Motorcycle News

Every MotoGP team's retro livery for this weekend's British GP, as well as details on where they found their historic inspiration

John McGuinness will race during this weekend’s Silverstone MotoGP round with Valentino Rossi’s coaching. Plus MotoGP’s flick of the wrist riding-technique secret

Moto2 lap and race records are broken most weekends by Pirelli, but there’s still more to come, say the championship’s top chassis constructors. Plus, will the Italian company bid to become MotoGP’s sole tyre supplier from 2027?

Former MotoGP winner Cal Crutchlow always says what he thinks, so how does he rate the series' top riders and why does he think today’s bikes are the championship's biggest problem?

Yamaha is trying to fix its YZR-M1 with regular updates while Honda's MotoGP team seems to be taking a different route, with hints of an all-new RC213V for September

Technical regulations are hugely important in motor sport because they play a crucial role in the quality of the racing. And, like it or not, motor sport is now more…

Pecco Bagnaia won his fourth consecutive race, Jorge Martin lost the championship lead when he crashed out, but, as always, Marc Márquez provided the biggest drama of the weekend

Why most F1 drivers love MotoGP. And why talk of F1 superstar Lewis Hamilton buying a MotoGP team may have something to do with Liberty Media’s buying the championship

Ducati’s wolf in sheep’s clothing on his way to the MotoGP pantheon, the Italian manufacturer becomes the first to monopolise five consecutive GP podiums and Marc Márquez dogged by controversy once again

This year’s British GP will feature two BSB Superstock races, with the aim of staging BSB Superbike races in 2025. Plus Silverstone boss reveals what it’s like dealing with Liberty Media, MotoGP’s new owners

Racing is in thrall to the cult of youth but the death, earlier this month, of nine-year-old motorcycle racer Lorenzo Somaschini has prompted Matt Bishop to ask whether higher minimum age limits should be imposed

History was made at Misano last weekend when crashes, injuries and bad blood between top riders proved that women’s motorcycle racing isn’t much different to men’s

The first-ever world championship race took place on 13th June 1949. Four days later the first premier-class race was won by a rider who wasn’t allowed to fight in World War Two because his eyesight was so bad. Different times…

Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, an appropriate time to remember what WW2 airbases have done for British motorcycle racing – since 1945 more than seventy have hosted bike races

MotoGP has never been harder fought than it is now. A decade of rewriting the rules, levelling up the grid and getting rid of any stragglers has seen to that.…

Pecco Bagnaia’s third consecutive Mugello MotoGP victory was a masterpiece: his jaw-droppingly brave first two corners and his mind-bendingly metronomic pace over the entire 23 laps were awesome to behold.…

Bigger risks, bigger pressure, bigger calendar – no wonder Aleix Espargaró says the day he announced his MotoGP retirement last week as one of the best of his life