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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…

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

Why is Ducati’s Desmosedici so good? How will it be better in 2024? How important are computer simulations in MotoGP? Ducati’s three-times title-winning crew chief tells (nearly) all

Cecil Sandford, the last surviving champion from the first decade of motorcycling’s world championships, passed away on Tuesday, at the age of 95. Sandford was the first rider to win a world title with MV Agusta, which went on to become the biggest racing name through much of the 1960s and 1970s.

MotoGP’s most-awaited bike change in years was the story of Tuesday’s one-day Valencia tests, but conditions weren’t good enough to read too much into the overall results

More than half a century ago the FIM (motorcycling’s FIA) banned women from world championship motorcycle racing. The international governing body was spurred into urgent action by the ambitions of…

Pecco Bagnaia retained his crown in a chaotic Valencia finale that saw plenty of crashes and Di Giannantonio become the first rider to lose a podium due to MotoGP’s controversial tyre-pressure rules

Pecco Bagnaia – who goes to Valencia this week hoping to retain his MotoGP crown – may look smooth and controlled on his Ducati but he does some radical things to find his speed. He talks mad braking, what he expects from the 2024 Desmosedici and why today’s riders will have shorter careers

An epic 2023 championship duel was most likely decided on Sunday night when title contender Jorge Martin got a bad rear tyre. Plus: MotoGP should think about why riders are losing their tempers…

Here comes the final countdown of the 2023 MotoGP title fight – the hunter versus the hunted in Qatar this weekend and at Valencia next weekend – so let’s analyse Bagnaia and Martin from every angle

Bastianini won his first MotoGP race of 2023 and Bagnaia got a tyre warning, so he’s now even with title rival Martin going into the last two rounds, but riders are crying out for changes to the ‘ridiculous’ tyre-pressure rule

Jorge Martin goes into the final three MotoGP grands prix with one hand tied behind his back, due to a new rule that requires teams to see into the future and guess how each rider’s race will unfold

An amazing new photo book examines the wild, early days of American superbike racing, which eventually led to the MotoGP championship