Tom Sykes departs Puccetti Kawasaki team
The 2013 world champion has endured a miserable start to his return to the series after a season away in British Superbike, scoring just a single point in last month’s Assen round with a 15th-place finish. A brief statement issued by Kawasaki billed the split as Sykes «concluding his term» with the one-bike Puccetti team, […]
Is Scott Redding losing patience with BMW?
The ex-MotoGP rider joined BMW last year after losing his Ducati ride to Alvaro Bautista, scoring three podiums in the middle of the season on his way to eighth in the standings. However, Redding has come nowhere near replicating that level of performance so far in 2023 aboard the upgraded M1000RR, his best result so […]
“Difficult” to see my name next to Stoner as Ducati MotoGP champion
Ducati joined the MotoGP grid in 2003 and in 2007 celebrated its first world title with Stoner at the helm. When Stoner left Ducati at the end of 2010, the Italian marque slumped down the order and wouldn’t win another grand prix until 2016, while it wouldn’t be until 2022 that it crowned a world […]
World Superbike results: Bautista completes Barcelona treble
The Spanish rider was unstoppable on home soil, winning the Superpole race to give himself pole for the final race of the weekend, which he duly dominated, beating Yamaha’s Toprak Razgatlioglu by eight seconds. It gives Bautista, who signed a new contract to stay at Ducati ahead of the Barcelona weekend, a healthy 69-point advantage […]
Alvaro Bautista wins Barcelona opener
After an early red flag caused by a crash for Eric Granado, poleman Bautista sauntered to another straightforward win aboard his V4 Panigale in the restarted 17-lap race, shrugging off the 250rpm rev limit decreased given to Ducati ahead of the start of the weekend. Almost nine seconds back at the chequered flag, Yamaha’s Toprak […]
Honda’s Mir opens up on ‘biggest challenge of my life’
The 2020 world champion with Suzuki has endured a torrid start to life as a factory Honda rider, having scored just five points from the first four rounds. After Honda scored victory at the Americas Grand Prix with LCR’s Alex Rins, its Spanish GP weekend brought the Japanese manufacturer crashing down to earth as its […]
Injured Bastianini replaced by Petrucci for French MotoGP round
Bastianini broke a shoulder blade after VR46 Ducati rider Luca Marini collided with him in the Portuguese GP sprint race. The four-time race winner didn’t require surgery on the injury, but was ordered to rest to allow his shoulder to heal. That forced him out of the Argentina GP, while he was deemed unfit to […]
Ducati hit with drop in revs for Barcelona
Series organisers announced on Thursday ahead of the start of track action at the Spanish venue that the all-conquering Ducati V4 R Panigale would have its adjustable rev limit lowered by 250rpm, bringing it down to 15850rpm. It marks the second time the Bologna marque has been hit with such a decrease, as the V4 […]
Pedrosa “best test rider anyone can ask for” in MotoGP
Pedrosa raced in the premier class between 2006 and 2018, winning 31 times and finishing runner-up in the championship on three occasions – doing all of this with Honda. Retiring at the end of 2018, Pedrosa joined KTM as its official test rider and has made two wildcard outings with the brand, in Austria in […]