Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP veteran Alvaro Bautista admits his future in grand prix motorcycling’s top tier is likely to hinge on whether Dani Pedrosa joins the mooted new satellite Yamaha outfit. Pedrosa is widely expected to be part of a new Petronas-backed, Sepang-owned operation next

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP champions Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo hope efforts to bring Formula 1 to Assen do not succeed due to the potential impact on the track surface and layout. The circuit, which hosts one of MotoGP’s marquee races in the Dutch TT,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi protege Franco Morbidelli could emulate Johann Zarco’s MotoGP form should his mooted switch to a Yamaha bike for 2019 come to fruition, says Pramac Ducati rider Jack Miller. Morbidelli, who graduated to MotoGP this year with Miller’s former Marc VDS

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP 2019 debutant Joan Mir says he picked Suzuki over Honda because it wanted him more. Honda agreed a pre-contract with the 20-year-old Moto2 rookie, but instead he will step up to MotoGP with Suzuki – which has only won one race

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia’s new recruit Andrea Iannone says he signed a “very special contract” with his new employer, with options that go beyond the standard two-year MotoGP factory contract cycle. Iannone, who currently rides for Suzuki, will replace Scott Redding at the Italian works

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo’s campaign to get back into the MotoGP 2018 title fight will be hampered by his “bad days” being worse than his rivals’, according to LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow. Lorenzo has made a recent breakthrough with his Ducati Desmosedici GP18 bike,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa says that he was “more or less” convinced two years ago that he would leave Honda’s MotoGP team at the end of the 2018 season. Pedrosa has raced Honda bikes during his entire grand prix racing career, and has been

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo believes MotoGP rival Valentino Rossi had a “more complicated” bike in his time at Ducati and would have fared better on the current GP18. Lorenzo emulated Rossi’s 2011 move by switching from Yamaha to Ducati for ’17, and it looked

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The MotoGP grid is likely to lose two of its 24 bikes next year, Autosport understands. The premier-class is currently populated by 12 two-bike teams, all of which are guaranteed places on the grid by the set of agreements and regulations that

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sidelined MotoGP rider Jonas Folger has made his first outing on grand prix machinery since he stopped racing last year in a test with the Kalex Moto2 team. Folger’s rookie season in the premier class in 2017 included a second-place finish in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New factory Ducati MotoGP signing Danilo Petrucci says he turned down a 2020 option in his deal with the works outfit. Ducati has called up Pramac rider Petrucci as replacement for the Honda-bound Jorge Lorenzo for next year, but confirmed the Italian

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo says he has “nothing to lose” in chasing after MotoGP’s runaway championship leader Marc Marquez, who Lorenzo says will be under “a little bit of pressure”. Lorenzo recovered from an abysmal start to his 2018 season with back-to-back

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales tried to emulate Tech3 privateer Johann Zarco’s seating position in the Barcelona MotoGP test, but said it only made the 2018 bike more difficult. Zarco has used a 2016-specification YZR-M1 to great effect since his debut in the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says the solutions trialled in the Barcelona MotoGP test to fix Yamaha’s long-standing acceleration problems did not work, leaving him with “the same bike” for two more months. While Rossi is on a run of three consecutive podium finishes, he

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez topped the post-Catalan Grand Prix test day at Barcelona. Marquez overhauled Suzuki’s Andrea Iannone with four minutes left on the clock in the eight-hour session, posting a 1m38.916s – a lap time that would have been good

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow says he expects “horseshit” claims that Honda is backing him over its MotoGP factory rider Dani Pedrosa, now that the Spaniard is officially on his way out. Pedrosa will be replaced by three-time champion Jorge Lorenzo in 2019, and his

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso’s three crashes in the past four MotoGP races are “not normal” for the reliable Ducati rider, according to championship leader Marc Marquez. Dovizioso crashed out while chasing after Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo in last weekend’s Catalan Grand Prix, and is

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says his Barcelona MotoGP race was “in the trash” after one lap, as the Yamaha rider’s start woes continue. Despite Vinales vowing to try a new formation lap procedure that involved putting more temperature into his tyres for Sunday’s race,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso says his Catalan Grand Prix crash was down to “pushing too much” to stay in contention for victory. Dovizioso was running a little over a second behind the race-leading duo of team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and championship leader

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP team manager Davide Tardozzi says the squad “always knew” Honda-bound Jorge Lorenzo would eventually start winning races for his current team. Lorenzo had a tough first year with Ducati and, after a poor start to the 2018 season, eventually signed

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo scored his second consecutive MotoGP win, converting pole position at Barcelona into a dominant triumph after a short battle with Marc Marquez. Lorenzo led every lap but the first in an attritional race, with not enough classified finishers

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi says the front tyre selection available at the Catalan Grand Prix in “not right”, having been on the losing side of a post-Barcelona test vote last month. MotoGP held an in-season test at the Catalan Grand Prix

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales says he will make an extra effort to warm up his tyres so as to avoid his customary early-race struggles in Sunday’s Catalan Grand Prix. Vinales qualified fourth in Barcelona, and harbours high hopes for the race,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Catalan Grand Prix poleman Jorge Lorenzo says he feels “probably even better” in Barcelona than he did in Mugello, where he took his first MotoGP victory with Ducati. Lorenzo, who has never started a Barcelona MotoGP race outside the front row, has

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow says reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez’s crash-saving manoeuvres are making his fellow Honda riders “look like idiots”. LCR rider Crutchlow, who has revealed he is riding with a broken sacrum, fell off his bike at the fast Turn 13 right-hander

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo claimed his first MotoGP pole position for Ducati in qualifying for the Catalan Grand Prix in Barcelona. Lorenzo, who had recorded his first win with Ducati last time out at Mugello, beat the resurgent Marc Marquez by 0.066s late on

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi has warned that Jorge Lorenzo should not be counted out of the 2018 MotoGP title fight yet. Lorenzo had a disastrous start to 2018, failing to finish in the top 10 in the first four races, but turned his campaign

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez has admitted that he “didn’t feel comfortable” on the opening day of track action at the Catalan Grand Prix. MotoGP points leader Marquez was fourth in first practice at Barcelona on Friday but classified only 12th in the afternoon session,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP has signed a preliminary agreement to add a Rio de Janeiro-based Brazilian Grand Prix to its schedule from 2021. The deal, struck between championship organisers Dorna and race promoter Rio Motorsports, would see the grand prix take place at a new

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa says he is considering “several options” as his future destination following his long-time relationship with Honda’s MotoGP outfit. Pedrosa will leave Honda after 13 years with the Japanese manufacturer in MotoGP, as he will be replaced by Jorge Lorenzo. “It