Jorge Lorenzo says he is prepared to help Ducati team-mate Andrea Dovizioso’s MotoGP title chances before the end of the season, but he feels the time has not come yet. Dovizioso leads the standings with six races to go following his fourth win of the season at Silverstone, with Honda’s Marc Marquez and Yamaha’s Maverick

Seven-time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi has been discharged from hospital and will continue his rehabilitation from injury at home. Rossi had suffered tibia and fibula fractures in his right leg on Thursday in a motocross training accident. His leg was successfully operated on overnight on Thursday at the Ospedali Riuniti in Ancona. After staying at

Valentino Rossi will need to rest for “30 to 40 days” according to the doctor that operated on the MotoGP rider’s broken leg in the early hours of Friday morning. Rossi sustained fractures to the tibia and fibula in his right leg in a motocross accident in Italy on Thursday, and he underwent a one-hour

MotoGP star Valentino Rossi underwent surgery on his broken leg in Italy overnight following his motocross crash on Thursday. The Yamaha rider suffered displaced fractures of the tibia and fibula of his right leg, the one he seriously injured in a crash at Mugello in 2010. After being diagnosed with the fractures he was transferred

MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi has suffered a broken leg in a motocross training accident. Rossi sustained the injury to both the tibia and fibula of the right leg that he previously broke in his high-speed practice crash at Mugello in 2010. In a statement, Rossi’s Yamaha team said: “Following an enduro training accident on Thursday,

MotoGP championship leader Andrea Dovizioso believes his title rivals doubted him and Ducati prior to his most recent victory in Sunday’s British Grand Prix. Dovizioso worked his way through from sixth on the grid at Silverstone to take his fourth win of the season, capitalising on Marc Marquez’s engine failure to retake the lead in

Valentino Rossi topped the post-Czech Grand Prix MotoGP test at Brno on Monday, narrowly outpacing Marc Marquez at the very end. Yamaha rider Rossi set his 1m55.162s benchmark with a minute left on the clock, edging Marquez, who had held first place for the final three of the test’s eight hours, by 0.018 seconds. Rossi’s

Aleix Espargaro wants a change to MotoGP’s ‘flag-to-flag’ rules following a “scary” crash with Andrea Iannone in the pits during Sunday’s Czech Grand Prix. Aprilia rider Espargaro was hit with a three-place penalty during the wet-dry Brno race for an unsafe release from his bike swap, which caused Suzuki’s Iannone to take evasive action and

Alvaro Bautista will remain with the Aspar Ducati squad for the 2018 MotoGP season. The 32-year-old Spaniard, a former factory rider at Suzuki and Aprilia, joined satellite Ducati outfit Aspar at the start of 2017, riding a year-old GP16 bike. Bautista currently sits 11th in the standings, having taken four top-10 finishes and a best

The Barcelona circuit has agreed to carry out resurfacing and track modifications in order to ensure it remains on the 2018 MotoGP calendar, its place having been under threat. The new chicane created after Moto2 rider Luis Salom was killed in a 2016 practice crash proved controversial during last month’s Catalunya Grand Prix, as did

Maverick Vinales says Yamaha’s MotoGP bike has lost power in recent rounds, and suggests the manufacturer has become “confused” by its electronics set-up. Vinales led the championship by more than a race win’s worth of points after the Mugello round at the start of June, but relinquished that advantage over the three subsequent rounds and

KTM rider Pol Espargaro says the manufacturer can be “really proud” of what it has achieved in the first half of its maiden MotoGP season. The Austrian manufacturer made its full-time debut in the premier class at the start of 2017, scoring its first points at the second round of the campaign in Argentina. It

Tech3 Yamaha rider Jonas Folger believes his breakthrough ride to second in last weekend’s MotoGP German Grand Prix can act as a springboard for similar results in the future. Folger pushed Honda’s Marc Marquez during Sunday’s Sachsenring race, enjoying a five-lap spell in the lead and staying within one second of the reigning champion before

Jack Miller is set to switch to the Pramac Ducati MotoGP team for 2018, taking Scott Redding’s ride, Autosport has learned. Miller’s three-year factory Honda expires at the end of this year, meaning he had to reach a deal with Marc VDS directly. He instead he took up an option to join Pramac, which is

Marc Marquez’s clash with Maverick Vinales in Sachsenring qualifying shows he is “playing” with his MotoGP rivals and will win the title, according to Honda stablemate Cal Crutchlow. Vinales had to abort a flying lap after contact with Marquez in German Grand Prix qualifying. Reigning champion Marquez, who went on to win the race and

Suzuki legend Kevin Schwantz says Andrea Iannone just “needs to get on with the job” after a dismal first half of the 2017 MotoGP season. Iannone joined Suzuki for this year after two seasons at the works Ducati team that included a race win, but he has taken only four points finishes – none higher

Sachsenring MotoGP race winner Marc Marquez says he did not expect to lead the points standings heading into the summer break. The reigning champion extended his unbeaten run of premier class German Grand Prix victories to five on Sunday, beating Tech3 Yamaha rookie Jonas Folger. Marquez’s win, his second of the season, also vaulted him

Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo says he was braced for “a much worse” MotoGP German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring, despite finishing outside the top 10. Three-time champion Lorenzo started Sunday’s race sixth on the grid and ran as high as third early on, behind the leading works Hondas of Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa. Lorenzo

Valentino Rossi says he was relieved to finish in the top five of MotoGP’s German Grand Prix given the problems of his Sachsenring weekend. The Yamaha rider admitted to being “in trouble” after Friday practice in both dry and wet conditions, and having found enough speed on Saturday morning to qualify for Q2 he was

Pramac Ducati rider Scott Redding described Sunday’s German Grand Prix the “worst race of my career” amid uncertainty about his MotoGP future. Redding started 23rd of of 24 riders and made little progress in the Sachsenring race, ending up a full minute behind race winner Marc Marquez and only narrowly fending off Alex Rins to