Pramac Ducati rider Jack Miller believes the 2019 MotoGP season was his most complete in grand prix racing, even more so than ’14 when he fought for the Moto3 title. Miller won six races for the Ajo KTM team in 2014 but lost the title by just two points to Alex Marquez – who only

Valentino Rossi concedes that it is “better not to renew” his Yamaha MotoGP contract unless his results improve in the early part of 2020. Rossi endured a tough second half of the 2019 season, as he was regularly outpaced by team-mate Maverick Vinales as well as star Petronas Yamaha rookie Fabio Quartararo and ended up

Aleix Espargaro says his “objective” with Aprilia in MotoGP is to replicate what Andrea Dovizioso has achieved at Ducati, as his and the team’s transformation has been “unbelievable”. Dovizioso joined Ducati in 2013, but did not get his first podium for the marque until two years later. However, he has been runner-up in the championship

Yamaha has offered retired triple MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo a test role for 2020, Autosport has learned. Lorenzo retired from racing at the end of the 2019 season following a single, difficult year on the Honda, in which his struggles to adapt to the RC213V and various injuries meant he did not even manage

Aprilia MotoGP rider Andrea Iannone says he was “surprised” to receive a provisional suspension over a potential doping violation, but has “every confidence” he will be cleared of any wrongdoing. Motorcycle racing’s governing body FIM announced on Tuesday that a prohibited substance, falling under the category of anabolic androgenic steroids, was found in Iannone’s urine

Aprilia MotoGP rider Andrea Iannone has been handed a provisional suspension after testing positive for an anabolic steroid. Iannone, the winner of the 2016 Austrian Grand Prix, is in the middle of a two-year works contract with Aprilia. His positive test came from a sample taken at the Malaysian Grand Prix. He has been suspended

MotoGP podium finishers Bradley Smith and Alex de Angelis are poised to return to MotoE for a second season, with both included on the series’ 2020 entry list. Smith, who finished runner-up to Matteo Ferrari in the inaugural MotoE campaign, has previously expressed a desire to continue in the all-electric series, but stressed this was

Alberto Puig says claims that Honda bikes are the hardest to ride is just a theory and is “not a fact”, highlighting HRC’s MotoGP statistics as proof of this. Marc Marquez romped to a sixth premier class crown in 2019 with 12 wins and a record 420 points, while almost single-handedly guiding Honda to the

Fabio Quartararo says his “amazing” rookie MotoGP season was spurred on by the “bad comments” made about his suitability for the Petronas SRT Yamaha ride last year. Eyebrows were raised when the new Yamaha satellite team signed Quartararo for his premier-class debut, as the young Frenchman scored just a single win in a mixed four-year

An open secret for some time, Johann Zarco’s move to Avintia Ducati for the 2020 MotoGP season was finally confirmed this week. Passed over for the works Honda seat vacated by the retired Jorge Lorenzo, Zarco became linked to the customer Ducati squad – though he initially rejected Avintia as “not a top team”. However,

Johann Zarco’s place at the Avintia Ducati squad for the 2020 MotoGP season has been officially confirmed after he revealed last week that the deal was signed. The double Moto2 world champion endured a torrid half-season aboard the factory KTM, which forced him to end his two-year contract early before KTM dropped him outright following

Johann Zarco’s MotoGP season has been a turbulent affair after his KTM dream shattered before a shock return with Avintia for 2020 was secured. Zarco came into MotoGP in 2017 as reigning double Moto2 world champion and impressed on his debut on the Tech3 Yamaha in Qatar when he led for the first six laps

Suzuki MotoGP team boss Davide Brivio says having a satellite team fielding GSX-RRs “would help”, but admits “it’s not essential”. Brivio has made no secret of his desire for Suzuki to expand its presence on the grid in the same way Honda, Ducati, Yamaha and KTM have in recent years by providing factory support to

MotoGP champion Marc Marquez says his team-mate Jorge Lorenzo didn’t “deserve” to have had such a difficult season as his final year in grand prix racing. Lorenzo announced on the eve of the Valencia finale last month that he would be calling time on his MotoGP career, as recent injuries – including a back fracture

Yamaha MotoGP boss Lin Jarvis says he would be happy for Maverick Vinales to remain part of the manufacturer’s line-up “for 2021 and beyond”. Vinales is responsible for six of Yamaha’s seven premier-class wins since his arrival in 2017, and finished as the team’s highest-placed rider in the standings this past season. Yet as he

