MotoGP Features

Aprilia's announcement that it will give the second RS-GP race seat, the last remaining place on the 2021 MotoGP grid, to either Bradley Smith or Lorenzo Savadori is sure to add some spice to the team's pre-season testing.

Valentino Rossi is adamant Yamaha can improve its MotoGP engine performance for 2021, despite the current freeze on most areas of engine design. To help limit costs in response to the Covid pandemic, MotoGP announced that the usual in-season ban on engine development would be extended.

The Motorcycle Grand Prix history books will record that Franco Morbidelli got within just 13 points of becoming the first-ever satellite world champion of the four-stroke MotoGP era.

Suzuki may have claimed the 2020 title without the benefit of a satellite team, but it looks a question of 'when' not 'if' the factory expands its MotoGP line-up.

He finished third in the overall standings but we have ranked Alex Rins 'only' eighth in our Top 10 MotoGP Riders of the Year for 2020... 

He just missed out on the overall top ten in his rookie 2020 MotoGP campaign but Brad Binder squeaks into our Top 10 Rider of the Year countdown...

Crash.net has ranked its Top 10 Riders for the 2020 MotoGP season (it wasn't easy)... first up in 10th, we have a revitalised Johann Zarco

2020 was a season of 'missed opportunities' for Yamaha, which won more than twice the number of races of any other manufacturer but still lost out on the MotoGP riders', constructors' and teams' titles.

During his final MotoGP weekend with Ducati, sporting director Paolo Ciabatti paid tribute to Andrea Dovizioso's success with the team, while adding that after eight years there was probably a need to 'turn the page'.

All 2021 MotoGP grid places are now confirmed barring the second Aprilia seat alongside Espargaro, which had been reserved for Andrea Iannone. That seat will now go to either Bradley Smith or fellow test rider Lorenzo Savadori, a final decision being made after pre-season testing.

After recording the highest number of MotoGP falls last season, Johann Zarco remained top of the list during the shorted 2020 world championship.

The 2020 Portuguese MotoGP delivered the first all-satellite top three result since 2004... but is this just the tip of the iceberg for the teams formerly known as 'B'?

You won't get a more resounding winner than Miguel Oliveira after his homegrown dominance on the Portuguese MotoGP, but who else deserves our plaudits and who gets our Sunday shame?

It might not make comfortable reading for Yamaha, but at least their 2021 factory MotoGP team line-up of Maverick Vinales and Fabio Quartararo are in agreement.

Joan Mir and Suzuki prove you don't need to win every weekend to become the biggest winners in MotoGP... as Franco Morbidelli shows how Yamaha's win means it actually lost.

After pinballing up and down the MotoGP results all year, Maverick Vinales is now in no doubt that "we made a mistake" when selecting the 2020 Factory-spec Yamaha: "Last year's bike was more competitive in all the tracks, not only a few."

Winner Joan Mir & Suzuki

Yamaha's penalty for breaching the MotoGP engine homologation rules has been a hot topic among their rivals at Valencia. The factory lost constructors' and teams' points for the engines used at the opening Jerez round - p

With three rounds remaining, Suzuki's Joan Mir holds a 14-point lead at the head of the MotoGP World Championship standings.

Reigning world champion Marc Marquez has been out of action since breaking his arm in the season-opening Spanish Grand Prix and there are now doubts about whether he will even return this season.

MotoGP's clampdown on riders improving their lap time while passing yellow flags caused further controversy in qualifying at Aragon last weekend.

Eight different riders have won MotoGP races so far this season but world championship leader Joan Mir isn't one of them.

Suzuki shines in Spain as Alex Rins scores its first win in more than 12 months and Joan Mir - despite being win-less in MotoGP - leads the standings with four races to go

The French MotoGP throws the formbook out of the window (again) as Danilo Petrucci makes it seven winners in nine 2020 MotoGP races... so who were the big winners and losers?