Following a controversial performance last Sunday in the Argentina MotoGP at Termas de Rio Hondo, Marc Marquez heads to the Lone Start state as the dominate rider at Circuit of the Americas. The 25-year-old Repsol Honda pilot is the only premier-class rider to ever win at Austin’s COTA since the track joined the MotoGP calendar […]
Marquez crashed into the Italian racer in Sunday’s Argentina Grand Prix, forcing the Yamaha rider off the track in the second MotoGP race of the season. Rossi was furious with the defending world champion after the race and rejected Marquez’s attempt to apologise. The Spaniard admits he was in the wrong over the collision, but […]
Italy’s Valentino Rossi has accused Marc Marquez of deliberately crashing into riders at the Argentina MotoGP, saying he is “scared” to race with him. Spain’s Marquez finished in 18th after being penalised for clashing with Rossi as he tried to overtake during the race, which was won by Britain’s Cal Crutchlow. Nine-time champion Rossi, who […]
CAL Crutchlow claimed victory in the Grand Prix of Argentina, a race that will go down in MotoGP history as one of the most bizarre and dramatic of all time.QUITE frankly, from start to finish, the MotoGP Grand Prix of Argentina defied belief. Where do you even begin… Let’s start with the podium: Cal Crutchlow […]
Sunday’s MotoGP Grand Prix of Qatar was exactly what the doctor recommended to Dorna, the motorcycle racing series’ managing body. A successful season-opening race is important for many reasons, such as pleasing deprived racing fans who have waited months to see their wheelin’ heroes back in action, but primarily for the business side of MotoGP. […]
Freddie Spencer thoroughly enjoyed Sunday evening’s Qatar Grand Prix, the three-time World Champion revelling in another MotoGP clash of the titans as Andrea Dovizioso and Marc Marquez again took the fight down to the wire. Spencer jettisoned his record of youngest ever premier class title winner when Marquez took MotoGP by storm in 2013, but […]
Dovizioso fended off a charging Marquez to win the MotoGP season-opening race by less than three-hundredths of a second. Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso put on a masterful performance during today’s MotoGP Grand Prix of Qatar, in which his fine-balancing of aggressiveness, patience, and raw skill earned him the top step of the podium at the season’s […]
Marc Marquez heads into the new MotoGP season as the hot favourite to become a five-time champion after dominating the sport since his debut in 2013. The Spaniard has been a revelation over the past five years at Repsol Honda, with only the 2015 campaign seeing him fail to finish top of the pile – […]
The MotoE World Cup has been officially unveiled at a launch event in Rome, with the first details of the series confirmed. The all-electric support series has been mooted by MotoGP owners Dorna Sports for some time, with Italian manufacturer Energica announced towards the end of last year as the sole machine supplier for the […]
Testing continues for the Moto2 and Moto3 riders, this time again at the Jerez circuit in southern Spain. Day one was mostly rained out, a problem that has plagued pre-season testing this year. Thankfully, day two was mostly clear and sunny, and the Moto2 riders managed a full two and a half hours of testing […]
MOTOGP superstar Valentino Rossi has taken a dig at Honda sensation Marc Marquez.Valentino Rossi has taken a swipe at Marc MarquezThe Spaniard is the youngest rider ever to win four titles. He secured glory twice two years consecutively in 2013 and 2014 and managed the same feat in 2016 and 2017. Marquez, 25, also has […]
MotoGP, much like Rock ‘n Roll, have their own Hall of Fame, more specifically known as the MotoGP Legends Hall of Fame, and features such prestigious names as Giacomo Agostini, Mick Doohan, Geoff Duke, Wayne Gardner, Mike Hailwood, Daijiro Kato, Eddie Lawson, Anton Mang, Angel Nieto, Wayne Rainey, Phil Read, Jim Redman, Kenny Roberts, Jarno Saarinen, […]
Brad and Darryn Binder have completed the three day combined Moto2 and Moto3 test at the Jerez Circuit in Spain. After rain and wind on the first day, the next two days saw clear skies with the last day, yesterday, having particularly good conditions in which to test. The pair will return to Jerez for […]
