Mat Oxley

Anything can happen in motorcycle racing and usually does, so nothing is for certain when Bagnaia and Martin line up at Barcelona this weekend. And how did they get here? Here’s your blow-by-blow account of the 2024 championship, during which they’ve swapped the points lead five times!

How Martin mixed devastating speed with numerous second-place finishes to win a season-long tussle with reigning MotoGP champion Pecco Bagnaia

Dorna and Harley announced a MotoGP collaboration on Monday, but collaboration for what? It’s not quite certain. So what’s going on?

What were the big things that happened in Tuesday’s first pre-2025 tests at Barcelona? And why is MotoGP starting a new technical era that no one would’ve predicted just a few years ago?

Jorge Martin is MotoGP’s sixth indie-team champion, but the original and best was ‘King’ Kenny Roberts, who was also a rookie and contested the equivalent of Moto2 and World Superbike at the same time! This is his remarkable story

Former Ducati and Ferrari Formula 1 engineer Max Bartolini’s job is to make Yamaha victorious again. That means reorganising its race department and expanding its Italian engineering base, crucially for better aerodynamics and tyre analysis. Next week, Bartolini talks about Yamaha’s new V4

Part two of our chat with Yamaha’s ex-Ducati, ex-Ferrari F1 tech boss Max Bartolini, who tells why MotoGP’s current tyres and new rules made a V4 inevitable and why it’s so difficult to catch Ducati

Many believe that Ducati dominates MotoGP thanks to gadgets like mass dampers, ride-height adjusters and downforce aero, but its biggest advantage may be its in-depth tyre analysis, assisted by MegaRide’s latest gizmo

It’s an accepted truth that Bagnaia lost the championship through his frequent falls, but deeper analysis of his and Martin’s results prove otherwise

The Japanese manufacturers are having a horrible time in MotoGP, perhaps their toughest since they evolved from manufacturing weaponry for the Japanese military in World War Two