KTM and its satellite squad Tech3 have unveiled the colours their RC16s will sport during the 2020 MotoGP season. The liveries were revealed in a digital launch event on Tuesday. While the works team will run an unchanged scheme in 2020, Tech3’s livery (pictured below) has been revised, with silver more prominent on the fairing

Maverick Vinales says it was “not easy” to commit to another early MotoGP contract renewal with Yamaha, as he had an “open mind” about going elsewhere. The 2013 Moto3 champion has long harboured championship ambitions in the top class, having won three of his first five races with Yamaha after joining from Suzuki in 2017,

Double MotoGP race winner Alex Rins says Suzuki is “where I wanted to be” with its new bike after the first pre-season test of 2020 in Malaysia. Rins ended the Sepang test third overall with a lap just 0.101 seconds off the pace, while team-mate Joan Mir was a further 0.382s adrift in 11th on

Petronas SRT MotoGP rider Fabio Quartararo does not believe he is ready to fight for the world championship in 2020. Quartararo managed seven podiums on an slightly detuned ‘B-spec’ Yamaha in 2019, which included two near-misses in victory battles with Marc Marquez at Misano and in Thailand, and ended up as comfortably the best rookie

MotoGP rider Pol Espargaro says the step forward KTM has made with the 2020 RC16 bike is “bigger than what I imagined, what I expected” after testing at Sepang. Espargaro, who bagged KTM’s sole MotoGP podium so far in a wet Valencia finale in 2018, was firmly within the top 10 on all three days

Suzuki is close to signing both its current MotoGP riders Alex Rins and Joan Mir for the 2021 and ’22 seasons, despite interest in Mir from Ducati, Autosport has learned. Team boss Davide Brivio made it clear that while contracts for 2021 and 2022 have not yet been signed by either rider, despite some speculation

Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo says the chances of him making a full-time return to the series have increased since his Yamaha test debut, but remain low. Lorenzo drew a line under a 12-year premier-class career as he walked away from a two-year Honda contract midway through, announcing his retirement at the end of 2019.

The first three-day pre-season test of the 2020 MotoGP season from the Sepang International Circuit concluded last weekend, with Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo topping the timesheets. For the first time, all six manufacturers – Honda, Ducati, Yamaha, Suzuki, KTM and Aprilia – ran their 2020 prototype bikes on track together, with 2019’s rookie sensation Quartararo

Reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez admits he is “more worried about the bike” than his physical condition ahead of the season following the first test in Malaysia. Marquez suffered a partial shoulder dislocation in a crash at last year’s Malaysian Grand Prix – which he aggravated further in a fall during the Jerez test

Fabio Quartararo says he can still get better on Yamaha’s 2020 MotoGP bike as he is not yet “100% comfortable” with it, despite ending all three Sepang test days fastest. Quartararo was fastest on the opening day of the first pre-season tes on a 2019-specificaion M1, then used the 2020 version to go fastest on

Ducati has “struggled” to maintain the same pace as its main MotoGP rivals during the Sepang test, says works rider Danilo Petrucci. Petrucci led a Ducati top-four lockout in this same test last year, but was only sixth-fastest over the three days of 2020 Sepang running – with the lead Desmosedici of Pramac rider Francesco

Honda boss Alberto Puig says rookie signing Alex Marquez went “better than expected” during the three-day Sepang MotoGP pre-season test. Reigning Moto2 world champion Marquez has joined his elder brother Marc at the factory Honda team in 2020, forming the first all-brother premier class line-up in history. The younger Marquez made his debut on the

Fabio Quartararo completed a clean sweep of the Sepang MotoGP pre-season test after topping the third day, while Marc Marquez crashed again. Quartararo took delivery of Yamaha’s 2020-spec YZR-M1 on Saturday, setting the pace immediately, and used the bike to once more end up fastest on Sunday. The Petronas SRT rider guided the bike to

Marc Marquez says his late crash during Saturday’s second MotoGP test day in Malaysia came after he had strayed off line on his way back to his garage. The reigning world champion is riding below peak physical fitness due to a recent operation on a shoulder injury he picked up at last year’s Malaysian Grand

LCR’s Cal Crutchlow says Honda’s 2020-specification MotoGP bike is “maybe even a little worse than last year” at turning after the second day of testing in Malaysia. Crutchlow, who was the only Honda rider other than world champion Marc Marquez to achieve a podium on the 2019 bike, was one of the most vocal critics