MotoGP has officially announced that seven races on the 2018 calendar will be shortened. This move is part of a two-year transition that is aimed at helping television broadcasters. The aim of reducing race distances is to reduce the variation in race duration between rounds and to play race day scheduling better. In addition, the […]
Despite being a race winner and consistent front runner in the World Supersport Championship, SA’s Sheridan Morais is out of a ride this year. Sadly, this is how the racing world works at present. With sponsorship money being scarce, teams have had to resort to hiring riders who can bring in money into the team […]
The twelfth Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup season sees a return to Mugello for the first time since 2014 and we’ve missed the classic venue and passionate fans. Twenty-five of the world’s fastest teenagers will contest this year’s twelve race series and they come from seventeen nations, from Wales to Australia, from Japan to Colombia. […]
The MotoE World Cup has been officially unveiled at a launch event in Rome, with the first details of the series confirmed. The all-electric support series has been mooted by MotoGP owners Dorna Sports for some time, with Italian manufacturer Energica announced towards the end of last year as the sole machine supplier for the […]
Valentino Rossi’s chief engineer Silvano Galbusera explains what went wrong last year and what needs to go right this MotoGP season Yamaha has a lot of work to do: the factory needs to win back the MotoGP world title and (for the sake of Dorna and millions of fans) build a bike good enough to […]
Rider airbags will become compulsory in 2018 across all classes of the FIM MotoGP championship, which includes the Moto2 and Moto3 series along with the premier MotoGP class. There are two exceptions to the rule, with wildcard riders not having to use the safety system and replacement riders having a two-race exemption. After those two […]
When a sportsman—in particular, a sportsman of the highest level—arrives at a certain age and his results begin to decline, it’s inevitable that people will question if he is too old to continue and would it be better if he quit while he is ahead. But to question Valentino Rossi, the absolute icon of motorcycle […]
Valentino Rossi’s early MotoGP return from a broken leg, at the age of 38, proved the Italian legend has lost none of his passion for racing. That’s the opinion of Davide Brivio, Rossi’s team manager at Yamaha when the Italian suffered his first broken leg in 2010, who also hopes the #46’s level of motivation […]
Jorge Martínez “Aspar” pays tribute to Ángel Nieto by naming team after Spanish legend. Gelete Nieto to join with the Ángel Nieto Team as Team Principal Gelete Nieto returns to the place he called home for several years as he takes over the reins of the newly-named Ángel Nieto Team, an exciting project that covers […]
Ducati team rider Andrea Dovizioso is very excited to welcome MotoGP competition next season. Despite performing well for 2017 season, Dovi aims to be the world champion in 2018. Andrea Dovizioso ended the 2017 MotoGP race with an almost perfect performance. Dovi almost became the world champion but he lost to Marc Marquez in the […]
Movistar Yamaha MotoGP’s Maverick Viñales had the honour to be the first MotoGP rider to enter the revamped Kyalami International Race Track, in South Africa yesterday. The historic track – which last hosted World Superbike in 2010 – has been extensively modified and upgraded by its new owners, after being auctioned off in 2014. Vinales, who […]
Italian company Energica has been chosen by MotoGP owners Dorna Sports to be the supplier of the Moto-e World Cup all-electric support series to be introduced in 2019. Plans for the electric one-make series were confirmed earlier this year, with Dorna aiming for a five-round series of 10-lap races with grids somewhere in the region […]
#46 considers the future: “I’ll try to continue for a while longer. The Yamaha? What we saw in 2017 doesn’t represent our potential” Mission accomplished! Valentino Rossi dreamed of becoming the biggest winner of all time at the Monza Rally Show and he’s managed to become just that, scoring his sixth victory. It was an uphill climb for #46 though, […]
Four-time MotoGP champion Marc Márquez is out of contract at the end of 2018, leaving many wondering where he will go. As the most coveted rider on the MotoGP grid, Márquez could join just about any team he likes—but his manager Emilio Alzamora believes the Respol Honda team, with whom he made his debut in […]
