
Having a test on the Monday after the last race of the season is a rather cruel punishment for the MotoGP riders. The Sunday night after Valencia is usually a rather festive affair, with teams holding parties to mark either the departure of one rider, the arrival of a new one, celebrating...
Dall'Igna: The 2015 Ducati GP15 Will Be "All New" by staff Friday, February 06, 2015 Engineer Gigi Dall'Igna, Ducati Corse General Manager, says that the new 2015 GP15 Ducati MotoGP bike will be all new, featuring a new engine and a new chassis. "It will be completely brand new," he said today...
And so the 2016 MotoGP season is nearly at an end. Though the major honors have been awarded, there are still the final few t's to cross and i's to dot. We have our three champions – Johann Zarco the last to wrap up the title in Moto2 at Sepang. Honda are hot favorites to win the constructors'...
There are two basic ways to report Valencia. One is to think like a race announcer and try to whip up excitement even if there may not be much doubt of the result. The other is to accept that Marc Marquez's 2014 dominance has been the most complete on record, and that he was usually able to win,...
The rain that threatened didn't come, to both the relief and the despair of everyone at the MotoGP test in Valencia. After 18 races, three flyaways, and two days of testing, there were plenty of folk who had been secretly doing rain dances so they could pack up and go home early. As much as we...
The 2015 MotoGP season kicks off tomorrow. On Wednesday, the riders take to the track once again at Sepang to continue the development on the bikes they will be racing this year, and to test out the new updates the engineers have been working on during the winter break. And yet the two most...
"I will pay the copyright." With those words, Marc Marquez acknowledged he had used the same move—running across the dirt in the middle of the Corkscrew—to pass Valentino Rossi on Lap 3 of Sunday's U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca that Rossi had so famously used to stop Casey Stoner...