Without Marc Marquez's mistakes, last Sunday's Spanish MotoGP season-opener would probably have ended with Honda's reigning champion taking victory over the Yamahas of Fabio Quartararo and Maverick Vinales.
Jack Miller's confirmed switch to the factory Ducati MotoGP team, Valentino Rossi's talks with Petronas Yamaha and rumours Pol Espargaro will take over from rookie Alex Marquez at Repsol Honda.
Casey Stoner, one of the most naturally talented riders ever seen in MotoGP, hopes to become more involved in the sport in future and 'give back' some of the knowledge and expertise gained during a stellar grand prix career.
Riding for Ducati in MotoGP is a dream for many riders, with even world champions Nicky Hayden, Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo tempted away from their title-winning factories to try for success on the Desmosedici.
Ducati has officially confirmed that Jack Miller will step-up to its factory MotoGP team for the 2021 season. The much-rumoured agreement is in the form of a one-year deal, plus an option for 2022.
Jack Miller's Pramac Ducati team manager Francesco Guidotti has added further weight to rumours that the Australian is set to move up to the Official Ducati team for the 2021 MotoGP season.
- Will Jack Miller be a factory Ducati team rider in 2021? According to GPOne.com the Australian will move up from the Pramac team next season and join either Andrea Dovizioso or Danilo Petrucci, who are now in a head-to-head for the remaining place at the Official team.
Joan Mir admits the MotoGP technical freeze is 'good news' for Suzuki after such a strong pre-season. But the long covid-19 layoff means, at least from a bike fitness perspective, he predicts Jack Miller could be the man to beat when the championship finally starts!
- Aprilia technical director Romano Albesiano believes “every team manager would want Andrea Iannone as a rider” following speculation around a potential return to Pramac. Iannone is currently serving an 18-month anti-doping ban which he is set to protest at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Jack Miller may have been the only Ducati rider in the top nine on the final day of MotoGP pre-season testing in Qatar but fellow GP20 riders Danilo Petrucci, Andrea Dovizioso and Francesco Bagnaia were all buoyed by the results of a race simulation.
Francesco Bagnaia believes upgrading to the Ducati GP20 will not only benefit his weaknesses but is also an improvement on the Italian manufacturer’s own key areas.
Jack Miller has given the thumbs up to Ducati’s new engine as he marched back the top of the speed trap at Sepang and feels the extra power hasn’t come at the expense of rideability with the GP20.
Jack Miller has become the latest sports star to raise funds to help the victims of the Australian bushfire crisis by auctioning one of his 2018 MotoGP helmets.
Ducati’s sporting director Paolo Ciabatti says the entire team has faith in Danilo Petrucci rediscovering his early 2019 season form and dismissed his downturn in results as connected to his 2020 contract renewal.
With a list so subjective to opinion it is fair to state this isn’t a definitive record of the decade but a snapshot of the times which shaped the sport and its stars going into the next decade and beyond. These moments act as the essential chapters in the history of MotoGP in the 2010s.