Jorge Lorenzo will fight for the 2018 MotoGP title with Ducati, believes the series’ commercial chief Carmelo Ezpeleta. Having spent his entire MotoGP career up this year with Yamaha, Lorenzo has struggled to adapt to a new bike since joining Ducati. His best results are third places at Jerez and Aragon, and he is currently

Marc VDS Honda MotoGP rider Jack Miller will miss next weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi after breaking his leg in a training incident. Miller sustained a fractured right tibia when he put his foot down to prevent what a Marc VDS statement described as “a slow speed front-end crash” while riding a trials bike

Dani Pedrosa admits he has some “curiosity” for a potential future move outside of the works Honda MotoGP team. Pedrosa has been a factory Honda rider ever since he graduated to the premier class as a double 250cc champion in 2006. He was linked to a possible Yamaha switch last year before it picked Maverick

MotoGP riders have given a positive response to Barcelona’s plan to reinstate the corner where Luis Salom was killed on the circuit layout for 2018 and beyond. Moto2 rider Salom’s death in a practice crash during the 2016 Catalan Grand Prix weekend resulted in MotoGP switching to the Formula 1 layout for that year’s race,

KTM has given test rider Mika Kallio an extra race opportunity in the MotoGP season finale at Valencia. The 34-year-old Finn said after his third appearance of 2017 at Aragon last weekend that he doubted he would get another race chance before next season. The decision to field Kallio again after all puts additional pressure

Suzuki’s 2017 MotoGP season has been hampered by Andrea Iannone choosing the wrong specification of engine to be homologated in winter testing last year, Autosport has learned. After winning its first race since 2007 at Silverstone with Maverick Vinales last season, Suzuki has endured a difficult ’17 season, with new riders Iannone and Alex Rins

Ducati is adamant it can still beat Marc Marquez and Honda to the 2017 MotoGP championship with Andrea Dovizioso because Marquez takes so many risks. As Marquez won in Spain, Dovizioso – who had previously been level on points with him – trailed home seventh and fell 16 points adrift. But Ducati’s sporting general manager

KTM test rider Mika Kallio says he expects his third MotoGP race appearance of the year at Aragon to be his final one of 2017, despite his strong performance. Off the back of a strong ride to 10th in Austria in August, Kallio was offered an extra wildcard outing aboard the RC16 for last weekend’s

Marc Marquez took a “big step” towards the 2017 MotoGP title with victory at Aragon, according to Valentino Rossi. Marquez’s fifth win of the season has given him a lead of 16 points in the championship over Andrea Dovizioso, with whom he was tied prior to the weekend. The Honda rider has won four of

Jorge Lorenzo feels his first MotoGP victory with Ducati is “very close”, following a strong run to third place in the Aragon Grand Prix. Lorenzo won 44 races in his nine-year premier-class stint with Yamaha but he is yet to stand on the top step of the podium since joining Ducati for 2017. His first

Maverick Vinales fears catching Honda’s Marc Marquez to win this year’s MotoGP title will be “impossible” with Yamaha’s current level of competitiveness. Vinales scored a second-straight pole position at Aragon, but his championship hopes were dented in the race as he finished fourth while Marquez collected his fifth win of the season. Yamaha rider Vinales

Valentino Rossi’s rivals praised the injured Italian’s “incredible” performance in MotoGP’s Aragon Grand Prix after he finished the race fifth. Rossi broke his leg in a training accident at the end of last month but, after missing his home round at Misano, returned to MotoGP action just 22 days after his accident when he took

Valentino Rossi has shrugged off Dani Pedrosa’s complaints over his defending in the Aragon MotoGP race. Second-place finisher Pedrosa said Rossi had been “unfair” in squeezing him to the left side of the track as they battled on the back straight. “You can go to the left but to go to the line, and make

MotoGP points leader Marc Marquez says he was “fighting against the bike” for the whole Aragon race, despite the Honda rider emerging victorious. The Spaniard failed to get pole position at his home track for the first time in his MotoGP career, due to him crashing in Q2. However, he was in the lead group

Dani Pedrosa has spoken out against the way Valentino Rossi defended his position during the Aragon MotoGP race, claiming he was nearly forced off-track at almost 190mph. Pedrosa was attacking Rossi for fourth place on lap 15 and managed to get ahead of the Italian on the main straight. However, he had to narrowly squeeze

