Ducati

Given Valentino Rossi's autobiography was titled ‘What if I had never tried it?’ it’s unsurprising that the Italian didn’t publicly regret his ill-fated decision to leave Yamaha for Ducati in MotoGP.

The 2023 MotoE grid got its first taste of the new Ducati ‘V21L’ electric racer during the start of a three-day official test at Jerez.

On paper, Casey Stoner and the Ducati Desmosedici were a match made in heaven during the 2007 MotoGP season.

Ducati’s perfect start to its WorldSBK title defence and eight bikes in MotoGP are among a wide variety of topics on this week’s Crash.net MotoGP podcast featuring Keith Huewen.

Not only is Ducati’s reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia confident of avoiding last year’s slow start to the new MotoGP season, but he’s also not afraid of any wet weather.

After five seasons as a Ducati MotoGP rider, Jack Miller threw his leg over the KTM RC16 during the Valencia post-race test.

World champions in the Moto3 class, Pedro Acosta and Izan Guevara are already being tipped as future MotoGP stars.

In terms of race wins, Japanese manufacturers suffered their worst season of the ‘MotoGP’ era in 2022.

Jack Miller’s KTM move sets up the possibility of the Australian making history as the first rider to win ‘MotoGP’ races on three different brands of bike.

Pramac Ducati starts its first full season of Prima title sponsorship with this 2023 MotoGP livery for Johann Zarco and Jorge Martin.

The MotoGP race weekend schedule gets its biggest shake-up in recent memory with the addition of a Saturday Sprint race and reduction in free practice for 2023.

If Ducati's MotoGP rivals hoped that the new-for-2023 front ride-height ban might cause a drop in performance for the Desmosedicis, they are likely to be disappointed.

Having already duelled for race victories last season, reigning MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia expects an ‘intense’ battle with new factory Ducati team-mate Enea Bastianini in 2023.

The MotoGP World Championship has produced four different title winners - Marc Marquez, Joan Mir, Fabio Quartararo and Francesco Bagnaia - on four different brands of bike, in the past four seasons.

All six manufacturers won MotoGP races over the past two seasons, but some feel the technical sophistication of the current machines has reduced rider impact.

Winning the MotoGP title is an enormous task, but only a few riders have then been able to successfully defend their crown the following season.

This is the new factory Ducati livery with which reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia will try to defend his MotoGP title in 2023.

Francesco Bagnaia is to become the first MotoGP champion since Casey Stoner to race with the #1 plate.

There’s no sugar coating the fact that 2022 was a punishing season for Alex Marquez, who suffered the worst results of his premier-class career during his final season on Honda machinery.

While everyone starts a new MotoGP season ‘equal, from zero’, new Gresini Ducati rider Alex Marquez tips brother Marc as the 2023 title favourite.

Fabio di Giannantonio has played down the sombre social media post following last year’s Malaysian round and insists he is ‘feeling great and the energy is super high’ ahead of his second MotoGP season.

Following a spectacular debut season with Ducati, Gresini has unveiled its 2023 MotoGP livery for new signing Alex Marquez and team-mate Fabio di Giannantonio.

After a ‘big fight’, front ride-height devices are officially banned from the 2023 MotoGP season.

When Johann Zarco saw his Pramac team members lining up for a ride on the Ducati two-seater, on the eve of last October’s Malaysian MotoGP weekend, he jumped into his leathers and joined the queue!