Reigning MotoGP champion Ducati reveals 2024 livery
The 2023 season marked an utterly dominant year for Ducati in MotoGP, as the manufacturer scored a record 17 of 20 grand prix victories on its way to the constructors’ title. Having ended Ducati’s 15-year championship drought in 2022, Bagnaia became its first back-to-back riders’ title after beating Pramac’s Jorge Martin after the battle between […]
Marquez “can’t pretend” to think he can win on Ducati MotoGP bike straight away
The eight-time world champion made his public debut with the Gresini team he will race with this season at its launch on Saturday, after parting ways with Honda at the end of a difficult 2023 campaign. Marquez made his debut on the bike at the post-season Valencia test last November, ending the day fourth overall […]
Gresini unveils 2024 MotoGP livery for Marquez’s first season on a Ducati
For the first time since he stepped up to MotoGP in 2013, eight-time grand prix world champion Marquez has kicked off a new campaign not a part of the factory Honda organisation. Having struggled for much of the 2023 season as the Honda lacked competitiveness, Marquez elected to end his HRC contract a year early […]
BMW «not far behind» WSBK rivals as Razgatlioglu targets 2025 title
Razgatlioglu dropped a bombshell last year when he announced he will be ending a four-year relationship with Yamaha to join BMW in WSBK in 2024. The move attracted a fair bit of scepticism from onlookers, as BMW has struggled to trouble the frontrunners since it returned as a factory to WSBK in 2019. Since its […]
Ducati says its image won’t be hurt if Marquez wins MotoGP title on old bike
The six-time premier class champion left Honda at the end of last year to join the Gresini team, which will run the 2023 bikes which dominated last season. Although the Italian manufacturer has repeatedly stressed that Dall’Igna has no influence over the choice of riders for the Faenza-based team, Marquez’s move would not have gone […]
Ex-WSBK and 500cc star Anthony Gobert dies aged 48
The news of his death was confirmed by his mother Suzanne Gobert in a heartwarming post on Facebook, where she talked about his life outside of motorsport and his struggles with addiction. «My heart is breaking as I write this as my first born beautiful son Anthony has passed late this afternoon,» she wrote. «I […]
What MotoGP’s 2023 crash stats say about the sprint format
Like them or lump them, sprint races are here to stay in MotoGP. Their introduction may have been sudden and overwhelming, but the primary aim of them was to get more people interested in the series. And a look at the trackside figures for 2023 reveals that was definitely the case. Of the 20 rounds […]
Repsol to have reduced presence in 2024 Honda MotoGP livery
2024 will mark the 30th year of Repsol’s sponsorship of Honda, a partnership that has made its orange livery one of the most recognisable in the history of motorcycle racing. However, in what is supposed to be a landmark year for their long-standing association, the Spanish oil giant will end up with limited exposure for […]
MotoGP concessions allow rivals to make mistakes Ducati can’t make
On the 10th anniversary of his arrival at the Bolognese company, the engineer has been accumulating influence, in his team and in the championship, to the point of being seen by many as the Adrian Newey of the competition. After breaking most records last season, Ducati will face 2024 in full strength and with the […]