MotoGP Features
In-depth MotoGP features and MotoGP exclusive articles from Crash.
Factory-Spec Yamaha MotoGP chassis needs A-Spec 'turnability'
Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team manager Wilco Zeelenberg says Factory-Spec chassis lacked the 'turnability' of the A-Spec machine.
Morbidelli: MotoGP is a game, nothing is as big as friendship
Franco Morbidelli will race against new Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team-mate Valentino Rossi 'the same I have been racing against him all my life' but 'we need to remember that nothing is as big as friendship'.
Razali not afraid to 'bulldoze' Yamaha, 'deep collaboration' for 2022
'We felt we were just a paying customer and not a partner' - Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team principal Razlan Razali says tensions with Yamaha cleared ahead of 2021, new five-year deal proposed.
Petronas: 'Motorsport artist' Morbidelli can fight for MotoGP title
Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team principal Razlan Razali and director Johan Stigefelt explain why they believe staying on the A-Spec bike should be no barrier to success for Franco Morbidelli this season.
MotoGP electronics: 'Understanding bigger than engine controls'
Alex Rins' crew chief Jose Manuel Cazeaux explains why the biggest contribution made by MotoGP electronics is no longer in the areas of traction control or anti-wheelie but in understanding what is happening inside the bike.
'The Suzuki MotoGP way': Data sharing, parts guarantee, no secrets...
Suzuki MotoGP crew chiefs Jose Manuel Cazeaux (Alex Rins) and Frankie Carchedi (Joan Mir) explain why 'the rules of the game inside our garage' don't allow for a number 1 or number 2 rider.
Nakagami: This season we cannot make mistakes, 'hybrid' Honda MotoGP style
After three seasons of moving up the championship table on year-old Honda machinery, Takaaki Nakagami gets his big chance for 2021 in the form of promotion to the latest-spec RCV.
Alex Marquez: 'We were losing 7-seconds in the first 3 laps'
By the time the chequered flag falls at the Doha Grand Prix, MotoGP riders will have completed at least five days of testing at the Losail circuit followed by six days of grand prix action, over the opening race weekends.
Poncharal: I really believe an Independent team can win MotoGP title
Satellite MotoGP riders won more races than Factory team riders last season, by a score of 8–6. That's quite a milestone. To put it into perspective, there was a not a single satellite race winner in MotoGP from Toni Elias at Estoril in 2006 until Jack Miller at Assen in 2016.
Yamaha moves 2021 Factory MotoGP chassis 'closer to Morbidelli spec'
The gulf in performance between Franco Morbidelli and the Factory-Spec Yamaha riders during the end of last season prompted the likes of Maverick Vinales and especially Fabio Quartararo to wish they were also on the older A-Spec bike.
'Pedrosa really looking at MotoGP race distance, people learn a lot from him'
Test rider Dani Pedrosa has been credited by MotoGP riders both inside and outside of KTM for playing a key role in turning the factory's RC16 into a race-winning machine.
Fabio Quartararo: Covid, psychologist, Factory MotoGP pressure, having fun
After fighting off Covid over the winter, Fabio Quartararo made his first official appearance as a Factory Yamaha MotoGP rider during the team's 2021 online launch.
Stats: Joan Mir's qualifying compared to previous MotoGP champions
One of Suzuki's main targets for its 2021 MotoGP title defence is to do better during qualifying – and it's not hard to see why.
Joan Mir: 'Positive' pressure as MotoGP world champion
Joan Mir's historic world championship winning season for Suzuki was characterised by a slow start - DNFs in two of the opening three rounds - then staying rock solid as the pressure rose in the MotoGP title fight.
Rossi, Bagnaia and 3 more riders that really need a good 2021 MotoGP season
The 2021 MotoGP World Championship is looming but which riders head into the new season knowing they have something more to prove...
Zarco ponders 'possible' similarity with Lorenzo's Ducati MotoGP learning curve
In many ways, the 2020 season was a case of mission accomplished for Johann Zarco, who gave Avintia its first MotoGP pole position and podium (on a year-old GP19), securing his promotion to Pramac and the latest Ducati machinery for 2021.
Cal Crutchlow: I was different to the corporate MotoGP robots, it worked for me
It may not have been the 'corporate image' manufacturers wanted, but Cal Crutchlow has no regrets for speaking his mind throughout his MotoGP career.
Flashback: Rossi, Biaggi grid controversy as Gibernau wins first Qatar MotoGP
After losing its MotoGP race to Covid last season, Qatar will make up for lost time by hosting two back-to-back rounds at the start of the 2021 campaign.
Would shorter 2-day race weekends be good for MotoGP?
Last year's compressed 'Covid' MotoGP calendar, which saw 14 rounds in the space of four months, including the last nine races over eleven weekends, prompted renewed discussion of whether at least some race weekends should be reduced to just two days.
The good and the bad: Eight times F1 teams made unusual personnel hires
We chart some of the best and outright bizarre moves F1 teams made for new personnel, both from within the sport and outside it...
Pol Espargaro talks Repsol Honda MotoGP move, Marc Marquez, RCV…
Repsol Honda has released the following interview - watch below - with its new MotoGP signing Pol Espargaro, joining the factory HRC squad in 2021 as team-mate to (currently injured) eight-time world champion Marc Marquez.
Aleix Espargaro 'feels better than ever, 2021 crucial year for Aprilia'
The departure of Cal Crutchlow (35), Andrea Dovizioso (34) and Tito Rabat (31) means Aleix Espargaro now becomes the second-oldest rider on the MotoGP grid, after Valentino Rossi.
Bagnaia: Biggest problem was heating the front tyre
On paper, Francesco Bagnaia finished the 2020 MotoGP season with one podium to his name and a lowly 16th place in the world championship.