Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Moto2 frontrunner Alex Marquez will test the Marc VDS Honda MotoGP bike at Jerez later this month, the team has confirmed. Marquez, brother of four-time premier class champion Marc, is slated to ride the MotoGP bike for a day and a

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Newly-crowned MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has revealed that he suffered hair loss and stress early in the 2017 season. In the first six races of the year, Marquez crashed out twice and took only two podiums – leaving him 37 points

Honda has announced the team principal of its works MotoGP squad, Livio Suppo, is leaving the company. Suppo will depart MotoGP entirely in order to “pursue new challenges” according to Honda. “I thought at the end of the day it was the right decision to leave now,” Suppo said in a Valencia press conference on

Johann Zarco says he was asked by Marc Marquez’s mother ahead of Sunday’s Valencia MotoGP title decider to “take it easy” and not risk a collision with the eventual champion. Marquez and Zarco qualified first and second for the Valencia Grand Prix, in which Marquez only needed 11th place to beat Andrea Dovizioso to the

Yamaha MotoGP riders Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales both reverted to 2016 chassis for Sunday’s Valencia season finale. After Rossi and Vinales qualified only seventh and 13th respectively, the works Yamaha squad made a last-minute decision to switch to the same year-old bike specification Tech3 satellite rider Johann Zarco had used to take second on

Marc Marquez says the incident that nearly jeopardised his 2017 MotoGP title hopes in the season finale at Valencia was brought on by fears of a collision with Johann Zarco. Honda rider Marquez only needed to finish in the top 11 to make sure of his fourth premier-class title in five seasons. He appeared content

Defeated MotoGP title contender Andrea Dovizioso says he didn’t feel he was held up by Ducati team-mate Jorge Lorenzo in the Valencia season finale. In a race he had to win to stand any chance of beating Marc Marquez to the title, Dovizioso crashed out on lap 25 of 30, just a handful of corners

Marc Marquez sealed his fourth MotoGP title with after finishing third in the season finale at Valencia won by Dani Pedrosa, as Andrea Dovizioso’s championship hopes ended with a late crash. Dovizioso needed to win the race and hope polesitter Marquez couldn’t finish inside the top 11, and the Italian made quick progress from ninth

Silverstone will retain its place on the MotoGP calendar after signing a fresh three-year deal to be the home of the British motorcycle grand prix. The Northamptonshire track’s place on next year’s schedule had been thrown into doubt when a draft calendar had been released with a ‘TBA’ next to the British round in September.

Jorge Lorenzo has ruled out backing up other riders in a bid to help Ducati team-mate Andrea Dovizioso beat Marc Marquez to the MotoGP title in Sunday’s Valencia showdown. Dovizioso has to win the race and hope Marquez finishes outside the top 11 to win the title, but the Italian’s hopes took a dent during

Marc Marquez will start the title-deciding MotoGP season finale at Valencia from pole position despite a late crash in qualifying, while championship rival Andrea Dovizioso was only ninth. Honda man Marquez, who only needs a top-11 finish on Sunday to guarantee his fourth premier class title, set the early pace with a 1m30.424s, before improving

Championship favourite Marc Marquez says he was baffled by his crash at the end of second practice for MotoGP’s season-closing Valencia Grand Prix. The Honda rider fell at Turn 2 at the end of the afternoon session – his 26th crash of the season – and ended up fifth-fastest, two places behind title rival Andrea

KTM rider Pol Espargaro will start this weekend’s MotoGP season finale at Valencia from the pitlane as punishment for exceeding his engine allocation. MotoGP rules dictate each rider can only use a maximum of seven engines per season, although KTM and Aprilia are permitted to use nine as part of a package of technical concessions.

Ducati’s Jorge Lorenzo was fastest in the second practice session for MotoGP’s Valencia season finale, which ended with title favourite Marc Marquez crashing. Honda rider Marquez, who was vying with Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa to top the opening day of practice, fell at Turn 2 just as the chequered flag fell. Marquez was OK, having

Marc Marquez says “nobody will remember” if he claims the 2017 MotoGP world championship with fewer race wins than title rival Andrea Dovizioso. Honda rider Marquez comes to the final race of the season at Valencia this weekend with a comfortable 21-point advantage, meaning a finish anywhere inside the top 11 would be good enough

