MotoGP
Rossi to Petronas: could it be a promotion?
In theory Valentino Rossi’s 2021 demotion from Yamaha’s factory team to its indie team is a demotion, but it may not turn out like that
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MotoGP
It’s Suzuki and Yamaha for the MotoGP title – for the first time since Rainey and Schwantz
Six races left and the battle for the 2020 world championship is turning into a Suzuki versus Yamaha duel. Which is a bit of a novelty. The last time that…
MotoGP
50 years ago today in Barcelona: Barry Sheene’s GP debut
Fifty years ago today, just 20 miles from where I’m sat at the Barcelona circuit watching today’s MotoGP stars go to work, one of the greatest grand prix careers of…
MotoGP
Confirmed: Valentino Rossi will race for Yamaha satellite MotoGP team in 2021
Valentino Rossi will be back on the MotoGP grid next year with Yamaha's Petronas SRT satellite team. The deal for 2021 was announced this weekend and will see the nine-time…
MotoGP
Marc Márquez targets return: 'I'll be back at the top'
Marc Márquez has said that he will be back on track sooner rather than later, as he continues to recover from the broken arm that has taken him out of…
MotoGP
MotoGP track limits and beyond
The 2020 MotoGP world championship is so tight – four points covering the top five riders at the halfway point – that come November’s Portimao season finale, Fabio Quartararo may…
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Mat Oxley: "From lap one it was like another world. MotoGP bikes are insane!"
Britain’s old colonies have always punched above their weight in motorcycle grand prix racing, largely because bikers in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and elsewhere had nothing to read except…
MotoGP
Why Ducati needs Bagnaia
If Ducati doesn’t announce Pecco Bagnaia’s promotion to its factory team at Barcelona this weekend I promise to shin up the Sagrada Família naked. Ducati needs Bagnaia because he is…
MotoGP
The mystery of Maverick: why is he so up and down?
Maverick Viñales did what everyone knew he could do on Sunday: fight for victory and – following Pecco Bagnaia’s exit – win the race. During his three and a half…
MotoGP
Joan Mir: MotoGP’s Jekyll and Hyde
The 2020 MotoGP world championship is the year of the new kid on the block, with three first-time winners so far and a title challenger who only scored his first…
MotoGP
Why pit-to-rider radios are coming to MotoGP
San Marino GP insight part 3: Riders give warm reception to MotoGP radios, why Christmas is coming early for Quartararo, why KTM went from hero to zero at Misano and why Viñales’ brakes failed at Red Bull Ring
MotoGP
Who will win the 2020 MotoGP title: Ducati or Yamaha? Or Suzuki?
The battle for the 2020 MotoGP world championship reaches half-distance at Misano next Sunday. So far it’s been the strangest of championships in the strangest of years: five different winners…
MotoGP
‘Big uncle Valentino’ and his fountain of youth
VR46 Academy riders took first and second in Sunday’s MotoGP and Moto2 races, largely thanks to the efforts of big uncle Rossi: San Marino GP insight, part 2
MotoGP
How Yamaha and Suzuki made some history at Misano
Yamaha and Suzuki made a little bit of history at Misano. For the first time in more than 70 grands prix, inline-four MotoGP bikes totally dominated a race, taking five…
MotoGP
Why MotoGP records don’t get smashed any more
Michelin is in its fifth season as MotoGP’s sole tyre supplier and yet only holds just over half the comparable race records. The rest belong to Bridgestone, which supplied the…
Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame 2020: Motorcycling nominees
Vote Vote now Les Graham 500cc world champion 1949 Like many racers of his generation, Graham had his career interrupted by the Second World War, during which he flew RAF…
MotoGP
MotoGP is cage-fighting on gasoline
“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death,” said legendary Liverpool football manager Bill Shankly many years ago. “I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can…