Johann Zarco says the “great things” he could do on the LCR Honda late last season led him to believe he would be quicker on Avintia’s Ducati in MotoGP testing. Zarco contested the final three races of the 2018 season on Takaaki Nakagami’s 2018-spec LRC Honda after losing his ride with KTM following the Misano

Fabio Quartararo led the second day of pre-season MotoGP testing in Malaysia, while reigning world champion Marc Marquez crashed late in the session. Petronas SRT rider Quartararo was fastest on Friday aboard the 2019-spec Yamaha, but finally took delivery of the new 2020 M1 and spent most of the day on that. He was once

Aleix Espargaro says his 2020 Aprilia RS-GP MotoGP bike reminds him of the Open class Forward Yamaha he rode to a podium in 2014 owing to its “unbelievable” smoothness. Aprilia enters 2020 with a completely overhauled machine, which Espargaro has spent the past week testing for the first time at Sepang at the shakedown and

Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez says he felt “worse than expected” returning to his Honda bike after surgery. Marquez, who romped to the 2019 title despite having his preparations for the season compromised by recovery from surgery on his left shoulder, has had his right shoulder operated on in November. Though he is in less

Petronas SRT rider Fabio Quartararo topped the first day of 2020 MotoGP pre-season testing in Malaysia, while his factory Yamaha counterpart Maverick Vinales crashed. Last season’s top rookie Quartararo was the first out on track at Sepang on Friday morning, though it was Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro who set the initial pace in the opening hour.

MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi says he “pushed a lot” for Yamaha to sign his former arch rival Jorge Lorenzo, who he thinks is “perfect” for the team as test rider. Lorenzo, who won three titles during his nine-year stint as a Yamaha MotoGP rider, retired from full-time competition last year after a troubled stint with

The factory Yamaha team has become the latest MotoGP squad to reveal the colours it will race in the 2020 season at its official launch event in Malaysia. Yamaha stole the headlines last week when it firmed up its line up for the two years beyond 2020, with Maverick Vinales staying put, and Fabio Quartararo

The Suzuki MotoGP team has unveiled a new livery for its 2020 campaign ahead of the first pre-season test of the year at the Sepang International Circuit. The 2020 MotoGP season will be Suzuki’s sixth since it returned to grand prix racing in 2015, and enters the campaign with an unchanged line-up of double race

Aprilia MotoGP rider Andrea Iannone’s doping case was heard by the International Disciplinary Court on Tuesday, but no verdict has yet been reached. Iannone tested positive for a steroid during the Sepang weekend of the 2019 MotoGP season, and a provisional suspension was announced the following month, on December 17. Iannone said the finding had

Jorge Lorenzo turned his first laps on a Yamaha MotoGP bike since 2016 on Tuesday as the three-day shakedown session at Sepang came to an end. The three-time MotoGP champion, who was announced as a Yamaha tester last week, recorded 46 laps aboard the 2020-spec M1 bike, setting a best time of 2m05.506s. That left

The Repsol Honda team has unveiled the 2020 livery for its MotoGP bike, which will be campaigned by brothers Marc and Alex Marquez. In a season launch presentation taking place in Indonesian capital Jakarta where title sponsor Repsol is based, the Honda factory team showed off a pair of bikes sporting a largely identical colour

Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali says it is not important for the MotoGP manufacturer to field an all-Italian line-up as the paddock prepares for a frenzied silly season. The majority of factory contracts are up for renewal at the end of this season, including those of Ducati’s all-Italian line-up Andrea Dovizioso and Danilo Petrucci. Speaking at

Fabio Quartararo says Yamaha’s offer of a factory-spec bike in Petronas SRT colours for the 2020 MotoGP season “weighed heavily” on his decision to stay with the marque for 2021. Rookie sensation Quartararo was announced last week as a factory Yamaha rider for 2021 and ’22 alongside Maverick Vinales, replacing team stalwart Valentino Rossi. Before

Aprilia has revealed the first pictures of its 2020 MotoGP challenger ahead of the shakedown test at Sepang beginning on Sunday. The Italian manufacturer returned to MotoGP in 2015, though it wasn’t until the following year that it debuted its first new prototype machine, having run a glorified Superbike under Open class rules in its

Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola has admitted that a long doping ban for Andrea Iannone would likely spell the end of the manufacturer’s relationship with the Italian MotoGP rider. Iannone, 30, was provisionally suspended by motorcycling’s governing body the FIM after a urine sample taken during the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend tested positive for an