Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa concluded MotoGP’s Thailand pre-season test with the fastest time, edging out Johann Zarco in the dying stages of Sunday’s running. Tech 3 Yamaha rider Zarco became only the second rider of the test to breach the 1m30s barrier when

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Factory rider Jorge Lorenzo says he still does not feel comfortable on Ducati’s GP18 bike after a difficult second day of testing in Thailand. The Spaniard was 10th on the second day of the Buriram pre-season test, 0.760 seconds off Honda’s

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales said a late session change on day two of Buriram MotoGP testing improved his Yamaha and helped solve issues with a bike that had previously been “too smooth”. One of Yamaha’s main issues throughout the 2017 MotoGP season was

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez made a late surge to the head of the times on the second day of testing in Thailand, beating factory Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa. Pedrosa sat at the top of the times for the bulk of

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP has agreed to soak the track on the final day of Qatar pre-season testing next month to give riders the chance to sample the Losail circuit in the wet. The test will give the riders the chance to evaluate how

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi has urged Yamaha to cure ‘worrying’ issues with its MotoGP electronics, and admits he is “not optimistic” for 2018’s opening grands prix if it cannot be resolved. The veteran Italian – who turned 39 on day one of the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says he is finding it “difficult” to make a choice on which Ducati MotoGP fairing to use after sampling a new version in testing in Thailand. Last year’s championship runner-up concluded the first day of running at the Buriram

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow edged out Suzuki’s Alex Rins to top the opening day of MotoGP’s second pre-season test of the year in Thailand. On MotoGP’s first-ever visit to the Buriram circuit – which will play host to the inaugural

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP boss Lin Jarvis “fully expects” Valentino Rossi to sign a new contract to stay with Yamaha in MotoGP beyond this season. Rossi is yet to extend his existing deal, which will ends this year, and his plan is to

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Herve Poncharal says he will try “120%” to convince Tech 3’s partners to take Jonas Folger back for the 2019 MotoGP season, if the German is able to return. Folger was diagnosed with Gilbert’s syndrome last year and missed the final

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo is likely to have to accept a pay cut if he wishes to remain at Ducati in 2019, sporting director Paolo Ciabatti says. Although Ducati has made it clear its intention is to keep both riders

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM rider Pol Espargaro will not take part in this week’s Thailand MotoGP test following his high-speed crash during the opening test of the year at Sepang. Espargaro sat out the third day of running in Malaysia last month following his

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda’s Dani Pedrosa says he has been trying over the winter to replicate the cold and wet conditions he struggled with in MotoGP last season. Pedrosa’s small stature has often resulted in him struggling to generate tyre temperature in wet or

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP sporting director Paolo Ciabatti says Pramac rider Danilo Petrucci should be “smart” and look for a factory ride elsewhere for the 2019 season. Petrucci revealed last month that the 2018 season would be his last with the satellite Pramac

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez says he has already commenced talks about renewing his factory Honda contract. Like the majority of riders on the MotoGP grid, Marquez is out of contract at the end of the 2018 season and has been

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi’s assessment of Yamaha’s 2018 MotoGP bike is more valuable than his team-mate Maverick Vinales’, team manager Massimo Meregalli has claimed. After an encouraging first two days of Sepang testing, both Rossi and Vinales struggled for pace on the final

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two-time MotoGP champion Casey Stoner says factory Yamaha riders Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales have to shoulder some blame for the manufacturer’s struggles in 2017. Vinales began the 2017 season with three wins from the first five races and led the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP promoter Dorna Sports has launched its new all-electric support class, the FIM MotoE World Cup. In a launch event in Rome on Tuesday morning, energy firm Enel was confirmed as the title sponsor for the series, and the racing version

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow says Honda’s new MotoGP bike has improved in areas the riders asked for. Crutchlow, who is riding a 2018-spec LCR Honda this season alongside full factory riders Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa, ended last week’s Sepang test third overall.

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Malaysian rookie Hafizh Syahrin has joined Tech3 Yamaha for the upcoming MotoGP pre-season test at Buriram, ahead of the team making a “final decision” on its 2018 line-up. Tech3 has found itself needing a late-notice replacement for Jonas Folger, who had

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tom Luthi has admitted his longer-than-usual Moto2 career is making his 2018 MotoGP adaptation challenging. This season the 31-year-old is finally joining the premier class having raced in Moto2 since its inception in 2010 and in its predecessor 250cc for three

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New winglets were trialled by Ducati, Honda and Yamaha in the recent Sepang MotoGP test as the teams built up the mileage on their 2018 bikes. In this clip from Motorsport.tv’s The Flying Lap, technical expert Craig Scarborough explains why a

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hafizh Syahrin looks set for imminent confirmation as Jonas Folger’s substitute at Tech3 Yamaha for the 2018 MotoGP season, after the Malaysian rider was officially replaced on the Moto2 grid. Tech3 has been in a frantic search for a new rider

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seven grands prix in the 2018 MotoGP season are set to be shortened in distance, Autosport has learned. This decision has been taken following suggestions by some riders in the Safety Commission, where discussions over excessive race lengths had been taking

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Casey Stoner says he “expected more” from fellow MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo in his debut season with Ducati last year. Lorenzo made a high-profile switch from Yamaha to Ducati for 2017, but he struggled to adapt to the Italian machine,

Tech3 Yamaha team principal Herve Poncharal admits he is “struggling” to find a sufficiently “exciting” replacement for the unwell Jonas Folger for the 2018 MotoGP season. The team drafted in former Aspar and Pramac Ducati rider Yonny Hernandez for the opening test of the year at Sepang, but the Colombian has a contract to race

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo reckons Ducati’s 2018 bike can still be significantly improved, despite the Spaniard topping the Sepang MotoGP pre-season test with a fastest ever lap of the Malaysian circuit. Lorenzo set an unofficial new lap record at the Malaysian circuit on

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 rider Johann Zarco will use the 2016 Yamaha chassis again at the next MotoGP test, having swapped back to it for the final day of this week’s Sepang running. As Yamaha’s satellite team, Tech3 traditionally runs the previous season’s chassis

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM rider Pol Espargaro feels “lucky” to have avoided a serious injury following a crash on the second day of Sepang MotoGP pre-season testing. The Spaniard locked up approaching the Turn 4 right-hander during Monday’s test session and fell from his

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi admitted his Yamaha team was left worried by a muted showing on the final day of MotoGP’s first 2018 pre-season test at Sepang. Rossi was second – 0.035s behind pace-setting team-mate Maverick Vinales – on Monday and declared it