The injury to Marc Marquez at Le Mans has done more than just sideline a championship contender; it has pulled back the curtain on a brewing technical crisis at Borgo Panigale. While the Desmosedici GP26 was initially hailed as a step forward, internal data and rider feedback now suggest a machine with a narrow performance window that only one man…
Ai Ogura’s third place at the French Grand Prix was the first MotoGP podium for a Japanese rider since 2012. The result finally ended the longest barren run for the country since Hideo Kanaya opened its rostrum account at the 1973 French Grand Prix.That deserves a moment. Not a quick number buried in a race report. A genuine pause to…
Marc Marquez fractured the fifth metatarsal in his right foot and will miss at least the French Grand Prix and the Catalan Grand Prix while he undergoes surgery in Madrid.What nobody outside the Ducati garage knew was that surgery had already been planned. Marquez was already booked in for a shoulder operation after Barcelona, a loose screw from his 2025…
Tragic news has reached the paddock as the 2026 North West 200 is hit with heartbreak. A rider has passed away following an incident at Station Corner during Thursday morning's Superbike qualifying session. Event Update & Schedule Changes Despite the devastating loss, the event will continue with the full approval of the rider's family. However, at their request, the identity…
Carmelo Ezpeleta, the man who has run MotoGP since 1992, who survived the transition from two strokes to four, who guided the championship through a global pandemic, who sold Dorna to Liberty Media without blinking, stood in Barcelona this week and delivered his verdict on the biggest commercial crisis in the sport’s recent history.We discuss contracts to fulfil them. We…
The dinner tables were set. The wine was poured. Liberty Media had flown in its most senior executives from the United States specifically to sit down with MotoGP’s manufacturers and build bridges at a lavish event in Jerez.Nobody from Aprilia turned up. Nobody from KTM. Nobody from Yamaha.The empty chairs said everything that months of careful diplomatic language had been…
MotoGP is getting louder inside the helmet. Not from the engine. From Race Direction.The Jerez test on April 28 marked another milestone in one of the sport’s longest running and most quietly significant development projects. Fabio Quartararo tested the latest version of MotoGP’s in-helmet radio system and described it as having made a big step, though he warned that sound…
There is a question Marc Marquez gets asked constantly. Journalists ask it at every press conference. Fans ask it on social media. Even his own team wants to know the answer. Are you at 100 percent?His answer is honest and unsettling in equal measure. He no longer knows what his 100 percent is.For a man who has built his entire…
Marc Marquez wants to stay at Ducati. Ducati want to keep Marc Marquez. On the surface this should be the easiest contract negotiation in MotoGP history. Two parties. One obvious outcome. Yet weeks into discussions, nothing is signed. The reason tells you everything about where Marquez’s head is right now.Most Points Agreed, One Sticking PointMarquez has confirmed that talks with…
There is a statistic sitting in the Ducati garage that nobody in Bologna wants to look at. Five MotoGP grands prix without a win. It is their longest such run since 2021, and the factory Ducati Lenovo Team have not even stood on a Sunday podium since the Japanese Grand Prix in 2025, a drought that stretches back further than…