Marc Marquez became the youngest rider in MotoGP history to win four world titles at a dramatic Valencia MotoGP on Sunday.Watched by a crowd of 110,000 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, the race pitted the 24-year-old Repsol Honda rider against Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso. Marquez finished in third place, while Dovizioso retired after crashing into the […]
Casey Stoner believes he would have been able to beat Marc Marquez had he not chosen to retire from MotoGP before the Spaniard stepped up to the top class. Two-time world champion Stoner decided to hang up his helmet at the end of the 2012 season, aged just 27, with Marquez taking his place in […]
Valencia will host the last battle for the title between two riders who are different but also similar, both of whom are deserving of the final win. 30 laps, 420 corners, 120 kilometres and just over 45 minutes to decide the outcome of a fight that began in Qatar and will only end on Sunday at Valencia. Marquez against Dovizioso, […]
Darryn Binder will contest the ’18 Moto3 campaign with Red Bull Ajo KTM as team re-structures to accommodate presence in FIM Junior World Championship. Darryn Binder’s move to Aki Ajo’s Red Bull-backed Moto3 team has finally been confirmed as the team restructures to accommodate a heightened presence in the FIM Junior World Championship for the 2018 […]
Jonathan Rea became the first rider to retain the World Superbikes title three years runningThe Kawasaki rider, who last month became the first man to win the crown three years running, is bidding to beat the record total of 552 points scored in a season by Colin Edwards. The Texan set the target in his […]
Andrea Dovizioso won the Malaysian MotoGP on Sunday to keep his slim world title hopes alive. The Italian’s victory leaves him 21 points behind leader Marc Marquez, who was fourth at the Sepang circuit, with one race to go in Valencia, Spain. “Everything can happen during the weekend – and you never know about the […]
MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez reflected on the importance of his win at Phillip Island last weekend, saying it was crucial for him to increase his lead ahead of this weekend’s race in Malaysia. The Sepang round is the third and final leg of the ‘flyaway’ races before MotoGP returns to Spain for its finale […]
Reigning MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez put one hand on the 2017 title as he won a thriller down under while championship rival Andrea Dovizoso slumped to 13th place in Australia. Marquez was involved in a six-man battle for the lead until the closing stages when some hooky passes by Andrea Iannone gave him the […]
“We are in a difficult situation now, especially in the wet. In the dry we have some problems, but we can be a bit more competitive” – Valentino Rossi. Having struggled throughout the wet Japanese MotoGP weekend, culminating in a big highside during the race, Valentino Rossi arrives in Australia hoping more than ever for […]
Closer than ever, the crusade for the crown arrives at one of the most breathtaking venues in the world: Phillip Island. In the aftermath of the duel of the decade at the Twin Ring Motegi between Championship leader Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) and title rival Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) – which the Italian won […]
Valentino Rossi says he was left with “pain everywhere” following a dramatic early crash during Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi. The Yamaha rider was an early retirement in tricky conditions as he suffered a major highside at Turn 7 on the sixth lap while running in ninth place. Rossi had already crashed in Saturday’s […]
Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso stole the MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix from Marc Marquez at Honda’s home circuit on Sunday, cutting the Spanish rider’s championship lead to just 11 points. Dovizioso took the race lead from Marquez for the first time with six laps to go at a wet Motegi Twin Ring, and the Italian rider was […]
MotoGP World Championship leader Marc Marquez says he is ready for the final phase of the season as he bids for a fourth crown. Back-to-back wins at Misano and Aragon have seen Marquez extend his lead in the championship race to 16 points over nearest rival Andrea Dovizioso of Italy. The Spaniard said he is […]