A shock Sepang victory aside, Enea Bastianini didn’t finish a GP higher than eighth place during his debut season at the factory Ducati team.

Reigning MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia intends to ‘raise the bar more and more’ as he seeks to fend off not only seven fellow Ducati riders but the growing challenge from rival manufacturers.

Marc Marquez has again kept the door open on a potential MotoGP return to Honda.

If a Gresini Ducati rider starts on the top step of the Qatar MotoGP season opener on March 10, Marc Marquez insists it’s more likely to be team-mate and younger brother Alex.

Marc Marquez isn’t ruling out a return of his aggressive Honda riding style, despite a smooth mistake-free debut for Gresini Ducati at November’s Valencia MotoGP test.

Marc Marquez did his best to play down expectations for his debut Gresini Ducati MotoGP season, insisting it will ‘not be normal’ to be at the same level as Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin from round one.

This is the 2024 Gresini Ducati livery with which Marc Marquez will start a new chapter in his MotoGP career.

Watch live as Marc Marquez joins younger brother Alex Marquez in unveiling Gresini Ducati’s 2024 MotoGP race livery.

Upon announcing his departure, Marc Marquez said: “Honda will come back to the top, with me or without me. But they need time. Athletes don't have time.”

After winning its first MotoGP title with Casey Stoner in 2007, it took Ducati until 2022 and Francesco Bagnaia to finally win a second.

Fabio di Giannantonio tripled his points score during the second half of the 2023 MotoGP season.

The 2023 MotoGP World Championship wasn’t without its moments of controversy, particularly in the closing stages of an intense eight GPs in ten weeks that completed the season.

With the 2024 pre-season MotoGP testing now only a few weeks away, Marc Marquez has reflected on his Gresini Ducati debut and plans for the upcoming outing in Malaysia and Qatar.

Brad Binder’s new all-time MotoGP speed record of 366.1km/h (227.5mph) during last year’s Mugello Sprint race was not a concern for tyre supplier Michelin.

In a lengthy interview with Thomas Baujard for official MotoGP magazine GPMag, Aprilia team manager Paolo Bonora explains some of the advanced technology used on the triple race-winning RS-GP.

While accepting that Sprint races are good for the show, many MotoGP riders would prefer Sprints not to be held at every round.

MotoGP’s long-rumoured revised system of technical Concessions has been announced.

By the MotoGP summer break, Franco Morbidelli was still within just seven points of Monster Yamaha team-mate Fabio Quartararo.

Among the last pieces of advice Marc Marquez gave to Honda before departing for Gresini Ducati was the need to increase engine performance if the RC213V is to fight for a MotoGP title again.

While Pol Espargaro isn’t ruling out a full-time MotoGP return in the future, he acknowledged that ‘one chapter is closing’ in his racing career.

Jorge Martin feels consecutive setbacks in Indonesia and Australia probably cost him the MotoGP World Championship to Francesco Bagnaia.

Fabio di Giannantonio began the Valencia season finale with a debut MotoGP victory under his belt from Qatar but still didn’t know if he had a job for 2024.

Enea Bastianini posted one of the surprises of the MotoGP season when, having failed to break the top six all year, he romped to victory in the Malaysian MotoGP.

Aleix Espargaro might be the oldest rider on the MotoGP grid and has never hidden his opposition to the ever-increasing calendar, but that doesn’t mean he intends to bow out at the end of 2024.