Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says Yamaha must strive to keep progressing throughout 2019 after its strong start to MotoGP pre-season testing. Yamaha carried the strong form it showed in the first test of 2019 at Sepang into the opening day of running

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo admits he remains “very far” from feeling comfortable on Honda’s MotoGP bike after concluding the first day of Qatar pre-season testing down in 21st place. Lorenzo was making his first outing since last November as the final winter

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales kicked off the final pre-season MotoGP test in Qatar on top as Marc Marquez suffered his first crash since his shoulder operation. Reigning champion Marquez’s fall occurred at the final corner, but his crash was a

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM CEO Stefan Pierer believes the money it would take to sign five-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez is better spent developing its RC16 premier-class bike. Honda rider Marquez has been long linked with a potential future KTM switch due to

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia became the sixth and final MotoGP manufacturer to reveal its livery for the 2019 season on Friday. It displayed its new colours in Qatar ahead of the second and final pre-season test at the Losail track, which commences on

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indonesia has signed a three-year deal to host a MotoGP street race starting from 2021. Plans to construct an all-new venue in the Mandalika area of the island of Lombok, with the aim of hosting MotoGP, were originally reported by

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brad Binder has revealed he was promised a MotoGP test by KTM after his first Moto2 victory last year, and is still waiting for it to be honoured. Binder won the 2016 Moto3 title with the Ajo KTM squad in

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says losing MotoGP titles he feels he “deserved” to win are helping to keep him motivated as he turns 40 years old. Yamaha rider Rossi, who celebrates his 40th birthday on Saturday, is still chasing an elusive 10th

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo says he intends to end his premier-class motorcycle racing career at Honda. The 31-year-old, who has contested nine MotoGP campaigns with Yamaha and two with Ducati, appeared to be in danger of dropping off the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki has emulated rival MotoGP manufacturer Honda in creating a designated motorsport department, the Suzuki Racing Company. SRC will be an independent division with its own budget, like theHonda Racing Corporation. Its creation is intended to give Suzuki’s MotoGP outfit

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull says it hopes its sponsorship of the Tech3 KTM MotoGP team will allow it to emulate its programme of bringing juniors into Formula 1 with Toro Rosso. Tech3 has picked up the energy drinks company as a title

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM has become the latest MotoGP manufacturer to launch its bike for the 2019 MotoGP season, along with the manufacturer’s new satellite team Tech3. The presentation for both squads took place at KTM’s Mattighofen headquarters in Austria on Tuesday. Tech3,

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The first pre-season test of the 2019 MotoGP season took place in Sepang last week, with Ducati ending up smashing the circuit’s unofficial lap record. After analysing the times and main storylines from the week in Malaysia, the first themes

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda’s 2019 MotoGP bike is still susceptible to front-end crashes despite the manufacturer’s effort to improve this aspect, believes Marc Marquez. Marquez suffered 23 crashes across the 2018 season on his way to a fifth MotoGP title, a contributing factor

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aleix Espargaro says Aprilia’s 2019-spec MotoGP bike is the model the team should have had last season, in the wake of an encouraging pre-season test at Sepang. Espargaro endured a troublesome 2018, believing the team chased a wrong development path,

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says Ducati’s sweep of the top four positions on the final day of the Sepang MotoGP test is not an accurate reflection of the Italian marque’s current strength. Dovizioso ended up fourth-fastest on the third and final day

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow says he “couldn’t have asked for a better” return to riding in pre-season MotoGP testing at Sepang following a three-month injury layoff. Crutchlow broke his right ankle in a heavy crash at Phillip Island, and

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi believes the Yamaha MotoGP team is no longer “lost” after completing the first pre-season test of 2019 at Sepang. Yamaha has made operational changes to its MotoGP programme after two disappointing campaigns, which included the appointment of a

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New KTM MotoGP test rider Dani Pedrosa could miss be unavailable for three months as he recovers from successful surgery on his fractured collarbone. Shortly after his first experience aboard a KTM at Jerez in a private test just before

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danilo Petrucci smashed the unofficial MotoGP Sepang lap record on the final day of pre-season testing at the Malaysian circuit, heading a Ducati 1-2-3-4. The Italian’s 1m58.239s lap was almost six tenths better than the previous record, which was set

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki has showed “incredible” long-run pace during 2019 MotoGP pre-season testing so far, reckons rider Alex Rins. Rins was runner-up on both days of the test so far, but said there should be more attention on the bike’s speed on

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi admits Yamaha MotoGP team-mate Maverick Vinales’ session-topping lap time on the second day of 2019 pre-season testing was “unattainable” for him. Vinales left it until the closing stages of Thursday’s running to become the first rider of the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez has conceded he is unlikely to be completely fit for the 2019 MotoGP season-opening Qatar Grand Prix having had to limit his test running due to pain. Despite having still not totally recovered from his shoulder operation in

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales beat Alex Rins late on to top the second day of MotoGP’s 2019 pre-season testing at Sepang. Vinales overhauled Rins, who had dethroned long-time leader Andrea Dovizioso just a few minutes earlier, moments before the chequered flag

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP rookie Fabio Quartararo has been upgraded to a 2019-spec Yamaha for his debut premier class season with the newly-formed Petronas SRT outfit. The Petronas squad, which replaces Tech3 as Yamaha’s B-team in 2019, had originally planned to put Moto2

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says Yamaha’s choice of engine for the 2019 MotoGP season has been “more or less decided”, after the manufacturer brought just one specification to the Sepang test. Team boss Lin Jarvis had described the Sepang test as “crucial”

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez says he could not keep up his benchmark pace in pre-season testing at Sepang because he is still recovering from surgery on his left shoulder. Marquez struggled with shoulder pain throughout his title-winning 2018 season

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez set the pace for Honda on the first day of 2019 pre-season testing at Sepang despite not being fully fit. Marquez, who is still recovering from surgery that was required to fix his troubled left

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales says his new crew chief Esteban Garcia will offer “more trust” than his predecessor Ramon Forcada. Vinales and Forcada worked together in 2017 and ’18 after Vinales replaced three-time champion Jorge Lorenzo at the works

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha team boss Lin Jarvis says the MotoGP outfit does not need a “revolution” to get back to winning regularly in 2019. Yamaha revealed a dramatic new look for the upcoming campaign on Monday at a Jakarta launch event ahead