Moto2 frontrunner Brad Binder will make the step up to MotoGP in 2020, after signing a one-year deal with KTM to join the satellite Tech3 team alongside Miguel Oliveira. Binder made his grand prix debut in 2011 in Moto3 having won a race in the KTM-backed Red Bull Rookies Cup, before winning the lightweight class

Eight-time Ski World Cup winner and Olympic gold medallist Marcel Hirscher tested KTM’s MotoGP bike at the Red Bull Ring on Tuesday. Hirscher has won the Downhill Ski World Cup slalom title eight times and seven gold medals in the World Championships, as well as two gold medals in slalom and the combined categories at

Five-time MotoGP race winner and current World Superbike rider Marco Melandri will retire from motorcycle racing at the end of the 2019 season. Melandri announcement he had made the decision, which will bring down the curtain on a career that also yielded a 250cc title and 22 World Superbike victories, in a press conference in

Petronas Yamaha MotoGP rider Fabio Quartararo says his early German Grand Prix crash was down to “hesitation” over whether to try to overtake Ducati’s Danilo Petrucci. Quartararo had a strong launch off the line from second on the grid at the Sachsenring led into Turn 1, but he was out-braked by Marc Marquez and then

Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez admits his relatively small German Grand Prix winning margin was down to him being conscious of avoiding a repeat of his Austin crash. Marquez romped to his fifth victory of the 2019 campaign on Sunday at the Sachsenring with some 4.5 seconds in hand over second-placed Maverick Vinales after Suzuki’s

Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi says it is difficult to understand why he continued to “suffer” in MotoGP’s German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring. Rossi arrived at the Sachsenring on the back of three successive non-scores and has recently struggled to match his three fellow Yamaha riders. The seven-time MotoGP champion was encouraged by his pre-crash

Alex Rins says his Suzuki MotoGP bike gave him “no warning at all” before the crash that cost him second place in the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring. Rins recorded his second consecutive retirement on Sunday, following on from his accident while running in the lead group during the Dutch TT at Assen last

Cal Crutchlow says he would have been more committed to passing Maverick Vinales in MotoGP’s German Grand Prix had it been for the last place on the podium, instead of second. LCR Honda rider Crutchlow scored his first podium finish since the Qatar season opener, despite fracturing his tibia in the run-up to the weekend.

Honda’s Marc Marquez won at the Sachsenring for the 10th consecutive year in dominant fashion as closest MotoGP rival Alex Rins crashed out. Marquez had a sluggish getaway from pole and Fabio Quartararo was in front of him as they entered the first corner, but the Honda rider out-braked Quartararo on the outside line to

Niki Tuuli won a frantic first-ever MotoE race at the Sachsenring, which was red-flagged after five laps due to Lorenzo Savadori’s crash. Overnight rain meant the race was declared wet and the planned race distance was slashed to seven laps from the original eight, even though a large dry line had already formed by the

Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso has “lost his way” in recent MotoGP races, according to his former team-mate Cal Crutchlow. Dovizioso qualified 13th for the German Grand Prix while his title rival Marc Marquez – ahead of the Ducati rider by 44 points in the title race – has taken pole position for Sunday’s race. The

LCR Honda MotoGP rider Takaaki Nakagami says he felt like his ankle was breaking at every corner during Saturday’s German Grand Prix running at the Sachsenring. Nakagami was wiped out by Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi early in last week’s Dutch TT and, although he did not suffer any broken bones, he has struggled with an

Ducati rider Danilo Petrucci says he was angered by Joan Mir’s “strange” behaviour in MotoGP qualifying for the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring. Petrucci was first of the two to head out on track in the Q2 session but had a slow out-lap and was looking over his shoulder several times, allowing the Suzuki

Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez took a seventh consecutive pole position at the Sachsenring and beat his own lap record set last year. Marquez had a comfortable gap over his Q2 rivals from the get-go, taking the lead with a 1m20.575s lap on his first attempt and then immediately pitting for his second bike. His

Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez ended Friday at the Sachsenring as the practice pacesetter, outperforming nearest rival Alex Rins by 0.341 seconds in the afternoon session. Second in the opening practice for the German Grand Prix earlier in the day, championship leader Marquez very nearly crashed on his first flying lap in the afternoon when

