
Sepang Test Two, Day Three: Final Times Yamaha Factory Racing's Valentino Rossi and Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa concluded the second Sepang MotoGP™ test with an identical 1'59.999 lap time, as preparations for the 2014 season continued in Malaysia. Meanwhile, after testing concluded the Ducati...
It has been a long and confusing wait for the 2014 MotoGP season to begin. An awful lot has happened since the MotoGP bikes were rolled into their packing crates after the Valencia test and shipped back to the factories and workshops from whence they came. There have been shock announcements,...
Who starts the 2015 MotoGP season as favorite for the championship? The final test at Qatar will give us a much clearer picture of where the factories and riders stand than the last two tests in Sepang. That is in part due to the fact that the factories have had time between the Sepang tests and...
Riders and teams were greeted by another hot and humid morning in Malaysia for the final day of the Sepang 2 MotoGP™ test. The weather conditions have played a huge part during this test, with track temperatures approaching 60 degrees at the peak of the day. This means that there simply hasn't...
The test ban is over, and the MotoGP season is about to get underway. Bikes are already circulating, as the test riders put the first versions of the 2014 models through a shakedown to ensure that everything is in place, and working the way the engineers intended. In a few hours, we get the...
Depending on who you ask, MotoGP's summer break is either too short, or too long. For the fans, three full weekends without MotoGP is a painfully long time, though both World Superbikes and BSB have done a pretty good job of making MotoGP's absence much more bearable. For the teams, riders and...
This is the second part of our two-part series on how the silly season for next year's MotoGP rider line up may play out. If you missed the first part, you can catch up with the situation in the Honda and Yamaha factory teams here. Up until late in the 2013 season, changes in the rider lineup...