MotoGP promoter Dorna Sports has announced a preliminary agreement to bring a Hungarian Grand Prix to the calendar from 2022. The announcement comes nine years after the country’s previous attempt to hold a MotoGP race collapsed. The series was meant to make its first visit to Hungary since 1992 in 2010 at the proposed new

The recent Malaysian MotoGP served up a significant statistic for Yamaha, as Maverick Vinales’ dominant win marked its first brace of victories in one season since 2017. After crashing out of the fight for the win in Australia, Vinales led from start to finish at Sepang in a dominant display, which harked back to the

Reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has outlined what changes he wants made to the 2020 Honda in a bid to find more performance. Marquez eased to his sixth premier class world title this season with four races to spare, and won 11 grands prix while finishing inside the top two in 17 of the

Jonas Folger has announced he has split with Yamaha after less than a year as the manufacturer’s European MotoGP test rider. Folger joined Yamaha’s European test team at the start of 2019 season and also added five Moto2 outings with the Petronas-backed SIC Moto2 team to his schedule. He claims he had verbally agreed to

MotoGP boss Carmelo Ezpeleta has urged Jorge Lorenzo to make a decision on his future, having described the three-time premier class champion’s recent struggles with Honda as “sad”. Lorenzo is approaching the conclusion of what has been a nightmare first season as a Honda rider, sitting 19th in the championship with just 25 points to

Iker Lecuona will stand in for Miguel Oliveira at the Tech3 KTM team in the final round of the MotoGP season in Valencia. It means Lecuona, who will race alongside Oliveira at the team in 2020, will make his MotoGP debut at the Ricardo Tormo circuit. “To have this opportunity in my home Grand Prix

Aprilia’s MotoGP engine is set for a fundamental redesign in 2020 as part of the RS-GP’s overhaul for next season, racing department CEO Massimo Rivola has revealed. Aprilia has finished at the bottom of the MotoGP manufacturers’ standings in the last two yaars and holds the same spot in this year’s table, 13 points behind

Maverick Vinales says his improved form in the second half of the MotoGP season is down to avoiding new parts and focusing on extracting the maximum from his Yamaha bike. Since the summer break, Vinales has scored three podiums and victory in Malaysia, and came close to adding a third win to Yamaha’s tally for

Phillip Island could move to the start of the 2021 MotoGP calendar, as promoter Dorna Sports pushes to stage the event in better weather conditions on safety grounds. A run of cold, windy spring conditions during recent Australian Grands Prix has resulted in the October date falling further and further out of favour in the

Jack Miller was critical of riders attempting forceful overtakes on the inside of Sepang’s final corner in the MotoGP Malaysian Grand Prix, after receiving a heavy hit from Alex Rins. Rins clattered into the side of Miller at the Turn 15 hairpin while trying to take fifth away from the Pramac Ducati, with the Suzuki

LCR Honda MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow says his Malaysian Grand Prix was compromised by power loss that led to a “horrendous” start and left him mired in the pack. Crutchlow had qualified fifth at Sepang, but was muscled down the order on the opening lap and was running only 12th when he crashed out with

Malaysian Grand Prix poleman Fabio Quartararo says a “total disaster” of a first lap put him on the back foot for the rest of the Sepang MotoGP race. The Petronas SRT rider was expected to challenge for his first race win at Sepang, having set lap records in practice and taken a convincing pole position.

Suzuki rider Joan Mir criticised MotoGP race direction for penalising him for his Malaysian Grand Prix clash with Johann Zarco – saying Zarco apologised to him for it. Zarco and Mir were running right behind Jack Miller in ninth and 10th beginning the final quarter of the race when they collided at the long Turn

Marc Marquez watched his start from MotoGP’s 2015 Italian Grand Prix to inspire his launch from 11th to second on the opening lap of this year’s Malaysian race. The Honda rider crashed heavily while trying to follow eventual poleman Fabio Quartararo in Saturday’s qualifying session at Sepang and ended up 11th on the grid, which

Maverick Vinales led every lap of MotoGP’s Malaysian Grand Prix to take a dominant win ahead of Marc Marquez and Andrea Dovizioso. The victory was as straightforward as they come for Vinales, the Yamaha rider taking the lead on the opening lap and never looking back. His final margin was three seconds over Marquez, as

Alex Marquez sealed the 2019 Moto2 world championship by finishing second to Brad Binder and beating his other main rival Tom Luthi in the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Marc VDS rider held his nerve in a tense battle with Binder and Luthi to keep his points gap above the required 24 to add to his

