MotoGP Features

Fermin Aldeguer talks rookie MotoGP season, 'breakfast' lessons from Marc and Alex Marquez, his 2026 goals...

Pirelli explains why its MotoGP tyre development has shifted away from group tests and towards private 850cc outings.

The 2027 rumour mill is already in full swing and Pedro Acosta will be at the centre of it until his future is secured. At this moment, all signs point to him leaving KTM. It’s a reality KTM must face up to now, but one that will lead to some serious soul-searching as it faces the prospect of one of MotoGP’s biggest fumbles…

Former Suzuki test rider Sylvain Guintoli explains why MotoGP has gone V4-powered, but the advantages may not be guaranteed in the 850cc era.

Fabio Quartararo’s MotoGP future will be one of the main talking points of next year’s rider market ahead of a 2027 grid reshuffle. He’s made his desires clear, but obvious tensions between himself and Yamaha may force the latter into doing something once thought unthinkable for the good of its own long-term future…

The 2025 MotoGP season was one of Marc Marquez’s most dominant, as he sauntered to a seventh world title with five rounds to spare. But we look at the hypothetical championship where Marquez wasn’t present, and just how much that would have changed things for Ducati and the rest of the field…

KTM crew chief Paul Trevathan explains how Pedro Acosta turned his 2025 season around from “a dark place and angry at the world” to “riding beautifully”.

Fabio Quartararo explains why 2019 was more enjoyable than his 2021 MotoGP title-winning year.

Another successful season is in the books for Ducati, but the narrative is very much now about the threat being posed by Aprilia after its surge in the second half of 2025. Though there are reasons to be concerned within the Ducati camp, its rivals still face an enormous hurdle to dethrone the brand in 2026…

Marco Bezzecchi and Pedro Acosta produced the biggest second-half turnarounds of the MotoGP season.

Diogo Moreira steps up to MotoGP as the reigning Moto2 world champion, joining an elite list of riders to have done so since the class came into existence in 2010. We look back over the performance of his fellow title winners in MotoGP, including those whose careers he’ll be looking to avoid replicating...

Jake Dixon says he’s made peace with MotoGP slipping away as he prepares for a fresh start with Honda in WorldSBK.

Marco Bezzecchi hasn’t not led a grand prix in two rounds now, after a lights-to-flag victory at the Valencia Grand Prix. It’s a performance that would have surprised at the start of the 2025 season. But now, not only does Aprilia have its de facto number one rider, but also its next potential franchise hero…

Zarco tops the 2025 MotoGP falls list, Fabio di Giannantonio records the fewest crashes of the full-time grid.

Honda’s jump from MotoGP concession rank D to C removes several key advantages, including private testing with race riders and in-season engine development.

MotoGP’s longest ever season comes to a close this weekend at the Valencia Grand Prix. There’s little left to fight for that matters in the grand scheme of things, but that shouldn’t diminish enthusiasm for the finale. A tight Friday at the Spanish venue is teeing up another three-way KTM-Aprilia-Ducati battle to bring the curtain down…

Marco Bezzecchi turned around a fairly average performance in the sprint to utterly dominate the main race at the MotoGP Portuguese Grand Prix. On a weekend in which Ducati looked set to claim a double with Alex Marquez, Aprilia’s steep step forward on Sunday was a major warning for MotoGP’s dominant brand that success is getting harder to hold onto…

Crash.net gives its rider ratings for the 2025 Portuguese MotoGP.

Even in the absence of Marc Marquez, the MotoGP grid doesn’t look like it will be spared further defeat at the hands of the family as Alex Marquez - now free of the pressures of his championship battle - looks to fill the void. Dominant in Malaysia, he showed no signs of slowing down on Friday in Portugal…

The horrifying incident between Jose Antonio Rueda and Noah Dettwiler was a shuddering reminder of the dangers of motorcycle racing. But, while this crash may have been an unfortunate incident, it must prompt action from MotoGP to avoid a similar situation from happening again…

Alex Marquez was expected to strut through the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend. And while his grand prix victory ultimately followed through with that, it was a weekend far from straightforward as he looked to seal arguably the biggest result of his career…

Saturday 25 October 2025 marks the 10-year anniversary of the infamous clash at Sepang between Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez. It is a moment that continues to reverberate throughout MotoGP. Marquez and Rossi’s paths have gone in wildly different directions since, but the real tragedy of that day haunts the latter the most…

The 2025 Malaysian Grand Prix is shaping up to be another wide-open affair, as the expected favourites struggled. While there are a number of hats in the ring, one world champion emerges from Friday with (at least on pace) a genuine shot at a first MotoGP win in five years…

It began in a cloud of haze and ended with two of MotoGP’s all-time greats at ‘war’. Buckle up for deep dive into the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix.