The 2027 MotoGP season is 12 months away. The regulations change completely. Pirelli replace Michelin. The engines drop from 1000cc to 850cc. Every manufacturer starts from a different position on the development ladder. And right now, in the background of every race weekend, the most significant transfer story of the modern era is playing out in meeting rooms, paddock corridors…
Every sport has those rivalries that transcend individual races. Senna and Prost. Rossi and Stoner. Lorenzo and Marquez. The 2026 MotoGP season is six weeks old and already building the bones of something that could join that list. Marco Bezzecchi versus Marc Marquez. Four wins against zero Grand Prix podiums. A championship leader against a defending champion. And this weekend,…
Global motorsport championships like MotoGP depend heavily on international travel, freight logistics, and fuel supply. When geopolitical conflicts occur, the first effect is often disruption to transport networks. Airport closures, airspace restrictions, and shipping delays can make it difficult to move bikes, equipment, and personnel between race venues. Recent tensions in the Gulf region have already raised doubts about hosting…
The Baggers Are Here: Everything You Need to Know About MotoGP’s Boldest New SeriesWhen Harley Davidson and Dorna Sports announced the Bagger World Cup at EICMA in Milan last November, the reaction was split almost perfectly down the middle. Half the paddock thought it was the most exciting thing to happen to motorcycle racing in years. The other half thought…
Davide Tardozzi is not a man who panics easily. The Ducati team principal has spent years at the top of MotoGP, navigated title fights, managed egos and overseen the most dominant era in the sport’s modern history. When he speaks publicly about Ducati’s shortcomings, people in the paddock pay attention. After Brazil, he spoke very publicly indeed.“We can’t always rely…
The paddock barely had time to pack its bags after Brazil before the circus rolled north to Austin, Texas. Round 3 of the 2026 MotoGP World Championship takes place at the Circuit of the Americas this weekend, March 27 to 29, and the storylines coming in are as good as anything the sport has delivered in years. A dominant championship…
Fifteen months. That is roughly how long it has been since Jorge Martin looked like the rider who took MotoGP apart in 2024 and won the world title in Valencia. Fifteen months of crashes, injuries, surgeries, broken bones, and a 2025 season that stripped him of confidence and very nearly stripped him of his career. In Goiania on Sunday, a…
MotoGP had not raced in Brazil since 2004. Twenty two years of waiting, a passionate crowd, a newly renovated circuit, and the biggest motorcycle racing championship on the planet returning to South American soil. The occasion demanded a statement weekend. What Goiania delivered instead was a sinkhole, flying debris, injured riders, a race cut by a third with no warning,…
There is a version of events from the Brazilian Grand Prix Sprint that looks encouraging for Yamaha. Fabio Quartararo qualified fourth. He passed both Marco Bezzecchi and Marc Marquez off the start. He grabbed second place behind polesitter Fabio Di Giannantonio and held on to finish sixth.He was pushing to the absolute limit to overcome a 12km/h straightline deficit in…
Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood was born on 2 April 1940 in Great Milton, Oxfordshire. He died on 23 March 1981. He was 40 years old. In the years between those two dates, he became the most complete motorcycle racer the sport has ever produced, a Formula One driver with genuine ability, and a man whose greatest victory came not in…