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In 1976, Pete Davies won the Avon Roadrunner race series riding a bike that was virtually street-legal. The machine in question was the original Laverda Jota, a model developed by…

Valentino Rossi probably doesn’t want to know this – although he probably already knows it in his gut – but 2020 was his worst season since he joined the grand…

Northern Ireland is the UK’s home of real roadracing – that’s racing between the hedges. The country’s fascination with this ancient art goes all the way back to the British…

Ducati is asking the MotoGP tyre supplier to introduce its new front slick a year early. Plus Ducati’s excitement about its Moto2 arrivals: Bastianini, Marini and Martin

There’s never been a season like it – Covid-19 made sure of that – but MotoGP 2020 will also be remembered for other reasons

Mir and Alonso Take the two debut championship winners, for example. Two young Spaniards who rose above the rest with relentless consistency. Alonso's immense 2005 form meant he finished on…

There’s been so much talk about Yamaha’s 2019 and 2020 YZR-M1s in recent weeks that this may be a good time to look into the joys of second-hand MotoGP bikes.…

Yamaha management probably don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Franco Morbidelli’s superb third MotoGP victory was Yamaha’s seventh of the year and puts the factory back in the hunt…

The Spanish youngster took biking’s biggest prize in only his fifth grand prix season, during which Joan Mir had to beat Covid as well as his rivals

Cal Crutchlow has been confirmed as Yamaha's test rider for 2021, bringing an end to a decade as a full-time MotoGP racer. The most successful British GP rider since Barry…

Andrea Dovizioso has announced he will be taking a sabbatical from MotoGP racing next season. The Italian had already confirmed he would not be re-signing with Ducati for next year…

Andrea Iannone has been handed a four-year suspension after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) denied the Italian's appeal to overturn his ban over a positive anabolic steroid test,…

Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Márquez has confirmed that he will not return to ride his Repsol Honda bike again in 2020 and has switched focus to his 2021 season preparation.…

I don’t know about you but I get pre-race butterflies whenever a MotoGP season draws towards its climax. I know it’s ridiculous, because I’m sat comfortably where no harm can…

Since Yamaha entered MotoGP in 1973 the factory team has endured only two grands prix worse than last week’s Grand Prix of Europe – when Jarno Saarinen was killed at…

Joan Mir danced on the edge throughout Sunday’s race at Valencia, so much so that it looked like Suzuki team manager Davide Brivio might have a heart attack at any…

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