Ducati plays down Jorge Martin’s Yamaha MotoGP links for 2024
One-time grand prix winner Martin made his MotoGP debut with Ducati as a Pramac rider in 2021 and won the Styrian GP in his rookie year. Martin was locked in a battle with Enea Bastianini last season for a place at the factory Ducati squad, but was beaten to the seat by the four-time race […]
Tito Rabat replaces Sykes at Puccetti Kawasaki
Rabat takes over Puccetti’s sole customer ZX-10RR for the rest of the 2023 campaign, starting with next week’s Misano race, following the abrupt departure of 2013 WSBK champion Sykes four rounds into the season. A disappointing start to the season for Sykes, who had only scored one point on his return to WSBK this year, […]
Mir “scared” of repeating Lorenzo’s Honda MotoGP failure
The 2020 world champion switched to the factory Honda squad for this season after Suzuki quit the series at the end of last year. Mir is the fifth different rider in six years to partner Marc Marquez at Honda, following Dani Pedrosa in 2018, Lorenzo in 2019, Alex Marquez in 2020 and Espargaro in 2021/2022. […]
The timely result of an under-pressure MotoGP rookie
The reigning Moto2 world champion, Fernandez is the only rookie on the 2023 MotoGP grid, having been signed by Tech3 to join its KTM-backed, GASGAS-branded squad. Fernandez endured a tough first four rounds of the championship, scoring nothing in any of the sprints and achieving a best grand prix result of 10th in America. At […]
Yamaha signs new deal with Andrea Locatelli
The announcement follows the news that Locatelli’s team-mate and 2021 champion Toprak Razgatlioglu will leave Yamaha at the end of the current season to join rival marque BMW. A replacement for Razgatlioglu is yet to be revealed, but a new two-year deal with Locatelli means Yamaha will have at least one rider with experience of […]
The MotoGP implications of Razgatlioglu’s BMW decision
Razgatlioglu’s future announcement comes just weeks after he tested a Yamaha MotoGP bike, fuelling speculation that the Turkish rider could be in line for a grand prix move with the Japanese marque. It was a test attended by Yamaha senior management, though during the Americas Grand Prix weekend Lin Jarvis suggested Razgatlioglu’s signing would be […]
Why MotoGP races have become so chaotic
The extremely close field that currently exists in MotoGP, and the difficulty to overtake generated by the aerodynamics of the current bikes, explain the increase in aggression at the start of the races and, with that, the higher number of accidents. Properly interpreted, statistics are capable of reflecting the reality as if they were a […]
Razgatlioglu joins BMW after Yamaha departure
The news was made official on Monday afternoon, hours after the shock announcement that the Turkish rider will part ways with Yamaha at the end of the current season. Razgatlioglu’s hiring is expected to boost the fortunes of BMW, which has been unable to take the challenge to Kawasaki, Ducati and Yamaha since it returned […]
Razgatlioglu to split with Yamaha after 2023 World Superbike season
Razgatlioglu has been a mainstay on the WSBK grid since his debut in 2018 with the Kawasaki-backed Puccetti squad, with which he took his first wins in the series in 2019. For 2020, Razgatlioglu moved to Yamaha and ended its title drought dating back to Ben Spies in 2009 when he clinched the championship by […]