MotoGP Features
In-depth MotoGP features and MotoGP exclusive articles from Crash.
Ex-BSB boss plans all-British 125 and 250GP teams.
Former British Superbike team owner Ben Atkins is facing a four-week countdown in an ambitious bid to launch new all-British teams in the 2007 125 and 250cc World Championships.
Schwantz returns to Macau for 40th anniversary.
Former 500cc world champion, Kevin Schwantz, will be amongst the former winners heading for China this November as the Macau Grand Prix celebrates the 40th running of its famous motorcycle street race.
Ducati: We've built 20 800cc engines!
Ducati has already built an incredible 20 engines in preparation for next year's new 800cc formula in MotoGP, racing chief Filippo Preziosi has revealed.
Nicky Hayden's lap of Laguna Seca.
The MotoGP World Championship returned to America, and the Laguna Seca circuit, after a ten year absence last season - where home star Nicky Hayden went on to take his first ever grand prix victory.
Honda: 200 MotoGP wins.
Nicky Hayden made Honda history on Saturday at Assen when his dramatic last turn victory gave the Japanese giant its 200th premier-class grand prix victory.
Preview - Italian Grand Prix.
If Valentino Rossi was to select a particular event to restart his championship campaign it would surely be his home Italian Grand Prix at the magnificent Mugello circuit.
Nakano brings MotoGP back to Spa.
The famous Spa Francorchamps circuit in the Belgian Ardennes recently reverberated to the sound of a factory grand prix bike for the first time in 16 years, when Shinya Nakano put his Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR through its paces.
Michelin: Why F1 and MotoGP don't mix.
Michelin may have won both the 2005 Formula One and MotoGP World Championships - with Renault's Fernando Alonso and Yamaha's Valentino Rossi - but the similarities between the tyres essentially begins and ends with the brand name on the side.
Rossi's landmark races.
Five times MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi is scheduled to make his 100th appearance in the premier-class at Turkey this weekend. The Italian superstar has not missed a race since making his debut in the category at the first race of the 2000 season, in South Africa.
Marco Melandri's lap of Istanbul.
The Istanbul Park circuit holds a special place in Marco Melandri's heart - being the venue of his first ever MotoGP class victory last season - and here the Fortuna Honda rider reviews the secrets of quick lap around the challenging Turkish racetrack...
Rossi 'gives up' on chatter solution.
Reigning five times MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi and Camel Yamaha team-mate Colin Edwards face an uphill battle in tomorrow's opening round of 2006 after the much feared chatter problems returned during Saturday at Jerez.
Suzuki to back Byrne return?
Team Suzuki boss Paul Denning has stated that the 2006 British Superbike season will be a "do or die" year for former MotoGP rider Shane Byrne - if the Briton wants Suzuki backing for a return to world championship action.
Vermeulen 'will beat Rossi'.
Former four-times World Superbike champion Carl Fogarty believes that, within two years, new Suzuki grand prix rider Chris Vermeulen will be capable of beating reigning five-times MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi... if they are on equal machinery.
Surtees: MotoGP should be 600cc.
Former four-times 500cc World Champion, John Surtees, believes that MotoGP engines should be limited to 600cc - rather than the soon to be 800cc - since it would provide a natural progression from the light and nimble 125 and 250cc machines, match the commercial needs of the manufacturers and all
2006 MotoGP calendar announced.
The FIM has today announced the 2006 MotoGP World Championship calendar.
Honda 600 times a GP winner.
Victory in Sunday's 250cc Australian Grand Prix handed Dani Pedrosa a third successive world title and Honda its landmark 600th win in motorcycle grand prix competition.
Rainey recalls 'favourite' Australian upset.
After seeing local hero Wayne Gardner take victory for the first two years of the Australian Grand Prix in 1989 and 1990 at Phillip Island, hopes were high for another home victory when the series switched to a new venue at Eastern Creek on the outskirts of Sydney in 1991.
Yamaha set-up report - Losail.
The Losail circuit is located on the western side of the Persian Gulf just outside of the capital city Doha, and was used for the first time last year.
Honda Pons - Motegi's Rossi stopper!
World Champion Valentino Rossi suffering three successive defeats at the same circuit by the same MotoGP team - doesn't sound likely does it? But that's exactly what's happened at Motegi for the past three seasons...
Tour the Gauloises Yamaha pits - virtually!
Whilst the achievements of Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards have helped propel Gauloises Yamaha to the top of the 2005 MotoGP teams' championship standings, their success would not be possible without the hard work of a dedicated crew of staff inside the pit box.
Ducati reveals wind tunnel work.
MotoGP is the world's fastest motorcycle racing series, so it's no surprise that aerodynamics is a crucial factor in machine development - along with engine, chassis and tyre performance.
Ilmor plans MotoGP engine.
Following KTM's recent withdraw as a MotoGP engine supplier - and continued doubts over the Blata V6 project - hope for teams seeking a competitive powerplant could be on the horizon, with the news that Ilmor Engineering are planning to 'design, build and supply' a MotoGP engine.
No Blata V6 at Brno.
Crash.net has learnt that the Blata V6 MotoGP machine, which was due to make its belated debut with WCM at the minibike manufacturer's home Czech Republic Grand Prix on August 28, will not make the event.
Rossi: Every clever rider is scared.
Valentino Rossi falling may have been a fairly frequent occurrence during his first year in the premier-class - as illustrated by this picture of the Italian spectacularly highsiding from his Nastro Azzurro Honda in 2000 - but the #46 soon adapted to the power of the fearsome 500cc machines and b