Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow will make a return to MotoGP action this week in Sepang testing after the huge crash at Phillip Island that curtailed his 2018 season. Crutchlow was forced to miss the final three races of 2018

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The factory Yamaha MotoGP team has presented an all-new livery for the 2019 version of its YZR-M1 bike. The new M1, which will be campaigned by seven-time premier-class champion Valentino Rossi and Yamaha’s most recent grand prix winner Maverick Vinales,

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki has taken the wraps off its 2019 MotoGP livery in a digital launch, revealing a largely unchanged colour scheme. The manufacturer opted against a physical launch event this year in favour of releasing a YouTube video featuring the GSX-RR

Reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez says his shoulder injury remains “problematic” after riding a practice bike for the first time since undergoing surgery in December. Marquez dislocated his left shoulder on several occasions over the course of his title-winning 2018 campaign, and had an operation after the conclusion of post-season testing to get the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. British Superbike frontrunner Bradley Ray is set to make his debut on a MotoGP bike this weekend at Sepang. The 21-year-old will ride a Suzuki GSX-RR for a handful of laps on the final day of the three-day Sepang shakedown

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM race riders Johann Zarco and Pol Espargaro will take part in the MotoGP pre-season shakedown in Sepang, as new tester Dani Pedrosa misses out due to his recent surgery. Pedrosa wrapped up his grand prix racing career last year

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Franco Morbidelli believes riding a similar specification of Yamaha in the 2019 MotoGP season as his mentor Valentino Rossi will be beneficial for both riders. Morbidelli, the 2017 Moto2 champion and last year’s top MotoGP rookie with the Marc VDS

Franco Morbidelli believes riding a similar specification of Yamaha in the 2019 MotoGP season as his mentor Valentino Rossi will be beneficial for both riders. Morbidelli, the 2017 Moto2 champion and last year’s top MotoGP rookie with the Marc VDS team, has joined the newly-formed Petronas SRT team for this season. He will ride the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-MotoGP team boss and rally driver Paul Bird has received an eight-year competition ban after he was found guilty of evading a drugs test by the UK Anti Doping Panel. Bird is a regular frontrunner in the BTRDA Rally Series,

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo says he will face “the same situation” against Marc Marquez at Honda as he did when he partnered Valentino Rossi at Yamaha as a MotoGP rookie. Lorenzo has left Ducati to replace Dani Pedrosa at Honda, which helped

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new-for-2019 Petronas SRT MotoGP outfit has revealed its livery for its maiden campaign, in which it becomes Yamaha’s new satellite team. The team, which has replaced Tech3 as the sole non-factory Yamaha team in MotoGP, presented its livery at

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP will officially retire Nicky Hayden’s #69 from competition use as a tribute to the late 2006 world champion. An event will take place at the Grand Prix of the Americas at Austin in April to mark the occasion. Hayden

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has admitted he will not be in perfect shape at the first pre-season test of 2019 at Sepang after “complicated” surgery. Honda rider Marquez dislocated his shoulder multiple times while training last year, and was

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda rider Jorge Lorenzo says a “very stupid” training accident left him with a fractured scaphoid ahead of the 2019 MotoGP season. After injuring his wrist in a dirt bike crash on Saturday, Lorenzo underwent surgery two days later. Lorenzo

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The factory Honda MotoGP team has unveiled the bike that Marc Marquez and newcomer Jorge Lorenzo will ride in 2019. The works RC213V bikes will continue to carry its title sponsor Repsol’s orange, white and red colours, which have adorned

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP project leader Kouji Tsuya has stepped down from his role ahead of the 2019 season. Tsuya will be replaced in the role by Takahiro Sumi, who up to now has been the head of Yamaha’s chassis division. It

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo will not take part in the opening test of the 2019 MotoGP season at Sepang following surgery on his fractured left wrist. Honda announced on Sunday that Lorenzo would require an operation following a visit to hospital in

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New factory Ducati MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci has been granted access to team-mate Andrea Dovizioso’s support staff ahead of the 2019 season. Petrucci, who has replaced Jorge Lorenzo at Ducati, will work with Dovizioso’s doctor and psychologist, as well as

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo will undergo surgery after suffering a fracture in his left wrist, his new Repsol Honda team has confirmed. Lorenzo, who joined Honda to partner reigning champion Marc Marquez after two seasons at Ducati, was admitted

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New Honda MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo went to hospital in Verona on Saturday afternoon with severe hand pain, and is set for further tests to discount any possible injury. According to local newspaper Il Corriere del Venetto, Lorenzo showed up

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danilo Petrucci believes there is no “rush” to prove himself worthy of remaining at the factory Ducati MotoGP team beyond his current one-year contract. Petrucci steps up to the works Ducati outfit this year after four seasons with the satellite

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati has unveiled the livery it will use for the 2019 MotoGP season, featuring prominent ‘Mission Winnow’ branding. The Italian manufacturer took the wraps off its new colours, adorned on last year’s Desmosedici bike, at its launch event at the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati is poised to become the first MotoGP team to formally launch its 2019 campaign later on Friday. The Italian manufacturer will reveal its 2019 livery using an old bike at its launch event at the Philip Morris R&D Cube

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR Honda team boss Lucio Cecchinello has backed his rider Cal Crutchlow to fight for the MotoGP title in 2020. Crutchlow, who has been a fixture of the LCR Honda squad since 2015, enjoyed his strongest season to date with

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati has “three good candidates” to partner Andrea Dovizioso at its works MotoGP team in 2020, according to sporting director Paolo Ciabatti. Danilo Petrucci was promoted from satellite team Pramac to replace Jorge Lorenzo at the factory outfit this year

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says he has requested that Yamaha’s 2019 MotoGP bike is made smaller, because the existing M1 is too big for him. In his first two seasons as a Yamaha rider, Vinales has been riding a bike designed primarily

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi believes his protege Franco Morbidelli will be a “problem” for him in 2019 on a factory-supported satellite Yamaha. Now set for his sophomore MotoGP season with the newly-formed Petronas SRT Yamaha team, Morbidelli will ride an

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New KTM MotoGP test rider Dani Pedrosa has announced he will have surgery on his right shoulder, and that it will force him to skip some planned 2019 testing commitments. Pedrosa opted to call time on his grand prix racing

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 boss Herve Poncharal reckons his former rider Johann Zarco can help KTM become a top MotoGP team, drawing parallels with the rise of Andrea Dovizioso and Ducati. Zarco has joined the factory KTM team for the 2019 season after

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time 500cc champion Wayne Rainey believes Marc Marquez will be under more pressure in the Honda MotoGP camp next year than newcomer Jorge Lorenzo. Three-time premier class champion Lorenzo has joined Marquez at Honda after two mixed campaigns at Ducati,