Petronas SRT Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo topped the opening MotoGP session at the Sachsenring, narrowly beating championship leader Marc Marquez. Marquez, unbeaten at the Sachsenring in various classes of grand prix racing since 2009, established a big lead five minutes into the session and proceeded to better his lap on several tours. The Honda rider

MotoGP rider Aleix Espargaro admits his Aprilia team is unlikely to make a big step over the rest of the campaign and wants it to switch focus to 2020 already. Aprilia has significantly more points on the board than it had by this point in its disastrous 2018 season, but it remains last in the

Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso says people are “wrong” to question his level of aggression, after finishing a distant fourth in last weekend’s Dutch TT. Having started 11th, Dovizioso leapt up to fourth in the early stages and matched the leading trio on lap times before beginning to drop pace in the second half of

LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow has revealed he suffered a fracture in his right knee after slipping and falling from his bicycle ahead of MotoGP’s German Grand Prix this weekend. Crutchlow stopped to adjust the height of his saddle on his bicycle on Wednesday when he slipped and banged his leg against the ground. The

MotoGP race winner Danilo Petrucci will remain part of the Ducati factory team in 2020, the Italian manufacturer has announced. Petrucci was brought in to replace Jorge Lorenzo at the team on an initial one-year deal for 2019, and convinced Ducati to extend his tenure with the outfit through a solid start to the campaign,

The result could not have been better for PETRONAS after unveiling the second strand of its potent performance oils in MotoGP. Petronas Yamaha Sepang Racing Team’s Fabio Quartararo used his Yamaha M1 to set a third pole position of 2019 at the historic Assen TT circuit ahead of a second consecutive podium for the rookie

Marc Marquez says the Dutch TT was the “best race” for his MotoGP championship hopes, as the Honda rider increased his points lead to 44 after finishing second. Despite qualifying off the front row for the first time this season amid a “difficult weekend” at Assen, Marquez battled with eventual winner Maverick Vinales and third-placed

Honda test rider Stefan Bradl will replace the injured Jorge Lorenzo at MotoGP’s Sachsenring round. Bradl has made three wildcard appearances on Honda’s RC213V bike since the start of his current role with the manufacturer and also raced for satellite outfits LCR and Marc VDS as a stand-in last year. He will now contest his

Cal Crutchlow says people cannot understand how hard fellow Honda rider Marc Marquez is riding to extract the most from his bike in pursuit of his sixth MotoGP title. Marquez has finished all bar the Americas Grand Prix inside the top two, with four victories and a second-place finish at the Dutch TT helping him

Danilo Petrucci feels his decision not to make a “risky” move on Ducati MotoGP team-mate Andrea Dovizioso in the Dutch TT ultimately cost him a position to Franco Morbidelli. Petrucci and Dovizioso were fighting for fourth during the race alongside Joan Mir, but their battle allowed Morbidelli to close in. Both started the final lap

Maverick Vinales admitted that “a lot of pressure went out” after he crossed the finish line first in MotoGP’s Dutch TT and scored Yamaha’s first win of 2019. Vinales emerged victorious in a three-way fight, which included Marc Marquez and Fabio Quartararo, to win at Assen for his sixth career MotoGP top-class win and his

Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi has apologised for his crash with LCR Honda’s Takaaki Nakagami in the Dutch TT, saying the incident was “my mistake”. Rossi was challenging Nakagami for 10th place at the fast Turn 8 right-hander in the early stages, but hit the deck as he lunged down the inside. He collected Nakagami

Suzuki’s Alex Rins is “convinced” he could have fought for MotoGP Dutch TT victory if not for the “strange” crash he had at Turn 9 while leading on the third lap. Rins jumped to the front off the line and led a Suzuki one-two from team-mate Joan Mir, before losing the front under braking for

Dutch TT podium finisher Fabio Quartararo did not think he would finish the race, as he woke “from the pain” in his arm the night before the Assen MotoGP event. Quartararo underwent arm-pump surgery on his right arm prior to the Barcelona race to be fit for the physical Assen circuit, but says his arm

Maverick Vinales scored his and Yamaha’s first win of 2019 after emerging victorious in a thrilling three-way fight with Marc Marquez and Fabio Quartararo in the MotoGP Dutch TT. It was a Suzuki one-two after the start, with Alex Rins leading his rookie team-mate Joan Mir, but the team’s strong run quickly ended when Rins