Marc Marquez recovered from a crash in qualifying to take an imperious win in the Aragon Grand Prix, retaking sole ownership of the MotoGP points lead in the process. From fifth on the grid, Marquez suffered a slow start but profited from poleman Maverick Vinales running wide at the end of the first lap to

Bradley Smith says his KTM crew chief gave him a “clip round the ear” for his Aragon MotoGP qualifying performance, and knows he cannot afford a repeat in the race. The Briton, who is under pressure to lift his game in order to keep his ride safe, could only manage 13th in Q1 at the

A revised schedule for MotoGP’s Aragon Grand Prix has been issued due to thick fog that prevented the morning warm-up session from starting on time. Moto3 warm-up started after an initial 10-minute delay at around 0850 local time, but was red-flagged after just few a minutes of running due to the poor visibility. Track action

Valentino Rossi’s relationship with Maverick Vinales is “completely different” to his fractious partnership with Jorge Lorenzo, says Yamaha team boss Lin Jarvis. Vinales replaced Lorenzo alongside Rossi at the factory Yamaha squad at the start of this season, immediately proving to be on the pace during winter testing and the early rounds. But, despite his

Marc Marquez says he cannot understand why MotoGP fans “cheer” when he crashed at the Misano round, and admitted it left him feeling “sad”. Honda rider Marquez won the San Marino Grand Prix with a last-lap pass on Pramac Ducati rider Danilo Petrucci, and was booed by the partisan crowd on the podium. The reigning

Jorge Lorenzo says he crashed out of the lead of MotoGP’s San Marino Grand Prix as a result of losing concentration while trying to change an electronic map. Ducati rider Lorenzo dominated the early stages of the Misano race, quickly pulling away from the field after making a lightning getaway from fifth on the grid.

Danilo Petrucci says he considered giving up a place to fellow Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso on the final lap of the Misano MotoGP race – but felt that would be a “bad image” for the series. Petrucci, who rides a factory-spec Ducati GP17 bike for Pramac, led most of the Misano event in wet conditions,

Johann Zarco says pushing his Tech3 Yamaha bike over the finish line in the MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix at Misano to claim the final point was “better than nothing”. The Frenchman had been course to claim seventh place before his year-old Yamaha ran out of fuel on the final tour of the 28-lap race.

Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales reckons a “really important” adjustment to his riding style helped him to go fastest in qualifying for the MotoGP race at Misano. Vinales, who put an end to his recent poor form by taking a close second place at Silverstone on Yamaha’s newly-introduced 2018 prototype bike, continued his resurgence by taking pole

Andrea Dovizioso says his strong performance in MotoGP’s San Marino Grand Prix qualifying is “confirmation” that he made the right decision to stick with the old Ducati fairing. Team-mate Jorge Lorenzo has been using Ducati’s new-spec aerodynamic fairing since Friday practice at the Czech Grand Prix at Brno – and had previously said he believed

Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales took pole for MotoGP’s San Marino Grand Prix after topping an intense final qualifying session at Misano in which Marc Marquez crashed. Marquez had been the man to beat for much of the Misano weekend so far, and while he had to abort his first two hot laps in Q2, the

Maverick Vinales says the new ‘2018 prototype’ chassis introduced by his Yamaha MotoGP team allows him to feel more “relaxed” on the bike, in addition to improving rear tyre drop-off. Yamaha, plagued by inconsistent form this season, trialled the prototype in a private test at Misano in late August – and it is understood both

Valentino Rossi has started light physiotherapy on his broken leg as he bids to return to MotoGP action as soon as possible. The Italian will miss at least the next two races at Misano and Aragon, and it is not yet clear if he will be fit enough to return at the following race at

MotoGP championship leader Andrea Dovizioso has praised title rival Marc Marquez for his ability to “play with the limit” on a bike. Marquez led the standings heading into the recent British Grand Prix, but he fell back behind race winner Dovizioso due to retiring with engine failure. The Honda rider was spectacular through practice and

LCR Honda MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow has sustained a finger injury but expects to be fit for this weekend’s San Marino Grand Prix at Misano. An LCR statement said Crutchlow sliced the index finger on his left hand with a knife during an accident at his training base in Italy on Sunday. He sought medical