Crutchlow will take part in the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, the British GP at Silverstone and the San Marino GP at Misano around his testing duties. As part of the new concession rules for 2024, Yamaha is permitted to field six...
Two weeks on from a double disaster for Gresini Ducati at the Americas GP when both Alex and Marc Marquez suffered crashes, the brothers led the 45-minute FP1 at Jerez on Friday morning. Eight-time world champion Marc Marquez led for...
Acosta has been the hottest prospect in the grand prix paddock from the off in Moto3 in 2021 and has already stunned in his first three rounds in the premier class. Securing a maiden grand prix podium with third at the Portuguese GP...
The 19-year-old reigning Moto2 champion's debut in MotoGP was highly anticipated over the winter, and it has so far lived up to expectations. Ninth in the Qatar opener after an early charge through the field gave way to a maiden podium...
The Japanese marque has been without a customer outfit since the end of the 2022 season, when the former RNF squad elected to sign a multi-year deal with Aprilia. In recent years, the importance of strong satellite structures has become...
The retired 31-time MotoGP race winner stepped away from full-time racing at the end of 2018 but has made sporadic wildcard outings since joining KTM as a test rider. Pedrosa raced at the Spanish GP and San Marino GP in 2023, finishing...
The 2023 MotoGP season had six riders enter selected grands prix as a wildcard entry, which is a concept that has a long History in the series. It dates back to the early years of grand prix motorcycling, when teams would enter a local...
The Iwata-based manufacturer has pulled out all stops to convince Quartararo that he won't be better off at a rival outfit, having managed to renew its contract with the French rider in a move that caught half the paddock by surprise. Although...
Fernandez was the only rider within the Aprilia contingent to start the season with last year’s bike, with team-mate Miguel Oliveira getting the latest-spec machinery in 2024 following the takeover of RNF Racing by American outfit...
The 2016 F1 season had started with Daniil Kvyat and Daniel Ricciardo driving for the main Red Bull team, with Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz, both directly contracted to the energy drinks giant, occupying the two seats at Toro Rosso. But...
The start to the 2024 MotoGP season has not been easy for Yamaha having scored just 19 points in the opening three rounds, with a best of eighth for Fabio Quartararo in the Portuguese Grand Prix. Despite this, Yamaha has...
Ahead of the fourth event of the season at Jerez this weekend, Acosta is fourth in the standings, just two points behind third-placed Maverick Vinales and five points behind second-placed Enea Bastianini. The Spaniard is the best-placed of...
Honda’s downturn in performance has continued into the new campaign, with the RC213V still lagging behind rivals despite the work that went into upgrading the bike over the winter. The Japanese manufacturer returned empty-handed...
The 34-year-old has been racing full-time in MotoGP since 2012 and has been with Aprilia since 2017, developing the RS-GP into a race-winning package in that time. His current contract with the Italian marque expires at the end of...
Oliveira was speaking of his experiences at Trackhouse Racing’s NASCAR facility in Concord, North Carolina, prior to last weekend’s Americas Grand Prix. Admitting he knew very little about NASCAR prior to his visit, he says he...
The Japanese manufacturer has made an abysmal start to the new campaign on its radically overhauled RC213V package. Scoring just eight points out of a possible 111 from the opening three rounds, no Honda rider has cracked the top 10...
The bikes’ 1000cc engines produce 270hp but their tiny contact patches and lack of downforce relative to cars costs them dearly in lap time when compared to a Formula 1 machine. For example, Valtteri Bottas lapped his 2019 F1 Mercedes...
Earlier this month it was announced that Liberty Media, the American entertainment company which also owns F1, acquired an 86% stake in Dorna Sports, valuing the MotoGP, WorldSBK and MotoE promoter at €4.2 billion. It revived the...
Earlier this month, Quartararo inked a fresh multi-year deal with Yamaha, keeping him with the Iwata-based manufacturer until at least the end of the 2026 season. The new contract was agreed despite an underwhelming start to the new...
Bastianini is in the final year of his two-season contract with the factory Ducati squad and was spared demotion for 2024 by Pramac’s Jorge Martin not winning the title in 2023. Four times a grand prix winner in 2022 on the...
After 26 seasons at the helm of Yamaha, Britain's Lin Jarvis revealed last weekend in an interview with Motorsport.com that 2024 will be his final year as the brand's most senior executive. Before closing this chapter, Jarvis managed...