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Jack Miller’s Desmosedici GP22 features its own special shapeshifter actuator system – so what exactly is Ducati up to now?

The Isle of Man TT was the world’s biggest, best-known motorcycle race for most of the first century of the internal combustion engine. Then 50 years ago something happened that…

The factory Ducati team has had a woeful start to 2022 but Gigi Dall’Igna or Pecco Bagnaia aren’t worried, because they’ve regained their 2021 feeling by reverting to GP21 settings. And some details on HRC’s troubles

Fabio Quartararo bounced back from a poor start to his MotoGP title defence at Portimão, to share the title lead with Alex Rins, who finished 2021 outside the championship top ten. Their success is all in the mind…

Four of MotoGP's all-time legends will come together at the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed

MotoGP is all about doing everything as fast as you can, whether you’re on track or in pit lane. Which begs the question – why do you see mechanics going…

Suzuki’s 2022 GSX-RR is much quicker than its 2021 bike, so what’s the secret: more horsepower or less drag?

Jack Miller knew what was coming, because he’s been there before. The factory Ducati rider led three-quarters of Sunday’s Americas GP, heading for a much-needed first victory since Le Mans…

Two numbers sum up the enormity of Marc Márquez’s comeback ride at COTA on Sunday. At the end of the first lap, after an electronics glitch put him last going…

Last weekend’s Argentine GP nearly didn’t happen due to logistics problems, but that was nothing compared to what happened at the first Argentine GP in the 1960s

It’s taken Aprilia almost three decades and a variety of different motorcycles – from a two-stroke V-twin to a four-stroke V4 – to win a race in the class of kings. This is how the company did it

So far this season there have been three different winners from the first three races and nine different riders on the podium at those races, so not one rider has…

Although there seems a certain amount of finality surrounding MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi’s retirement from two-wheeled racing, we have to remember that this, for him, is merely the closing of…

The reigning World Superbike champion may switch to MotoGP next year or the year after, but will his technique work with GP bikes and tyres?

The most successful chassis designer in the MotoGP paddock doesn’t work for Ducati or Honda or Yamaha or any of the other big manufacturers. Alex Baumgärtel works for his own…

Last Tuesday MotoGP announced that it will ban controversial front-end shapeshifting technology from the end of this season. This decision is of huge significance for the future of MotoGP, because…

Formula 1-inspired, accumulator-operated holeshot/shapeshifting device and other tech spots from the first two MotoGP rounds