Nine-time motorcycle grand prix world champion Rossi’s squad will step up to MotoGP for 2022, a move first announced earlier this year with a Saudi company known as Tanal Entertainment confirming the team and a supposed title backing from Aramco. But, in a statement issued to Autosport, Aramco denied any involvement or agreed a deal […]
In a move to improve safety in motorsport, most circuits have had grass, gravel and astro-turf track edges replaced by asphalt run-off over the last decade or so. In 2021 MotoGP deployed sensors in green painted run-off areas beyond circuit kerbs to police track limits, while riders in races are only allowed to exceed track […]
Bagnaia won four races in 2021 and finished runner-up in the standings to Fabio Quartararo, missing the championship by 26 points, in a breakout campaign for the factory Ducati rider. The Italian got the first win of his MotoGP career at the Aragon Grand Prix last September when he battled hard with six-time world champion […]
Ducati rider Bagnaia won four races in 2021 on his way to second in the standings, having proved to be world champion Fabio Quartararo’s main rival in the title battle. Though the championship tussle between the pair never got to a heated stage as Quartararo secured the crown with two races to spare, both riders […]
MotoGP has enjoyed a boom of fast young talents coming up to the premier class in recent years, with the likes of 2021 world champion Fabio Quartararo and 2020 champion Joan Mir, and multiple race winners in Francesco Bagnaia, Brad Binder, Jorge Martin and Miguel Oliveira to name but a few. In 2021, Pramac’s Martin […]
Six-time MotoGP world champion Marquez has been out of action since suffering vision problems following a concussion suffered in a training crash ahead of the Portuguese Grand Prix in November. The 28-year-old missed the final two races and post-season test after he was diagnosed suffering from double vision – diplopia – in one of his […]
Petrucci’s 10-year career in MotoGP is a true rags to riches story, the Italian starting out on the underfunded and woefully off-the-pace Ioda CRT machine in 2012 before eventually getting a factory seat at Ducati in 2019. The Italian won two races in 2019 and 2020 for Ducati before an unfruitful switch to Tech3 KTM […]
Stoner retired from MotoGP at the end of the 2012 season having won two world titles: one for Ducati in 2007 and one for Honda in 2011. Following the conclusion of his MotoGP racing career, Stoner held test rider roles with Honda and Ducati up to 2018, while also briefly racing in the Super2 class […]
Vinales joined Yamaha back in 2017 having spent his first two years in MotoGP with Suzuki, but struggled with inconsistent form for the duration of his stay with the team – winning just eight times between 2017 and 2021. The Spaniard won the opening round of the 2021 campaign in Qatar in convincing fashion, but […]
Quartararo became Yamaha’s first world champion since Jorge Lorenzo in 2015 when he stormed to France’s maiden premier class title with two rounds to spare in 2021. The Frenchman won five races across the 2021 campaign, his first with the factory Yamaha squad having been signed to replace MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi. Not only popular […]