Ousted KTM MotoGP rider Johann Zarco has revealed he has signed a deal with Ducati to race for the satellite Avintia squad in 2020. Zarco was linked to the Avintia team during the Valencia weekend after it became clear he would not be getting the works Honda seat vacated by the retired Jorge Lorenzo. The

Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso says he was “surprised” to have beaten “a lot of champions with good bikes” to second place in the 2019 standings. While dominant Honda rider Marc Marquez won the title by a mammoth 151 points, Dovizioso himself ended up 58 points clear of third place. This was despite two retirements

Aleix Espargaro says ex-Ferrari Formula 1 sporting director Massimo Rivola has ‘changed the image’ of the struggling MotoGP team following his arrival as CEO. Rivola spent 20 years in F1, working with Minardi before moving to Toro Rosso and then to Ferrari as its sporting director in 2009, where he oversaw the development of the

Double MotoGP champion Casey Stoner has revealed a fresh battle with chronic fatigue that has left him unable to stay fit enough to do any meaningful riding. Stoner appeared on the latest episode of the Rusty’s Garage podcast, and said that he’s currently on medication to deal with a serious bout of chronic fatigue syndrome.

The doctor who operated on MotoGP champion Marc Marquez’s shoulder says surgery was necessary to avoid the injury deteriorating to the severity of his 2018 shoulder issue. Marquez dislocated his left shoulder in training during the 2018 pre-season, with the issue recurring across the campaign and eventually requiring a “complicated” operation at the end of

Yamaha boss Massimo Meregalli admits the updated 2020 engine coming for February’s Sepang test is unlikely to have large improvements compared to the specification in the Valencia and Jerez tests. Yamaha duo Maverick Vinales and Valentino Rossi each had one 2020 prototype M1 for the post-season tests in Spain, which featured a new engine as

Marc Marquez topped the timesheets on the final day of 2019 MotoGP testing as inclement weather meant running at Jerez was extremely limited. Following a 30-minute delay to the start of proceedings, Avintia’s Tito Rabat was the first to emerge from his garage and take to the track, with Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo following the

MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez had successful surgery on Wednesday on a recurring right shoulder dislocation he initially suffered during qualifying at Sepang earlier this month. Marquez was thrown from his Honda at Turn 2 of the Sepang circuit in the latter stages of qualifying while trying to follow Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo, but he

MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez is set to have surgery on Wednesday on a recurring right shoulder dislocation he initially suffered during qualifying at Sepang earlier this month. Marquez was thrown from his Honda at Turn 2 of the Sepang circuit in the latter stages of qualifying while trying to follow Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo,

The Avintia MotoGP team had to split with Karel Abraham to ensure it was in a “secure situation” going forward, says the team’s sporting director Ruben Xaus. Abraham had a deal in place to continue with the Ducati customer outfit in 2020 but was informed that his contract was being terminated last week. It is

Andrea Dovizioso has warned the gains from Ducati’s “very interesting” 2020 prototype MotoGP chassis are “not as big as we want” after testing it at Valencia and Jerez. Through the 2019 season, Dovizioso called for improvements to the bike’s turn in and he added that the new Ducati chassis has demonstrated improvement. Chassis gains remain

Marc Marquez says a damp patch caused his crash early in Monday’s MotoGP test at Jerez and led to a partial dislocation of his right shoulder. Marquez sat top of the session early on Monday after his initial run on his 2019-spec Honda, but quickly switched to his ’20-spec RC213V. In the morning, the track

Maverick Vinales opened up the final MotoGP post-season test of 2019 at Jerez fastest in a session which was red-flagged three times, as Marc Marquez also crashed in the afternoon. The track stayed silent for the first 45 minutes of the session before Aleix Espargaro disrupted the calm on his Aprilia, with KTM duo Brad

Cal Crutchlow says Honda won’t be giving back the LCR MotoGP crew it took to help Jorge Lorenzo this year, as they will remain in place for Alex Marquez. Crutchlow revealed HRC took three members of his team away from him at the end of last year to form part of Lorenzo’s crew for the

Moto2 squad Marc VDS has replaced the Honda MotoGP-bound Alex Marquez with Augusto Fernandez, increasing the liklihood that Johann Zarco will sign for Avintia in MotoGP. The Belgian-owned outfit Marc VDS, which has won three of the last six Moto2 riders’ titles with Marquez, Franco Morbidelli and Tito Rabat, was left scrambling to find a