Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP promoter Dorna has revealed the supplier for the all-electric support class that will commence in 2019 and be known as the FIM Moto-e World Cup. Italian manufacturer Energica will be the supplier to the new championship, which is set to

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM MotoGP motorsport director Pit Beirer says dropping Bradley Smith for the 2018 season due to his poor results this year would have been “not fair”. Smith’s consistent failure to match team-mate Pol Espargaro during the season had generated speculation that

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow claims he has “exactly the same speed” as 2017 MotoGP runner-up Andrea Dovizioso, and says he would have been “really close” to the Italian had they remained team-mates. Crutchlow spent two seasons alongside Dovizioso, first at the Tech3 Yamaha

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki MotoGP boss Davide Brivio admits it took his team most of 2017 to recover from mistakes that resulted from its change of riders last winter. Suzuki went into 2017 with an all-new line-up in Andrea Iannone and rookie Alex Rins,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 MotoGP boss Herve Poncharal admits it will be “very difficult” to keep lead rider Johann Zarco at the team beyond 2018. Zarco enjoyed a breakthrough rookie season in 2017, beating the struggling factory Yamahas of Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM test rider Mika Kallio is set to enter five MotoGP races as a wildcard next season. After giving the KTM RC16 its race debut at Valencia last year, Kallio made a further four showings across the 2017 campaign, racing at

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A repeat of this year’s winless MotoGP campaign would be “unacceptable” for Jorge Lorenzo, his Ducati crew chief Cristian Gabarrini has suggested. Lorenzo endured a tough learning season with the Italian marque, taking only three podiums and for the first time

Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Tito Rabat says his first tests with his new Avintia Ducati MotoGP team reminded him of his Moto2 title-winning heyday. After winning the intermediate class title in 2014 and finishing third the following year, Rabat has had two difficult MotoGP seasons with

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi has confirmed that Yamaha’s 2018 MotoGP challenger will be based on the 2016 version of its M1, following this week’s private test in Sepang. The Italian was joined by team-mate Maverick Vinales and Tech3 rider Johann Zarco in Malaysia,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Forward Racing has announced that it will use Suter bikes in the 2018 Moto2 season, despite Suter recently announcing its departure from the series. Suter has reversed its decision to leave the MotoGP’s Moto2 as Forward Racing has announced it will

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jonas Folger should be fully fit by Christmas, and therefore ready for 2018 MotoGP pre-season testing, says his Tech3 Yamaha team boss Herve Poncharal. Folger enjoyed a promising rookie season before he was forced to withdraw from the final four grands

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha has completed two days of private testing at Sepang, bringing an end to this year’s MotoGP on-track action. Factory pair Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales were joined by Tech3 satellite rider Johann Zarco, who also worked closely with the factory

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda and Yamaha have dismissed reports they are interested in poaching Andrea Dovizioso from Ducati for the 2019 MotoGP season, despite the Italian’s sensational form this year. Dovizioso scored six race victories this season and was Marc Marquez’s main championship challenger,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki’s Andrea Iannone was fastest among a depleted contingent of MotoGP riders on the final day of a combined test at Jerez alongside World Superbike teams. Only nine MotoGP riders were in action on Friday, as the works Ducati team along

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Swiss manufacturer Suter has announced it is withdrawing from MotoGP’s Moto2 category with immediate effect. Suter has been a mainstay of grand prix motorcycling’s middle category since Moto2 replaced the 250cc class in 2010, supplying Marc Marquez during his title-winning season

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso set the pace on the second day of MotoGP’s Jerez test, beating the pole record set by team-mate Jorge Lorenzo in 2015. Lorenzo was first to beat Suzuki rider Andrea Iannone’s Wednesday benchmark of 1m38.280s towards the end

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki rider Andrea Iannone topped the opening day of MotoGP testing in Jerez, edging out Cal Crutchlow by less than a tenth of a second. This week’s Jerez test, which runs from Wednesday to Friday, is being attended by the majority

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Staying with Honda will “always be” four-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez’s preferred choice over switching to a rival manufacturer, according to his manager Emilio Alzamora. Marquez secured his fourth premier class title in five years this season, and has only competed

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Scott Redding says he expected Aprilia’s MotoGP bike to be “easier to ride” than the Ducati he has switched from and finds it “very demanding”. Former Pramac Ducati rider Redding is replacing Sam Lowes at Aprilia for 2018. Redding ended last

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new fairing Yamaha introduced in the Valencia MotoGP test shows banning winglets last year was “a farce” designed to hamper Ducati, says Andrea Dovizioso. MotoGP banned aerodynamic winglets, which had been pioneered by Ducati, at the end of 2016 on

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez is now the only rider on the grid who can consider himself an “alien”, believes Honda stablemate Cal Crutchlow. Marquez became the youngest-ever rider to score a fourth premier class title last weekend at Valencia. The

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales admits he was puzzled by why he was uncompetitive on the second day of Valencia’s post-season MotoGP test on Wednesday having topped the times on day one. Vinales rode both the 2016 and ’17-spec Yamahas on Tuesday and reported

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo reckons Ducati is behind its rival manufacturers in terms of developing its bike for the 2018 MotoGP season. Ducati was focusing on minor changes during the two-day Valencia MotoGP post-season test, while Honda tried 2018 prototype engine and chassis

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alberto Puig, the boss of the British and Asia Talent Cup championships, is the main candidate to replace Livio Suppo as the leader of Honda’s MotoGP team. Suppo had been at the helm of the Honda operation since he joined from

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP’s newly-crowned four-time champion Marc Marquez recorded the fastest lap of the post-season test at Valencia on the second and final day of running. Marquez established himself at the top of the timing screens an hour and a half into the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez says his 2017 MotoGP championship battle with Andrea Dovizioso has taught him not to underestimate any of the riders in the category in future. Ducati rider Dovizioso emerged as Marquez’s main rival this year, taking the championship battle to

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 rider Johann Zarco says he felt no “negative things” riding Yamaha’s much-maligned 2017 bike for the first time in the Valencia post-season test. Zarco used a 2016-spec bike to great effect in his rookie premier class campaign this year and

Valentino Rossi hopes he will get another opportunity to trial Yamaha’s prototype 2018 MotoGP engine in the Valencia test, having suffered a huge crash after using it for just two laps. Rossi went off at the Turn 10 right-hander two hours into the first day of post-season testing, with the high-speed shunt leaving his bike

Maverick Vinales was quickest on the opening day of MotoGP post-season testing at Valencia with a 2016-spec Yamaha, as his team-mate Valentino Rossi suffered a big crash early on. While 2017 champion Marc Marquez led for the majority of the day, first Johann Zarco and then Vinales demoted the Honda rider as the final hour

Ducati MotoGP programme general manager Gigi Dall’Igna says telling Jorge Lorenzo to give up his position to Andrea Dovizioso during the Valencia finale was the team’s “misunderstanding”. Lorenzo was running ahead of title-chasing team-mate Dovizioso in fourth during the Valencia decider and was given the coded message ‘Suggested Mapping 8’ but declined to move aside.