The 2013 Moto3 world champion is a nine-time race winner in MotoGP, but has endured a wildly inconsistent career since switching from Suzuki to Yamaha in 2017. Though taking eight of his nine wins with Yamaha between 2017 and 2021, Vinales never came close to challenging for the title and his relationship with the marque […]
Bastianini kicked off his sophomore MotoGP campaign and his first with the Gresini squad with a stunning maiden win in the premier class on his 2021-spec Ducati. PLUS: Why MotoGP’s newest winner can be a menace in the coming races The 2020 Moto2 world champion made waves in his rookie season last year with the […]
The reigning constructors’ world champions endured a complicated weekend at the Qatar Grand Prix, which began with the announcement that it would be switching to a hybrid 2021/2022-spec engine for Bagnaia and factory team-mate Jack Miller. This followed a winter testing phase in which the new 2022 Ducati engine proved to have an aggressive […]
Miller’s current contract with Ducati expires at the end of this season, while team-mate Francesco Bagnaia has already agreed a new deal through to the end of 2024. With Qatar Grand Prix winner Enea Bastianini and 2021’s top rookie Jorge Martin in the frame for a factory team promotion in 2023, Miller already faced questions […]
The RC16 is the newest bike on the MotoGP grid, with KTM making its debut in 2017. In the space of five years, KTM went from the back of the grid to winning races by 2020, with the marque’s tally standing at five victories following two success for Miguel Oliveira and Brad Binder last season. […]
The 15-time MotoGP race winner makes his full-time return in 2022 having spent much of last year serving a sabbatical after losing his Ducati ride, only contesting the final five races for RNF in its previous guise as Petronas SRT. The 2022 MotoGP season – the longest in history at 21 races – begins this […]
Ukraine has been under invasion from Russia since 24 February in a war that has been widely condemned by Western nations. While world leaders have imposed sanctions on Russia and numerous nations have offered Ukraine support in its efforts to repel the Russian invaders, sporting bodies across the globe have also reacted to the conflict. […]
On Thursday evening ahead of the 2022 season beginning with the Qatar Grand Prix, Autosport reported that Bagnaia and factory Ducati team-mate Jack Miller had gone to a 2021-spec engine. In testing in Malaysia Ducati brought three different specification of engine for Bagnaia to test: a 2021, a 2021 evolution and the 2022 version. With […]
Aprilia has shown good form all winter with its new RS-GP, with a number of riders – including reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo – praising the performance of the Italian marque’s bike. And across the Qatar weekend, Espargaro was strong throughout, qualifying fifth and getting stuck into the podium battle. Though he ultimately came up […]
Unlike in previous years, there was no testing held on the Losail International Circuit ahead of this weekend’s season-opener. And with FP1 being held in daylight, FP1 was largely an exercise in track cleaning – though lap times were fairly solid for the conditions. There was early drama for RNF Racing rookie Darryn Binder – […]