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What we'd like to see in 2025: predictions for F1, MotoGP and more
2025 dawns with the potential to be a vintage year of racing. Our contributors offer the predictions that they would most like to see this season
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MotoGP
How Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha were forged by WW2
The Japanese manufacturers are having a horrible time in MotoGP, perhaps their toughest since they evolved from manufacturing weaponry for the Japanese military in World War Two
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MotoGP: The best of Mat Oxley from 2024
After a season-long MotoGP championship battle, and plenty more going on behind the scenes, here are the highlights from Mat Oxley in 2024
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MotoGP reality check: Martin won the title because he rode better, not because Bagnaia crashed too much
It’s an accepted truth that Bagnaia lost the championship through his frequent falls, but deeper analysis of his and Martin’s results prove otherwise
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Mat Oxley: MotoGP’s most spectacular rider is new champ Jorge Martin
Jorge Martin’s 2024 MotoGP title success was historic – the young Spaniard is only the sixth rider in 76 years of world-championship racing to win the crown for an independent…
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How to win in MotoGP: ‘The whole game is to make the tyres work – all the other stuff doesn’t matter’
Many believe that Ducati dominates MotoGP thanks to gadgets like mass dampers, ride-height adjusters and downforce aero, but its biggest advantage may be its in-depth tyre analysis, assisted by MegaRide’s latest gizmo
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Yamaha’s MotoGP plans: ‘With an inline-four you need to make aero compromises’
Part two of our chat with Yamaha’s ex-Ducati, ex-Ferrari F1 tech boss Max Bartolini, who tells why MotoGP’s current tyres and new rules made a V4 inevitable and why it’s so difficult to catch Ducati
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Yamaha’s tech director reveals radical plans to win again in MotoGP
No one in MotoGP has more work to do right now than Yamaha, which is developing an all-new V4-powered motorcycle, while continuing development of its inline-four YZR-M1, because it’s not…
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‘King’ Kenny: MotoGP’s original and best independent-team champion
“I never really considered myself a road racer, I just did road racing to get Grand National points in the States.” So says one of the greatest motorcycle road racers…
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Is BMW about to enter MotoGP?
BMW has never tried to win the MotoGP world championship. The German manufacturer made a vague attempt in the 1950s, with a 500cc boxer-twin four-stroke, which took second place in…
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Márquez in stealth mode as new MotoGP era begins
Something remarkable happened during yesterday’s first pre-2025 MotoGP tests at Barcelona. It wasn’t Gresini Ducati’s Alex Márquez going top, nor was it his older brother Marc’s first outing on a…
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Harley baggers in MotoGP? So wrong, it’s right!
Dorna and Harley announced a MotoGP collaboration on Monday, but collaboration for what? It’s not quite certain. So what’s going on?
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MotoGP king Martin: From Turn 1 at Jarama to the chequered flag at Barcelona
How Martin mixed devastating speed with numerous second-place finishes to win a season-long tussle with reigning MotoGP champion Pecco Bagnaia
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MotoGP title-fight, final round: it’s Superman versus Hulk!
Anything can happen in motorcycle racing and usually does, so nothing is for certain when Bagnaia and Martin line up at Barcelona this weekend. And how did they get here? Here’s your blow-by-blow account of the 2024 championship, during which they’ve swapped the points lead five times!
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December track debut for Yamaha's V4 MotoGP bike ‘would be wonderful’
Yamaha’s all-new V4 MotoGP bike could have its rollout test next month. The 1000cc machine is expected to turn its first high-speed laps at Sepang, Malaysia, most likely by former…
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2024 Sepang MotoGP: all Martin had to do was stay out of trouble. And yet….
The Malaysian GP was full of drama. Bagnaia crashed out of the sprint, which left MotoGP points-leader Martin sitting pretty for the main race, but he still risked it all in an epic duel with the reigning champion
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Another reason Ducati is all-powerful – it’s solving MotoGP’s biggest riddle
How Ducati uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to solve MotoGP’s greatest riddle: the exact interaction of man and machine on the racetrack