Andrea Dovizioso says Marc Marquez’s “struggles to restrain himself” in races gives him hope he can still secure the 2017 MotoGP crown in Valencia this weekend. Ducati rider Dovizioso is 21 points adrift of Marquez in the standings, which means he must win and hope that Marquez does not finish inside the top 11. While

The health problem that sidelined MotoGP rookie Jonas Folger from the final races of 2017 and led to his body ‘shutting down’ has now been diagnosed. Folger has been out of action since what was initially presumed to be a case of mononucleosis ruled him out of the MotoGP race weekend at Motegi. The 24-year-old

Casey Stoner believes he would have been able to beat Marc Marquez had he not chosen to retire from MotoGP before the Spaniard stepped up to the top class. Two-time world champion Stoner decided to hang up his helmet at the end of the 2012 season, aged just 27, with Marquez taking his place in

Pol Espargaro believes KTM will make “another big step” in 2018, having become a regular top 10 presence in its rookie MotoGP campaign. KTM has had at least one bike in the top 10 in six of the last eight races, with Espargaro now 16th in the points, between Suzuki pair Andrea Iannone and Alex

Andrea Dovizioso’s hopes of clinching a first MotoGP title this weekend at Valencia are slim, but Oriol Puigdemont argues the Ducati rider will leave Spain as a winner regardless Many parallels have been made between this MotoGP season and 2006, when Nicky Hayden defied the odds to beat Valentino Rossi to a premier class title

Michael van der Mark will reprise his role as Jonas Folger’s replacement at Tech 3 Yamaha for next weekend’s MotoGP season finale at Valencia. World Superbike regular van der Mark was handed his premier class debut at Sepang on October 29, with Folger forced to miss the race due to illness. The Dutchman qualified 22nd

Michael van der Mark will reprise his role as Jonas Folger’s replacement at Tech3 Yamaha for next weekend’s MotoGP season finale at Valencia. World Superbike regular van der Mark was handed his premier class debut at Sepang on October 29, with Folger forced to miss the race due to illness. The Dutchman qualified 22nd and

Moto2 regular Jesko Raffin has been denied a slot on the series’ 2018 grid due to a “consistent lack of good results”, Autosport has learned. Swiss rider Raffin is in his third full campaign in the MotoGP support series, riding for the CGBM Evolution squad under the Garage Plus Interwetten banner. The former CEV Moto2

Marc Marquez insists Honda will not use team orders in his MotoGP title decider with Andrea Dovizioso at Valencia. Marquez had his first opportunity to clinch a fourth premier class crown last weekend at Sepang, but could only come fourth as Dovizioso ensured the title race goes to the final round with victory. Dovizioso needs

Johann Zarco should turn down Yamaha’s 2017 MotoGP bike if it is offered to Tech3 next season, says Valentino Rossi. Satellite Tech3 team rider Zarco beat both works Yamahas for the fifth time this season aboard his year-old M1 at Sepang last weekend, finishing third behind Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo. Rossi and factory

Marc VDS Honda 2018 MotoGP signing Tom Luthi has been ruled out of what would have been his first test with the team due to injury. Luthi surrendered the 2017 Moto2 title to his future MotoGP team-mate Franco Morbidelli when he suffered an ankle fracture in a crash in qualifying crash for penultimate round of

Valentino Rossi insists breaking his right leg earlier this season did not ultimately cost him the 2017 MotoGP title. The Yamaha rider was forced to skip his home race at Misano after suffering his injury while training on a motocross bike at the start of September. Despite doctors predicting he would have to rest for

Honda MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa says he expected to go from first to last in the Malaysian Grand Prix when he realised it would be a wet race. Pedrosa edged out Johann Zarco and Andrea Dovizioso to grab a third pole of the season in dry conditions on Saturday at Sepang, but slipped to fifth

Andrea Dovizioso says he did not request the team orders that Ducati implemented during the Malaysian Grand Prix to keep his MotoGP title hopes alive. Dovizioso’s sixth victory of the year at Sepang ensured that the championship goes down to the season finale at Valencia, albeit with Dovizioso trailing Marc Marquez by 21 points with

Marc Marquez admits there was no sense in him pushing to finish higher than fourth in MotoGP’s Malaysian Grand Prix, given his comfortable advantage in the championship. Honda rider Marquez had the opportunity to seal a fourth premier class title with a round to spare at Sepang, but was unable to take the fight to