Yamaha’s illegal engines: how did it happen?
Yamaha won’t forget the 2020 season in a hurry – blown engines, illegally modified engines, stewards' sanctions and more have tarnished the factory’s challenge for the MotoGP title
Valentino Rossi will return to MotoGP action at the European GP this weekend after posting a second negative Covid-19 test. Rossi had undergone a test and provided a negative result…
MotoGP has published its provisional calendar for 2021, as it looks to return to normality next year. For now, a full season of racing is planned, beginning in Qatar on…
WorldSBK rider Garret Gerloff has been selected as the stand-in rider for Valentino Rossi for this weekend's European Grand Prix should the Italian be unable to race at Valencia. Rossi's…
Three of 14 races remain in the 2020 MotoGP World Championship, Covid permitting. The second wave of the pandemic is racing through Europe as riders prepare for the triple-header finale…
Honda won its first grand prix at Montjuic Park, Barcelona, in the spring of 1961, with Aussie Tom Phillis riding a 125 four-stroke twin. Jaume Masia’s Teruel Moto3 victory was…
Last weekend was the end of Andrea Dovizioso’s hopes of winning the 2020 MotoGP world championship, indeed of ever winning the MotoGP title. The man who finished runner-up to Marc…
Until Ulsterman Jonathan Rea became the new king of World Superbikes, an outspoken young man from Blackburn wore that crown. Carl Fogarty is the son of George Fogarty, the man…
This maddest of mad MotoGP seasons reaches its climax next month, with back-to-back races at Valencia and the season-finale at Portimao. So far Fabio Quartararo has won the most races,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…