Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP champion Marc Marquez says he would prefer Honda to keep its current test rider Stefan Bradl, rather than pursue Casey Stoner following his exit from Ducati. Stoner, who won MotoGP titles for both Ducati and Honda prior to his retirement from

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo says his injuries felt “worse than expected” in Friday practice ahead of his final MotoGP race with Ducati at Valencia. Lorenzo fractured his left wrist in a big shunt in Thailand practice last month and has spent the four grands

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Controversial grand prix rider Romano Fenati will be “starting from zero” when he reunites with the Marinelli Snipers team for a return to Moto3 in 2019. Fenati, once a protege of MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi, made headlines when he attempted to grab

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo is certain of being on the grid for his final race as a Ducati MotoGP rider in Valencia, having missed the four previous grands prix due to injury. Lorenzo injured his foot in a major highside crash at the start

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Scott Redding says he won’t miss the “atmosphere” and “the general attitude” of MotoGP after he departs for a move into British Superbikes. Redding has been part of the grand prix racing paddock since 2008, and has spent the past five campaigns

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP sporting director Paolo Ciabatti says the onus is on Danilo Petrucci to prove he deserves his promotion to the factory team as Jorge Lorenzo’s 2019 replacement. Pramac rider Petrucci was chosen to partner Andrea Dovizioso in Ducati’s works team for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The nascent all-electric MotoE championship has unveiled a complete 18-rider grid for its inaugural campaign next year. Participating teams had already individually revealed 14 participants, and the official series announcement revealed the four remaining riders for the five-round schedule. Former MotoGP rider

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow has targeted being fit for MotoGP’s February 2019 tests, having admitted he originally hoped to race this weekend despite his injury needing a 12-month recovery period for civilians. The LCR Honda rider broke his right ankle in a crash in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati has announced that two-time MotoGP champion Casey Stoner will not continue in his test rider role beyond the end of 2018. Autosport reported in August that Stoner had decided to end his association with Ducati, with which he had won his

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former MotoGP rider Alex de Angelis will return to grand prix racing next season with the Pramac Racing MotoE team. De Angelis is a veteran of 61 premier class starts, and had one outing with Pramac in 2013 when Andrea Iannone was

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dorna Sports has awarded exclusive Spanish broadcasting rights for MotoGP to online-only streaming service DAZN for the 2019 season. The move is a significant step away from traditional television for MotoGP given that Spain is one of its biggest markets, hosting four

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso has labelled outgoing Ducati MotoGP team-mate Jorge Lorenzo “a strange person” following their latest war of words. Lorenzo will join Marc Marquez at Honda in 2019, following an up-and-down two-season tenure alongside Dovizioso at the factory Ducati team that has

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP race winner and sometime title contender Sete Gibernau will come out of retirement in 2019 to race in the new MotoE series. Gibernau, 45, is latest rider to sign up to participate in the new five-round all-electric MotoGP support series and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Injured Avintia Ducati rider Tito Rabat has ruled out contesting the MotoGP season finale in Valencia to instead focus on being fit for post-season testing. Rabat, who has been on the sidelines since suffering a triple fracture of his right leg in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales will adopt a ‘smarter’ approach to MotoGP winter testing at Valencia this year following Yamaha’s poor 2018 season. Vinales’ Australian Grand Prix victory is the team’s only win of a campaign in which he and team-mate Valentino Rossi have regularly

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki MotoGP team boss Davide Brivio says Andrea Iannone was dropped for 2019 for “business reasons” after the Italian recently spoke out against his dismissal. After finishing second at Phillip Island two weeks ago, Iannone emphasised what he felt was his personal

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tito Rabat has ridden a motorcycle for the first time since his leg-breaking Silverstone crash ahead of a planned MotoGP comeback in next weekend’s Valencia season finale. Rabat has been out of action since he sustained a triple fracture of his right

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Newly-crowned Moto2 champion Francesco Bagnaia has revealed he passed up a “possibility” to graduate to MotoGP in 2018 to try to win the intermediate category instead. Bagnaia, who is part of Valentino Rossi’s academy, ended the 2017 Moto2 season as top rookie

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati will hold a clear-the-air meeting with its MotoGP riders Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso after the feed that broke out between them during the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend. The war of words began when Dovizioso passed comment on Lorenzo being forced

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says it was “impossible” for him to match the pace of Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez in MotoGP’s Malaysia race. Rossi led the majority of the Sepang race on Sunday, but was being caught by Marc Marquez when

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati failed to properly manage its riders during the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend, and the Italian manufacturer’s bosses must make sure the team’s priorities are clear. Jorge Lorenzo missed his fourth consecutive race after pushing the limits on Friday, just nine days

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Current KTM MotoGP rider Bradley Smith has sealed a move to the all-electric MotoE support category for the 2019 season. Smith, who will be replaced by Johann Zarco in KTM’s line-up after next weekend’s Valencia season finale, will combine his MotoE duties

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso admits he isn’t totally certain of the cause for his “really bad race” in the Malaysian Grand Prix. Barring his crash in Japan two weeks ago, Dovizioso has consistently finished on the podium since August’s Czech GP,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Malaysian Grand Prix winner Marc Marquez said he “didn’t have anything more” in his fight with Valentino Rossi before the Yamaha rider crashed out late on at Sepang. Starting seventh after being handed a six-place grid drop for impeding Andrea Iannone in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi admits he was “devastated” that his victory bid in the Malaysian Grand Prix ended in a crash, which he described as his “first mistake of the season”. Rossi took the lead from poleman Johann Zarco at the start and led

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo has gone on a social media onslaught against Ducati MotoGP team-mate Andrea Dovizioso over remarks made about Lorenzo’s withdrawal from the Malaysian Grand Prix. The row was sparked by Dovizioso’s comments to Sky Italia after qualifying at Sepang on Saturday,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP-bound Valentino Rossi protege Francesco Bagnaia wrapped up the ’18 Moto2 title by finishing third at Sepang behind race winner Luca Marini and title rival Miguel Oliveira. Pramac Ducati 2019 MotoGP signing Bagnaia arrived in Malaysia 36 points clear of Oliveira, who

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez took a comfortable ninth victory of the 2018 MotoGP season in the Malaysian Grand Prix after long-time leader Valentino Rossi crashed. From second on the grid, Rossi outdragged poleman Johann Zarco to take the lead into the first corner and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says his Yamaha MotoGP crew has “no excuse” for its poor performance in wet conditions, after struggling to 11th in Sepang qualifying. Vinales was among the quickest riders in the field throughout practice in the dry and topped PF3, but

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech 3 Yamaha’s Johann Zarco will line up first on the grid for the Sepang MotoGP race after poleman Marc Marquez was penalised for impeding Andrea Iannone. The Honda rider, who sealed the 2018 MotoGP title back in Motegi, outpaced the rest