for the 2020 world championship is turning into a Suzuki versus Yamaha duel. Which is a bit of a novelty. The last time that…
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50 years ago today in Barcelona: Barry Sheene’s GP debut
Fifty years ago today, just 20 miles from where I’m sat at the Barcelona circuit watching today’s MotoGP stars go to work, one of the greatest grand prix careers of…