MotoGP rider stories, race weekend guides and paddock news for fans who follow the season from grandstand or timing screen.
110 posts · updated April 4, 2023
Valentino Rossi displayed a model of a helmet that is now the largest in the world, shattering the Guinness record. Near Rossi's hometown in Italy's Pesaro is where the enormous helmet is located. The helmet, which is four metres high…
Sylvain Guintoli, a Suzuki MotoGP test racer, has indicated that negotiations to rejoin WorldSBK and to stay in the Endurance World Championship are ongoing. At the completion of this season, Guintoli's employment with Suzuki will expire. He last competed in…
In spite of a difficult debut season, Darryn Binder of RNF Racing thinks that "often people forget" how significant the jump from Moto3 directly to MotoGP is. With his signing by RNF to race a year-old Yamaha, the South African—the…
Despite a challenging 2022 MotoGP season, Yamaha CEO Massimo Meregalli claims the Japanese manufacturer "would never give up on" putting Franco Morbidelli back to his race-winning speed from 2020. On his Petronas SRT-driven 2019-spec M1, Morbidelli was Yamaha's top racer…
Alex Rins, a departing Suzuki racer, has formally agreed to a two-year contract with Honda to enter the LCR team in the MotoGP starting in 2023. When Suzuki revealed after the Spanish Grand Prix that it will stop competing in…
The mental burden of being a title challenger caused Aleix Espargaro of Aprilia to confess that he was "extremely fatigued" after the first part of the 2022 MotoGP season. After winning his first MotoGP race in April in Argentina, Espargaro's…
After negotiating on a two-year contract with the Japanese manufacturer to compete for LCR, Alex Rins will enter Honda in MotoGP for the upcoming season. The stunning choice by Suzuki to leave MotoGP at the conclusion of the 2022 season placed…
Alvaro Bautista, who is now leading the World Superbike title, confesses that he comprehends MotoGP "less and less" and believes that the racer is no longer what separates one championship from another. With the trio winning all 15 races so…
The assumption that some courses are especially suitable for the Ducati MotoGP bike than others, according to Jack Miller, is now a thing of the past. Due to the Desmosedici's understeer issues in the past, the Ducati often underperformed at…
Fabio Quartararo, the defending MotoGP title holder, has slammed the idea of holding qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix when it did because the "conditions were extremely dangerous." Qualifying took place on Saturday afternoon in the precipitation, with stewards waving…
