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Last weekend’s French MotoGP round attracted 278,000 fans. Some go for the racing, others for the campsite mayhem. So how mad is the campsite and is this a lesson for MotoGP?

Marco Bezzecchi utterly dominated Sunday’s le Mans MotoGP race, in the 1000th GP since the championships started in 1949

Honda tried its new German-built chassis during last week’s Jerez tests, so the next step is to race it, possibly this weekend. But what engineering secrets is Moto2 dominator Kalex using to make the RC213V faster?

The racing is crazy, which is how we like it, but the penalties being handed out now are even crazier, which is why MotoGP’s stewards and race direction are losing the trust of riders, team managers, factory bosses and fans

Fifty years ago Jarno Saarinen was on his way to winning the 500cc (later MotoGP) world championship for the first time and few people in the know doubted he would…

Pecco Bagnaia’s superb Jerez MotoGP victory was the work of the very brave man, but the sideways antics of KTM wild men Brad Binder and Jack Miller were what really set the race alight

Rivalries define sport, so why has MotoGP run out of the head-to-head battles that used to fire up riders and fans?

Valentino Rossi’s VR46 MotoGP team and Riders Academy are ruling MotoGP – holding the top two places in the championship and winning two of 2023’s first three races. Team director Uccio Salucci tells Mat Oxley how they do it

No one expected that, did they? And I’m not accepting any of your so-called predictions, unless you have the betting slip and cash payout to prove it. A Ducati crashing…

The technology that MotoGP needs to create better racing will be in action at this weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours, so here’s a cunning plan…

Three of Ducati’s game-changing MotoGP technologies were created by a MotoGP engineering genius you’ve probably never heard of…

Franco Morbidelli fought for his first MotoGP podium since Jerez 2021, not once but twice at Termas, while fellow VR46 rider and first-time winner Marco Bezzecchi evoked memories of Marco Simoncelli

Forty years ago, on April 2, 1983, a British teenager made history at Le Mans. Eighteen-year-old Alan Carter won the French 250cc Grand Prix to become the youngest-ever intermediate-class GP…

Twenty years ago there were two high-stress moments per MotoGP weekend, now there are six, starting from FP1. No wonder there are major rumblings of discontent among riders and teams

That was a crazy, painful start to the 2023 MotoGP season but in among the madness were two big stories: KTM on the way up and Yamaha on the way down

Who will make MotoGP history at Portimao this afternoon? Probably a Ducati rider but it’s a new world, so no one really knows what will happen at 3pm

MotoGP sprint races will bring a major shake-up to grand prix weekends in 2023. Here ar the key details on how they'll work