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…
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
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…
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…
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…
“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…
Perhaps the gods of the racetrack decided they had done enough for Valentino Rossi after this year’s first race at the Red Bull Ring, where he so narrowly avoided a…
I wasn’t around for the first premier-class GP, which took place on the Isle of Man in June 1949. The winner of that race was bespectacled Londoner Harold Daniell, who…
The French have enjoyed very little success in the premier class of motorcycle racing, which is rather strange, especially because France was the first great motorcycling nation. French riders and…
Last season Brembo judged Red Bull Ring to be one of four MotoGP circuits that placed extreme demands on its brakes, along with Twin Ring Motegi, Sepang and Barcelona. Not…
The last time the reigning MotoGP king got badly hurt was in 1999, when Mick Doohan suffered career-ending injuries at Jerez, coincidentally just metres from where fellow Repsol Honda rider…
Johann Zarco will start from the pitlane for this weekend's Styrian Grand Prix after being penalised for his role in last Sunday's crash with Franco Morbidelli. Stewards found "there was…
A new air fence and safety wall have been installed at Turn Three of the Red Bull Ring ahead of this weekend's MotoGP round — following last Sunday's huge accident.…
The MotoGP paddock has changed beyond all recognition since the global pandemic arrived. What used to be a bustling global village of several thousand riders, engineers and team members and…
Last weekend’s Austrian GP was the perfect illustration of the difficulties that riders of slower, better-handling inline-four MotoGP bikes face when they are fighting with rivals using faster, poorer-handling V4…
Who to blame for Sunday’s horror accident: the riders, the circuit or ourselves? 2020 MotoGP Austrian GP Insight
