For years, Yamaha and Honda were MotoGP. Between them, they shared virtually every premier class championship across the first two decades of the four stroke era. Valentino Rossi. Jorge Lorenzo. Casey Stoner. Nicky Hayden. Marc Marquez. Six consecutive titles for Marquez alone. The Japanese manufacturers were not just competitive, they were the sport’s defining forces. Today, both find themselves staring…
Some sporting returns feel routine. A calendar shuffle, a new contract, a familiar venue restored to the schedule. Brazil is not that. MotoGP’s return to Goiania in 2026 ends a 33 year absence from the Autodromo Internacional Ayrton Senna , and brings back one of motorcycle racing’s most passionate and emotionally charged relationships with a host nation. This is not…
First it was Phillip Island. Now, according to a report from La Gazzetta dello Sport, Aragon is in Liberty Media’s sights. The Aragon Grand Prix is reportedly a target for removal, with Liberty looking to reduce MotoGP’s heavy Spanish presence on the calendar. MotoGP has set a hard limit of 22 races per season, and several new venues are knocking…
There is a question that has quietly grown louder in the MotoGP paddock over the past several seasons. The bikes are faster than ever. The riders are more talented than ever. The technology is more sophisticated than ever. And yet, somehow, the racing occasionally feels less exciting than it used to be. Fans notice it. Riders acknowledge it privately. And…
When MotoGP introduced Sprint races in 2023, Dorna sold the concept as a gift to the fans. More racing. More action. More drama every single weekend. The response from the grandstands was positive. Viewing figures improved. Social media engagement spiked. On the surface, Sprint racing looked like an unqualified success. But beneath the celebratory headlines, a more uncomfortable question has…
MotoGP has always been an expensive business. The research, the development, the personnel, the logistics of a global championship., the costs are staggering even for the largest manufacturers on the planet. But in late 2024, the paddock was confronted with a genuinely alarming possibility. KTM, one of MotoGP’s most competitive and exciting manufacturers, was staring into a financial abyss that…
Yamaha’s difficult start to the 2026 MotoGP season created tension inside the garage at the Thailand Grand Prix, where concerns reportedly grew about how Fabio Quartararo might react publicly after the race. The French rider endured a frustrating weekend at Buriram as the team struggled for pace and consistency. Throughout pre-season testing and the opening race weekend, Yamaha’s new V4…
In motorcycle racing, manufacturers come and go. Dynasties rise and fall. But what Ducati has built over the past four years represents something genuinely unprecedented in MotoGP history, a period of total, suffocating, almost embarrassing dominance that has forced every rival back to their drawing boards and rewritten what a premier class motorcycle needs to be.The Beginning of the RevolutionDucati’s…
McCoy had done everything right. Years of preparation, applications submitted, machinery sorted, plans made. His 2025 Isle of Man TT debut was set. Then the North West 200 happened. A collision with Craig Neve at Mill Road roundabout left McCoy with a bleed on the brain, a broken collarbone, 17 fractures across 11 ribs, a punctured lung, and a fractured…
Yamaha arrived at the 2026 MotoGP season opener in Thailand with a new engine, a bold vision, and considerable hope. They left Buriram with a brutal reality check. The new V4-powered M1 was comprehensively the slowest machine on the grid, and Yamaha managing director Paolo Pavesio faced the media alone, his riders notably absent behind a factory-imposed media blackout. His…