
The phony war is finally over. The last MotoGP test has finished, with riders completing their final day of testing at Qatar. The next time the MotoGP grid assembles, it will be for something of real value: race wins, and world championship points. Did the last day of the test offer any clear...
The music has stopped for the MotoGP riders, with all of them now having taken their seats for next year. That does not mean that contract season is over, however. We are in the middle of another migration, this time of crew chiefs and mechanics. It all started with Jorge Lorenzo. The Movistar...
On paper, things are close at Jerez. At the end of the first day, the top eight riders are all within half a second of each other. The first fourteen are within a second. You would normally see the kind of tightly bunched times on a Moto2 result sheet, not MotoGP, as former Moto3 and Moto2 crew...
PBM Aprilia's Michael Laverty is still looking for a little more edge grip from his GPMS-framed MotoGP steed but said that after the weekend's test at Qatar, they are much faster than they were last season. The Irishman, who enters his second season in the premier class, spent most of the three...
We are pleased to have Shelina Moreda writing Asphalt & Rubber's newest column, "She'z Racing at Suzuka", which will follow her and Melissa Paris' venture into racing at the Suzuka 4-Hour endurance race later this month. The American Duo are making the first all-female race team at the Suzuka...
It is not often that journalists get to speak to team managers at length, but test days provide the perfect opportunity to do just that. So it was that a small group of journalists attending the tests sat down with Suzuki team boss Davide Brivio to discuss progress so far. There was a lot to...
Honda Racing Corporation Press Release: On day-1 of the final MotoGP pre-season test the track opened at 4:00 p.m. local time, but most riders waited until sunset to get started, so as to find similar conditions to the race weekend. Marquez headed out at half past five, Pedrosa a couple of hours...