Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP’s British Grand Prix has been cancelled due to torrential rain at Silverstone. Despite the efforts of race organisers to avoid forecast rain, which led to the race being rescheduled for 1130 local time instead of 1300 as originally planned, a downpour

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP race director Mike Webb says the asphalt at certain Silverstone corners will be cut in a bid to improve drainage, with Sunday’s race under threat from expected heavy rain. Following a spate of crashes at Stowe during a heavy downpour in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Avintia Ducati MotoGP rider Tito Rabat is to undergo “emergency surgery” on Saturday evening after suffering a broken leg in an impact with Franco Morbidelli’s bike at Silverstone. Rabat was hit by Morbidelli’s Marc VDS Honda machine in the gravel at Stowe

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi says he is “very upset” about a mistake in his pit box that has consigned him to 12th on the grid for MotoGP’s Silverstone round. Rossi was slowest of all in the delayed Q2 pole shootout, which was

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone will start 90 minutes earlier than originally scheduled on Sunday due to the threat of heavy rain. Instead of going ahead at 1pm UK time as was originally planned, the race will now be held at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jack Miller is “900%” sure that his slicks gamble during a drying MotoGP qualifying session at Silverstone would have resulted in pole if he had time for one more lap. Despite delays before both Q1 and Q2 due to the accident involving

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo grabbed his second pole of the MotoGP season in a rain-affected and delayed British Grand Prix pole shootout at Silverstone, leading a Ducati one-two ahead of Andrea Dovizioso. Heavy rain at the tail-end of FP4 caused several riders to fall

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo grabbed his second pole of the MotoGP season in a rain-affected and delayed British Grand Prix pole shootout at Silverstone, leading a Ducati 1-2 ahead of Andrea Dovizioso. Heavy rain at the tail-end of FP4 caused several riders to fall

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new SIC Yamaha MotoGP team has confirmed it will carry title sponsorship from Petronas, while officially unveiling 2019 riders Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo and its Moto2 and Moto3 line-ups. SIC will replace the Angel Nieto Ducati team on the MotoGP

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danilo Petrucci has hit out at fellow Ducati MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo after what he called a “terrifying” near-miss during second British Grand Prix practice at Silverstone. The pair nearly collided in the closing stages of the session at Vale corner, where

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso topped second practice for MotoGP’s British Grand Prix, leading local hero Cal Crutchlow by just five thousandths of a second. Although spots of rain fell in the closing stages of the preceding Moto3 session, the drizzle had abated

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. This weekend, the MotoGP enterprise heads to Silverstone, one of the fastest and most flowing venues on the grand prix motorcycle racing calendar, for the British Grand Prix Famous sweeping corners such as Copse, Stowe and Abbey provide some of the biggest

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alvaro Bautista will leave MotoGP after nine seasons, switching to World Superbikes with the factory Ducati team for 2019. With Yamaha’s new satellite team SIC Racing taking over Bautista’s current team Nieto Ducati’s MotoGP entries next year, the 33-year-old’s hopes of remaining

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP race winner Cal Crutchlow has extended his factory contract with Honda until the end of 2020. The 32-year-old has ridden for Honda satellite team LCR since 2015 and became a Honda-contracted rider last year, signing through to ’19. That involved Crutchlow

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM MotoGP boss Pit Beirer says the Austrian manufacturer will cut back on the number of wildcard appearances for its test riders in the future. Test rider Mika Kallio entered four races in KTM’s first full season in MotoGP in 2017, and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jonathan Rea’s World Superbike dominance has created a “block” on MotoGP teams signing WSBK riders, reckons 2003 champion Neil Hodgson. Rea and Kawasaki have had a stranglehold on WSBK since 2015, with Rea winning the title for the past three seasons and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Loris Baz will make his MotoGP return at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, standing in for the injured Pol Espargaro at KTM. Espargaro fractured his left collarbone in a Sunday warm-up crash at Brno earlier this month, and sat out the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow believes the retiring Dani Pedrosa would not make a good test rider for the Honda MotoGP squad. Pedrosa will bring his 13-year MotoGP career to an end later this year, but has received offers to become a test rider in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia MotoGP boss Romano Albesiano believes the team is still “suffering the consequences” of signing rookie Sam Lowes for 2017. Lowes graduated from Moto2 to join Aprilia’s fledgling MotoGP project last year, but his two-year deal was terminated early amid a string

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM motorsport boss Pit Beirer says rider Pol Espargaro is “not using his full potential” in MotoGP and needs to approach races differently. Espargaro broke his collarbone when he crashed out of the warm-up session ahead of the Czech Grand Prix, admitting

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Retiring Honda MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa says he is at a loss to explain to why he has not been able to perform to his usual level in 2018. Pedrosa announced his decision to step away from grand prix motorcycle racing at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pramac Ducati rider Jack Miller admits he is going through a “low point” in his MotoGP career after a disappointing Austrian Grand Prix. Miller’s transition from Honda to Ducati this year initially looked seamless as he finished inside the top 10 in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales admits he is finding it “impossible to enjoy” riding at the moment after his dismal run to 12th in Austria. Vinales could only qualify 11th for the Red Bull Ring round, with that result – combined with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Scott Redding has issued an apology to Aprilia for describing its MotoGP bike as a “piece of s***” after last weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix. Redding was unable to contain his emotions after finishing 20th in dry conditions at the Red Bull Ring,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi reckons Jorge Lorenzo will “lose out” when he joins rival MotoGP manufacturer Honda next year. After a disappointing first season at Ducati last year and a similarly slow start to the 2018 campaign, the Italian manufacturer’s bosses

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi reckons his “character” and experience are helping him to deal with Yamaha’s ongoing MotoGP issues better than team-mate Maverick Vinales. Yamaha’s winless streak is now up to 22 races after last weekend’s Austria race, a slump caused mainly by the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia rider Scott Redding has described his RS-GP machine as a “piece of s***” following his 20th place finish in Sunday’s Austria MotoGP race. Redding was fast in the wet at the Red Bull Ring, setting the second quickest time in a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The outgoing Angel Nieto MotoGP squad has announced it will return to Moto2 next season as it “refocuses” on the two junior classes of grand prix motorcycle racing in 2019. Nieto, formerly known as Aspar, runs satellite Ducati machinery in the top

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha’s crisis scenario during MotoGP’s Austrian Grand Prix weekend was a reflection of the kind of troubles it now faces due to choices made after the return of Valentino Rossi. The first conclusion we can draw from Yamaha technical director Kouji Tsuya’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP boss Lin Jarvis has revealed the marque’s new SIC satellite team will run Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo in its first season in the premier class next year. Morbidelli will move across from the Marc VDS Honda squad, which looks