The first-ever world championship race took place on 13th June 1949. Four days later the first premier-class race was won by a rider who wasn’t allowed to fight in World War Two because his eyesight was so bad. Different times…
Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, an appropriate time to remember what WW2 airbases have done for British motorcycle racing – since 1945 more than seventy have hosted bike races
MotoGP has never been harder fought than it is now. A decade of rewriting the rules, levelling up the grid and getting rid of any stragglers has seen to that.…
Pecco Bagnaia’s third consecutive Mugello MotoGP victory was a masterpiece: his jaw-droppingly brave first two corners and his mind-bendingly metronomic pace over the entire 23 laps were awesome to behold.…
Bigger risks, bigger pressure, bigger calendar – no wonder Aleix Espargaró says the day he announced his MotoGP retirement last week as one of the best of his life
How do you find grip at MotoGP’s greasiest racetrack? Is there a magic trick? Do the bikes have a special no-grip button? And is it the job of the engineers or the riders to find grip?
Former MotoGP king Fabio Quartararo talks leg dangle, Yamaha’s fightback, where the YZR-M1 needs to improve, how he keeps smiling and why he thinks Marc Márquez is MotoGP’s most impressive rider
Jorge Martin and Marc Márquez thrilled us at Le Mans, leaving us to wonder what they’ll do next in their fight for the title and the most desired race bike on the planet. And how come MotoGP has served up cliffhangers every weekend since Liberty Media announced its takeover of the championship?
MotoGP’s biggest tech rules shakeup since 2002 has been announced: ride-height and holeshot devices are banned, engine performance and downforce aero are reduced. Lap times will be up to three seconds slower, which will have a knock-on effect for World Superbike rules
Jerez test analysis: Yamaha’s Dallara aero, Márquez’s frying brakes, Honda’s underwhelming redesign, another stripped GP24 and – oh no! – more pit-lane chat about chatter
Marc Márquez had his best MotoGP weekend ever with Ducati – pole position and an enthralling by-any-means-necessary duel with winner Bagnaia
Galileo studied the movement of planets at Padua University. 300 years later, it taught Ducati MotoGP chief engineer Gigi Dall'Igna a more terrestrial form of motion. Why is northern Italy — once home to Renaissance revolutionaries — now such a powerhouse of automotive knowledge?
It’s the oldest story in MotoGP: BMW is coming! MotoGP has been wooing the German manufacturer for at least two decades, because having a premium global brand like Bayerische Motoren…
Pedro Acosta lit up MotoGP once again on Sunday in the 2024 US GP, narrowly missing victory, which went to Viñales and Aprilia. Meanwhile Ducati once again struggled with the dreaded chatter
Ducati has a serious chatter problem and MotoGP championship leader Jorge Martin can’t understand why other manufacturers aren’t struggling with the same phenomenon. Plus, what does chatter do and what causes it?
Sport is all about rivalry, so what happens if all the competitors in your favourite motor sport championship are now friends with each other? A few years ago MotoGP endured…
