Spanish MotoGP rider Alvaro Bautista has shared his thoughts on the Ducati GP16 he will ride in the 2017 season in an interview published on his Aspar team’s website. Bautista, who returns to the team he won the 2006 125cc World Championship with this year, has been in the premier class since 2010, making his […]
Winter really is a terrible time for motor racing fans. The end of a season brings with it the winter shutdown, and our favourite series go into hibernation for a few months while we’re left longing for it all to end so we can go racing again. Well, mercifully, the long winter break is almost […]
British motorcycle manufacturer Triumph is set to become the Moto2 World Championship’s official engine supplier from the 2019 season, taking over from Honda who currently supply CBR600RR engines to the series. Motorcycle Grand Prix racing’s governing body, the FIM, opened up the tender process for engine suppliers for the intermediate class back in 2015. Honda […]
The Hungaroring, situated in Mogyorod, Hungary, has expressed its interest in bringing the MotoGP World Championship to the country for the 2018 season as part of its plans for a major revamp of the circuit. The Hungarian circuit, the scene of Formula One’s first foray behind the Iron Curtain in 1986, is set to undergo […]
2017 heralds a new chapter for the Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo story, with the latter lining up for Ducati – the team Rossi famously had his biggest career slump with in 2011 and 2012. Much has been made of the Spaniard’s move to the Italian manufacturer, his motives and his prospects, but both riders agree that […]
From 2017, the MotoGP World Championship will implement wireless tyre detection technology in a bid to easily clarify which Michelin slick or wet compound a rider is using at any given time during each session of a race weekend. A widespread complaint this season has been the difficulty in identifying what tyres a rider has […]
Japanese manufacturer Suzuki is looking into the possibility of fielding more GSX-RRs in the MotoGP World Championship with satellite entrants in 2018, this according to Autosport.com. Suzuki returned to MotoGP at the end of 2014 after a three-year hiatus whilst it rebuilt its Grand Prix project following financial strife in 2011. The Hamamatsu-based manufacturer has […]
The Pedercini Kawasaki Racing Team have confirmed that former MotoGP rider and World Superbike podium finisher Alex De Angelis will ride for them in 2017. The rider from San Marino made his WorldSBK debut this season with Ioda Racing, who also entered the series for the first time. De Angelis, a former Grand Prix winner in the […]
The curtain has closed on another breathtaking MotoGP season, possibly the most unpredictable in history. Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez claimed his third premier class crown with three races still to run, but his path to the world championship wasn’t exactly clear cut. A difficult RC213V required a change in approach, whilst the new Michelin tyres […]
The MotoGP World Championship will continue to use the Formula 1 layout of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya following an agreement between both series’ governing bodies, the FIA and FIM. This year saw MotoGP, as well as Moto2 and Moto3, use the alternate Turn 10 and final chicane instead of the original Turn 12 after SAG […]
After an absence of 10 years, Aprilia returned to the premier class last season as a factory entity in collaboration with the Gresini team. A year earlier than planned, 2015 was a difficult slog for the Noale factory. The RS-GP, a modified version of the ART machine, was woefully off the pace and lagged at […]
Ducati’s return to the sharp-end of the MotoGP field has been a long and tedious process. Casey Stoner’s departure at the end of 2010 heralded a barren period for the team, and not even Valentino Rossi and Jeremy Burgess could find success with the difficult Desmosedici. Indeed, it wasn’t until 2014 when Ducati began to […]