Andrea Dovizioso says Marc Marquez’s shadowing of MotoGP Malaysian Grand Prix poleman Fabio Quartararo prior to his qualifying crash was “very aggressive”, but praised the Honda rider’s relentlessness. Marquez followed Petronas SRT rider Quartararo on their first run in Q2 and tried to do the same in the latter stages of the session. The Honda

Indonesian rider Afridza Munandar has died from injuries sustained in a crash in the Asia Talent Cup race on the support bill at MotoGP’s Malaysian Grand Prix. The opening race of the 2019 ATC finale at Sepang got under way after MotoGP qualifying earlier on Saturday. On the opening lap, at Turn 10, Munandar was

Marc Marquez says his massive crash in Malaysian Grand Prix MotoGP qualifying was the result of him trying to “copy” eventual poleman Fabio Quartararo’s Turn 2 approach. Quartararo set new lap records in both of Friday’s practice sessions and was already targeted by Marquez in the early stages of Q2 to be used as a

Fabio Quartararo will start MotoGP’s Malaysian Grand Prix from pole position for Petronas SRT Yamaha, while Marc Marquez crashed heavily. Rookie Quartararo put in a blinding 1m58.303s right at the flag to grab pole from fellow Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales. The lap is the fastest ever set on a MotoGP race weekend at the Sepang

Franco Morbidelli edged Petronas SRT Yamaha team-mate Fabio Quartararo by two-tenths in the third practice session for MotoGP’s Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang. Morbidelli jumped into the top spot with nine of the 45 minutes to go, his initial benchmark a 1m59.074s. He then improved to a 1m58.761s during a frantic final run, enough to

Fabio Quartararo believes he and his Petronas SRT MotoGP team “deserve” the factory-spec Yamaha he will ride in the 2020 season. Earlier on Friday at the Malaysian Grand Prix, it was confirmed that Quartararo would join team-mate Franco Morbidelli in having machine parity with works Yamaha riders Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales next season. In

Tech3 MotoGP rider Miguel Oliveira faces a dilemma over whether to have surgery on his shoulder or not, after it forced him to pull out of the Malaysian Grand Prix. Oliveira suffered some tendon damage in his shoulder when he was wiped out by Johann Zarco during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in August

Fabio Quartararo set the fastest-ever MotoGP lap of the Sepang circuit with a 1m59.027s in FP1 for the Malaysian Grand Prix to lead a Petronas SRT 1-2. The Frenchman won out of an SRT Yamaha shootout in the closing stages of the 45-minute session, pipping team-mate Franco Morbidelli by 0.083s to head a 1-2 to

Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo admits his form has been “unrecognisable” for most of the period since he joined Honda from Ducati. Lorenzo has endured a nightmare first season aboard the Honda RC213V in 2019, struggling with injuries and a general lack of confidence with the bike, and has finished no higher than 11th so

Valentino Rossi says his current worst season as a Yamaha MotoGP rider is still “a little bit better” than his two difficult seasons with Ducati. With two races still to run in 2019, Rossi is seventh in the standings with 153 points having scored just two podiums so far, putting him on course for his

Johann Zarco made his return to MotoGP action in Australia with LCR Honda following his dismissal from KTM following September’s Misano race. Encountering tricky conditions throughout the weekend as he tried to learn the 2018-spec RC213V, Zarco showed flashes of speed and ended up just 26 seconds from the victory in 13th spot. His debut

Honda MotoGP team boss Alberto Puig admits that securing a triple success of riders’, manufacturers’ and teams’ titles in 2019 would be “incredible” given Jorge Lorenzo’s current performances. Marc Marquez already sealed his sixth riders’ title earlier this month at Buriram, and two weeks later he put the manufacturers’ prize beyond reach of Honda’s rivals

Andrea Dovizioso admits he is “not that happy” to have cemented the runner-up spot in this year’s MotoGP standings because Ducati is still incapable of challenging Marc Marquez. By finishing seventh in Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix, Dovizioso moved 57 points clear of Suzuki rider Alex Rins and therefore assured himself of second in this year’s

MotoGP Australian Grand Prix winner Marc Marquez admits he had to pass Cal Crutchlow aggressively or else leader Maverick Vinales would have broken away and ‘finished the race’. Yamaha rider Vinales moved ahead of early leader Crutchlow at the Honda hairpin on lap 10, and had displayed pace throughout practice which suggested he had the