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In 1984 Stuart Shenton had been with Honda for 18 months when HRC engineer (and later HRC president) Satoru Horiike wandered up and asked a question. “He said, if Honda…

Andrea Dovizioso is expected to be fit for the beginning of the MotoGP season following a motorcross crash on the weekend and subsequent surgery. Ducati confirmed that Dovizioso underwent an…

Britain ruled the world of motorcycling for much of the 20th century. AJS, BSA, Matchless, New Imperial, Panther, Royal Enfield, Sunbeam, Triumph, Velocette, Vincent-HRD and many other British marques were…

Stuart Shenton’s first experiences as a teenage factory race mechanic quickly taught him that racing isn’t all about spinning spanners and twisting throttles. In 1975, Kawasaki unleashed its water-cooled KR750…

Ducati’s promotion of Jack Miller to its factory MotoGP team for 2021 should take the brand another step closer to challenging the dominance of Marc Márquez and Honda. Miller is…

Last year’s MotoGP season counted 19 races over 37 weekends – the new 2020 calendar starts with 13 races over 18 weekends. How will riders and teams cope?

The revised 2020 MotoGP calendar features 13 European races - mostly in Spain, with the possibility of an extra four flyaway grands prix

MotoGP esport is better than no racing at all, but it seems like some fans might be confusing the two

The little Italian, Carlo Ubbiali, who dominated the first decade of GP racing in the 125 and 250 classes, has died at the age of 90

Silverstone managing director explains why F1 but no MotoGP. Also, how Britain’s biggest racetrack is surviving Covid-19 and the latest plans for MotoGP 2020

The most important bit: Bray Hill “Down Bray Hill you’re hanging on for your life” McGuinness reckons that TTs can be won or lost in the mega-fast, off-the-edge-of-a-cliff plunge down…

Formula 1 will not race until June at the earliest, with disruption to the Moto GP, Formula E, WEC and NASCAR calendars too. Here's how motor sport has been hit by coronavirus restrictions

Ducati Corse has announced that Jack Miller will join the official Ducati team from the 2021 MotoGP season. Miller will make the jump from the Pramac Ducati team after rumours…

The MotoGP rumour mill usually does its work in the darker corners of the paddock, where journalists, rider managers and team managers arrange secret assignations under cover of team artics,…

Racing is not a democratic exercise. It’s about finding an advantage over your rivals by just about any means necessary, so it is pretty much the exact opposite of egalitarianism.…

Dodgy two-stroke technology and a nauseatingly callous racing establishment were the causes of Monza 1973 – a fiery multiple pile-up that claimed the lives of two of the sport’s biggest stars and changed the course of racing

V4 MotoGP bikes make more power, inline-fours handle better. That’s why Johann Zarco, Jorge Lorenzo and others struggle when they switch from inline-fours to V4s