Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso insists he gave serious consideration to leaving the Ducati MotoGP team before finally securing a contract extension. It was announced on Friday that Dovizioso will remain at Ducati for another two seasons beyond the end of 2018, ending speculation over

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati has announced its star MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso will continue with the team until the end of the 2020 season. Dovizioso, who has been a Ducati factory rider since 2013, mounted the team’s first title challenge since the Casey Stoner era

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says he is getting “closer” to agreeing a fresh deal to remain at the Ducati MotoGP team beyond the end of the 2018 season. Last year’s championship runner-up is known to have been pressuring Ducati to reward him for his

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow says he turned down an offer from Honda to spearhead its factory Suzuka 8 Hours effort this year. Honda announced late last year it would return to the Japanese endurance event in a full works capacity for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Aprilia MotoGP team has announced it has retained Aleix Espargaro for a further two seasons. Espargaro, who has one premier-class podium finish to his name, joined Aprilia from Suzuki on a two-year deal in 2017 and finished 15th overall last year.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM will “make a big effort” to provide its main riders with the 2019 prototype RC16 bike as early as August’s Red Bull Ring MotoGP round, according to Pol Espargaro. Test rider Mika Kallio rode the prototype in the Spanish Grand Prix

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc VDS MotoGP team boss Michael Bartholemy says his role is not under threat amid reports of a rift with owner Marc van der Straten. The team was reported to be facing an uncertain future during the Jerez weekend due to a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP general manager Gigi Dall’Igna says he expects a “definitive answer” on whether Andrea Dovizioso plans to stay with the team by next month’s Mugello race. Dovizioso’s 2017 success has greatly increased his value on the rider market, and the Italian

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo tried a new variant of chassis during a private MotoGP test at Mugello on Thursday. Lorenzo was one of a number of riders in action at the Italian venue, along with team-mate Andrea Dovizioso and all works riders

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Scott Redding believes his “time is running out” to prove he should retain his Aprilia MotoGP seat, four races into his stint with the manufacturer. Redding replaced Sam Lowes at Aprilia for 2018, after the team decided to terminate Lowes’ two-year deal

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aleix Espargaro says he has been promised a “revolution” by his Aprilia team after suffering an “unacceptable” spate of mechanical failures in the opening races of the MotoGP season. Espargaro ran out of fuel on the final lap of the Qatar Grand

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso believes Ducati team-mate Jorge Lorenzo tried to block him at all costs during MotoGP’s Jerez race, which ultimately cost the Italian a chance to fight for the win. Lorenzo and Dovizioso were running second and third in the middle stages

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda rider Dani Pedrosa has called for “more respect” from MotoGP’s race direction in the wake of his collision with Jorge Lorenzo in the Spanish Grand Prix. Lorenzo was forced wide by Ducati team-mate Andrea Dovizioso at Jerez’s Turn 6 right-hander in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales was left with “very negative feelings” after the Jerez MotoGP race, having had to push “110%” just to secure a muted seventh-place finish. Vinales’s optimism from a strong showing in the previous round at Austin was dashed once

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 Yamaha rider Johann Zarco topped MotoGP’s post-Spanish Grand Prix test at Jerez with a time less than a tenth away from Cal Crutchlow’s lap record. As well as Zarco, all Honda and KTM riders, the works Yamahas, Pramac Ducati’s Jack Miller,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi is worried Yamaha will “need another season” to recover its MotoGP form if it fails to find a quick solution to its electronics issues. Rossi and team-mate Maverick Vinales suffered with a lack of grip in the sweltering conditions all

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Marc VDS team has moved to dismiss speculation about its MotoGP future. The Belgian outfit was reported to be facing an uncertain future amid a growing dispute between team owner Marc van der Straten and team manager Michael Bartholemy. But, in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso blames both Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo for the crash that led to the trio retiring from MotoGP race at Jerez, with emphasis on the Honda rider’s actions. In the closing stages, Lorenzo was keeping Dovizioso and Pedrosa at bay

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The multi-bike collision in the MotoGP race at Jerez involved the “three cleanest riders” in the category, according to Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa. The crash occurred on exit of the right-hand Dry Sac corner towards the closing stages of the race,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow claims Marc Marquez would not have won the Jerez MotoGP race so easily if the reigning champion had been using the same Honda bike as the LCR rider. The factory Honda team introduced a new carbon swingarm part at the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez believes he is still “missing something” with his Honda bike, despite having scored comfortable back-to-back wins in Austin and Jerez. On the back of a dominant win from pole at COTA, Marquez charged through from fifth to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda rider Marc Marquez dominated the MotoGP race at Jerez, as team-mate Dani Pedrosa and the Ducati works duo of Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo came together in a huge crash. With Marquez breaking away out front, Dovizioso and Lorenzo were battling

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez topped Sunday’s MotoGP warm-up at Jerez but both he and factory Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa crashed. The Spaniard moved into the lead when he set a time of 1m38.864s early in the session, and did not give up the position

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former MotoGP podium finisher Stefan Bradl will make his premier-class return in August’s Czech Republic Grand Prix, as a Repsol Honda wildcard entrant. Bradl, 28, has no regular racing programme this year, instead serving as a Honda MotoGP test rider, but is

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia’s Scott Redding feels he was risking his life “for nothing” and was “wasting” his time during MotoGP’s qualifying at Jerez, after problems with traction relegated him to last place. Redding was 10th fastest in Friday’s first practice session, but dramatically slid

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow says he expects to be “rewarded” by Honda for his current form and hard work in his test role for the Japanese manufacturer. Crutchlow has featured regularly among the frontrunners in the 2018 season so far, winning in Argentina and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Moto2 frontrunner Miguel Oliveira will step up to MotoGP with the Tech3 team in 2019, for what will be the French outfit’s first season running KTM bikes. Tech 3 will end its long-standing relationship with Yamaha at the end of the year,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The factory Yamaha MotoGP team has admitted it was not as competitive as it expected in Friday practice ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez. Jerez has traditionally been a happy hunting ground for Yamaha, but the works team endured a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The prototype 2019 KTM MotoGP bike trialled in Spanish Grand Prix practice was so promising Pol Espargaro “almost couldn’t follow” it on the ’18 version. KTM gave the new bike its debut in a private test at Jerez last month, where Espargaro

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A Suzuki satellite MotoGP team is now unlikely to materialise in time for the 2019 season, Autosport has learned, with Marc VDS looking set for a Yamaha deal instead. Earlier this year Suzuki team boss Davide Brivio was “optimistic” of an extra