KTM looks like being Ducati’s closest challenger in the 2024 MotoGP championship, thanks to copying the Italians while at the same time trying a brave new technology. The team's project leader Sebastian Risse answers our questions…
Aprilia chief engineer Romano Albesiano shares his thoughts on MotoGP’s controversial tyre-pressure rule, how the RS-GP keeps improving, why it’s so difficult to beat Ducati and how he started working on downforce aero in the 1990s
Garry Taylor, whose death was announced today, led Suzuki's MotoGP team through a riotous era, earning championship success with Kenny Roberts Jr and "team manager's dream" Kevin Schwantz. He recalled the glory days in an interview last year
How times change. A decade ago MotoGP introduced new technical regulations to help the manufacturers that were struggling to keep the dominant Japanese makers – Honda and Yamaha – in…
People expected it to take a year – in fact Valentino Rossi fixed most of the Yamaha YZR-M1’s problems in his first hours on the bike on January 24, 2004
'The Go Show' was more talented than Schwantz and Spencer and a “genuinely nice kid” but he was unable to defeat his addictions
With all of MotoGP's 2024 rider line-ups now confirmed, read through the full run-down of the contracts in place
By the end of this season Triumph’s Moto2 engines will have covered close to a million miles, with the 2024 765 engine using 40% ‘sustainable’ fuel, which could be the start of an alternative to EV power
Pol Espargaró has raced in MotoGP for ten years, always using his spectacular, maximum-risk riding style, so why does he ride like that, how does he use kerbs for traction control and how has downforce aero changed everything for riders?
Recent events have highlighted the fact that MotoGP needs to follow other sporting championships and take a stand for inclusion and against homophobia and other hate crimes
The best of MotoGP reporting in 2023 from Mat Oxley
Dunlop is the only hardware company that has been in GPs since the beginning but now it’s gone, so this is a good time to look back at its greatest season, when Wayne Rainey and Kevin Schwantz duelled for the 1991 500cc world championship
Many MotoGP fans were dubious about Marc Márquez’s switch from factory Honda rider to independent-team Ducati rider for 2024. The six-times MotoGP king hadn’t won the title since 2019, struggling…
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Sat in a dusty cupboard in the bowels of the Royal Automobile Club, leafing through ancient volumes of The Motor Cycle and Motor Cycling, the name jumped right out at…
Yamaha inline-four YZR-M1 seems to be fighting a losing battle against the V4 hordes of Aprilia, Ducati, Honda and KTM. The M1 didn’t win a single race last season, so can it fight back in 2024? Fabio Quartararo’s crew chief Diego Gubellini has a plan…
This is the extraordinary story of Les Graham, the decorated RAF Lancaster pilot who won the inaugural MotoGP world title, was ‘the greatest of all MV Agusta riders’ and lost his life on one of MV’s first MotoGP bikes
