Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki should prioritise finding a replacement for Andrea Iannone for the 2019 MotoGP season, says grand prix motorcycling legend Kevin Schwantz. After four seasons with Ducati Iannone switched to Suzuki for the 2017 campaign, but endured difficulties with the GSX-RR and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati is prepared for a “difficult negotiation” to retain Andrea Dovizioso for the 2019 MotoGP season, according to the team’s sporting director Paolo Ciabatti. Dovizioso enjoyed a breakthrough campaign with Ducati in 2017, winning six grands prix and taking the championship

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aleix Espargaro says Aprilia may need to adjust its expectations for the 2018 MotoGP season after a turbulent campaign last year. In his first season with Aprilia, Espargaro finished 15th place in the championship standings, with a best result of sixth

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki’s rival MotoGP manufacturers have expressed their support of the rule that will allow the squad to regain its technical concessions for 2018. After a difficult 2017 season in which it failed to score a single podium, Suzuki once again has

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha would choose Valentino Rossi’s Team VR46 operation over Tech3 as its sole MotoGP satellite squad if given the option in future, claims Herve Poncharal. Rossi, who turns 39 in February and is out of contract after this season, has been

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two-time MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner will return to action when he tests for Ducati at the Sepang circuit later this month. The Australian, who last rode the Italian manufacturer’s bike at Valencia in September last year, will join fellow test

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez will need to adopt a lower risk riding style in future or could eventually suffer a bad injury, says grand prix motorcycling legend Kevin Schwantz. Marquez suffered 27 crashes in 2017, more than any other rider

Andrea Dovizioso says it will be difficult for Ducati to fix all its weaknesses in time for the 2018 MotoGP season, but he expects to fight for the title again. The Italian enjoyed a breakthrough 2017 campaign, winning six races and taking the championship fight with Marc Marquez down to the final race of the

Marc VDS MotoGP team principal Michael Bartholemy has blamed a lack of support from Honda for his outfit losing Jack Miller for 2018. Miller moved up to the premier class on a factory Honda contract after coming close to winning the 2014 Moto3 title, and spent the past two years at Marc VDS, scoring an

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Bradley Smith admits stepping up from a satellite team to the factory KTM MotoGP outfit in 2017 was far “more demanding physically and mentally” than he ever anticipated. After four years with the customer Tech3 Yamaha team, Smith moved to spearhead

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati has called MotoGP’s late decision to change its testing restrictions “disrespectful”, after the Italian manufacturer had to alter is arrangements to suit the new rules. It was announced in October that for the 2018 season only three of the five

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow says both he and MotoGP champion Marc Marquez are asking for “exactly the same” from Honda in 2018, with both riders targeting a more neutral bike. Two-time MotoGP race winner Crutchlow has ridden with LCR Honda

Tech3 boss Herve Poncharal has warned KTM could dominate Moto2 in the future as other manufacturers will not be able to compete with “a real factory”. KTM teamed up with Ajo Motorsport, champion with Johann Zarco in the past two years, to enter Moto2 in 2017. The Austrian brand’s lead rider Miguel Oliveira was a

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech 3 boss Herve Poncharal has warned KTM could dominate Moto2 in the future as other manufacturers will not be able to compete with “a real factory”. KTM teamed up with Ajo Motorsport, champion with Johann Zarco in the past two

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki MotoGP boss Davide Brivio says his team’s poor results this year showed it “missed” having a satellite team to share data with and speed up development. Since its MotoGP return in 2015 Suzuki has only had its two factory bikes

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP team boss Lin Jarvis says the team would have still encountered the same problems that hobbled its title challenge this season even if it had kept Jorge Lorenzo as a rider. After nine seasons at Yamaha, three-time premier class

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Scott Redding admits he had no emotional attachment to the Pramac Ducati team he has raced with for the last two MotoGP seasons. The British rider moves to Aprilia for next year in place of his countryman Sam Lowes, having been

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Aspar MotoGP squad will be renamed Angel Nieto Team in tribute to the late 13-time motorcycling world champion. Grand prix motorcycling legend Nieto died in August as a result of the brain damage he suffered in a quad bike accident

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez would have won the 2017 MotoGP title even if he was riding for Ducati, according to Max Biaggi. Honda rider Marquez saw off a stern challenge from Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso this season to claim a fourth premier class title

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP veteran Andrea Dovizioso’s title challenge in 2017 shows that young riders should be given more time to start performing, according to Valentino Rossi. Dovizioso made his MotoGP debut in 2008 but despite having spent all bar two of his seasons

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM test rider Mika Kallio admits he is disappointed to have missed out on a full-time seat in MotoGP with the Austrian marque after it opted to retain Bradley Smith. Finnish rider Kallio, who last raced full-time in MotoGP in 2010

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kiefer Racing’s deal to run KTM bikes in next year’s Moto2 season has fallen through after the pull-out of an investor, rider Dominique Aegerter has revealed. Following the sudden death of team co-founder Stefan Kiefer during the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow was left baffled after MotoGP chose to keep the British Grand Prix at Silverstone instead of returning it to Donington Park. Silverstone replaced Donington as the British Grand Prix host venue for 2010, but Donington was

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez says the only reason he can imagine leaving Honda is if he needed a change to restore his motivation. Marquez has spent his entire premier class career up to now with Honda, winning four MotoGP titles

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia MotoGP boss Romano Albesiano admits the Italian marque’s 2017 points tally should leave it feeling “depressed”. Aprilia enjoyed a strong start to its third season back in MotoGP, with Aleix Espargaro – who joined from Suzuki – taking the heavily

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says he thought being Yamaha MotoGP team-mate to multiple champion Valentino Rossi would be harder than it proved to be. Vinales switched to Yamaha for the 2017 season after two years with Suzuki and rapidly established himself as pre-season

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former 250cc racer Alex Debon has joined the coaching team of Ducati MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo for 2018. 
 Triple MotoGP champion Lorenzo endured a difficult first season with Ducati in 2017, finishing a lowly seventh in the championship and scoring

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales admits he was too easily swayed by the opinions of others within the Yamaha MotoGP squad and that he should have been “stricter” with his team this year. Pre-season favourite Vinales raced into an early championship lead with three

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Herve Poncharal has admitted that his satellite MotoGP outfit Tech3 beating the factory Yamahas on several occasions this season created some “uncomfortable” situations. Works riders Maverick Vinales and Valentino Rossi both endured a frustrating 2017 campaign, while rookie Johann Zarco shone

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP race winner and three-time World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss will return to full-time competition at the age of 48 in the 2018 Australian Superbike Championship. Bayliss will ride a Ducati 1299 Panigale R Final Edition for the DesmoSport squad he