Motorcycle News

Ducati will have no less than eight of its super-powerful Desmosedicis on the 2022 grid – how will rival manufacturers cope?

A quick stroll down the back of the MotoGP garages after a race always tells you as much as any post-race media conference. Yesterday evening there was Gigi Dall’Igna (already…

Marc Márquez will miss this weekend's Algarve Grand Prix after suffering a head injury in training

Over the past two decades, since Valentino Rossi graduated to the premier class aboard his bright yellow Honda NSR500 in 2000, yellow has been the unofficial colour of MotoGP. But…

Paul Smart, who has died following a road accident, rode through one of the greatest crossroads in motorcycle-racing history: from British dominance to Japanese dominance, from four-stroke to two-stroke and…

Last week’s decision to raise the minimum age limits across motorcycle racing was a start, but it should only be the beginning of a change of philosophy

On the afternoon of November 14 Valentino Rossi will contest his last motorcycle grand prix, 26 years and seven months after his first. It’s difficult to imagine the scenes that…

For the third time in just a few months we have been forced to write about deaths in motor cycling. In September Dean Berta Viñales was killed at Jerez; Jason…

Fabio Quartararo became France’s first MotoGP champion at Misano Sunday, but it’s been a rocky road getting there

Bagnaia ended his championship charge at Misano, while Repsol Honda scored its first one-two in more than four years and Quartararo got to wear the crown sooner than expected

Motorcycling’s governing body has announced that it will increase the minimum age of riders in its championships, following the deaths of three teenage racers this year. Work is also underway…

Darryn Binder will complete the Yamaha line-up for next year's MotoGP season

MotoGP hadn’t seen anyone like Marco Simoncelli for quite a while. He was a rough diamond washed up on a beach of smooth pebbles. The tall, ambling Italian was very…

MotoGP circuit safety has improved immeasurably in recent decades. Although riders crash more often than they used to – due to much closer competition and, ironically, safer tracks and better…

Talk of a riders’ strike didn’t last long at crazy-bumpy COTA, so when did MotoGP riders last go on strike and how did it happen?

The COTA Moto3 pile-up sent a chill through the entire paddock and Valentino Rossi believes the category is out of control, but did Deniz Öncü deserve a two-race ban for causing the accident?

The Frenchman and the Spaniard were supposed to go head-to-head in 2020, now it looks like they’ll have their title duel in 2022