Bagnaia must “respect” #1 plate to defend his MotoGP crown in 2023
Bagnaia made history in 2022 when he bounced back from a deficit of 91 points midway through the season to become Ducati’s first MotoGP world champion since 2007. The Ducati rider has elected to swap his #63 plate for #1 for 2023, marking the first time a champion has carried that number since Casey Stoner […]
Honda “not a title contender” on eve of MotoGP 2023
The 2022 season marked Honda’s second winless campaign in three years in a spell that has been dominated by bike problems and injury woes for Marquez. Despite numerous changes over the winter in terms of personnel, with Ken Kawauchi coming from Suzuki to replace Takeo Yokoyama as technical director, Marquez ended the final pre-season test in […]
Honda set to test Kalex MotoGP chassis prior to Americas GP
The Japanese manufacturer has endured a tough 12 months as it suffered its second winless campaign in three years and is coming into the 2023 campaign, which starts this weekend in Portugal, off the back of a tough pre-season. Eight-time world champion Marc Marquez admitted after testing that the 2023 RC213V is currently only good […]
Everything you need to know
Revealed last year during the Austrian Grand Prix, MotoGP is making the most radical format shake-up to a race weekend for decades in 2023. On the Saturday of all 21 rounds this season, a sprint race running to half the distance of the main grand prix will take place. It is a format tweak that […]
RNF unveils new-look for first MotoGP season with Aprilia
The Razlan Razali-owned squad was formed out of the Petronas Sepang Racing Team, which pulled out of MotoGP at the end of the 2021 season. RNF continued on as a Yamaha customer for 2022, but the outfit that took Franco Morbidelli to the runner-up spot in the 2020 championship struggled for form and was second-to-last […]
The helmet safety system slowly making its way to the MotoGP grid
MIPS, which stands for Multi-directional Impact Protection System, is a technology developed in 1996 by specialists from the Royal Institute of Technology and a brain surgeon Hans von Holst. Helmets fitted with MIPS help to reduce the rotational motion placed on the brain during an incident where the head comes to a sudden stop. It […]
Rossi focusing more effort on Morbidelli than rest of VR46 MotoGP Academy
Morbidelli was one of the first riders to be taken under Rossi’s wing when the VR46 Academy was founded in 2014, with the Italian going on to win the Moto2 crown in 2017. Having stepped up to MotoGP in 2018, Morbidelli missed out on the title in 2020 by just 13 points after taking three […]
MotoGP’s aero push ‘not good for the show’
Aerodynamic development in MotoGP has accelerated since Ducati turned up to the 2015 season with winglets on its bike. At last weekend’s Portugal pre-season test, Aprilia rolled out a radical Formula 1-inspired aero concept on its RS-GP which featured wings on the front fork behind its main front aero fairing, strakes on the swingarm and […]
Miller says Bagnaia “a changed man” ahead of 2023 MotoGP title defence
Bagnaia made history in 2022 when he overcame a 91-point deficit and five DNFs to secure his first MotoGP world title, while ending Ducati’s 15-year championship drought. The Italian was criticised for making too many mistakes in 2022, but Miller believes Bagnaia has evolved beyond the rider he was in his title-winning campaign. Asked if […]