Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo believe they have learned from each other during their seven seasons as Yamaha MotoGP teammates.This weekend's Valencia finale will be Lorenzo's last with Yamaha, with which he made his debut in 2008, before joining Ducati for next season.Related StoriesWith Rossi having spent two of those...

Ducati rider Andrea Iannone has been cleared to start the Aragon MotoGP round, following further checks on his injured back.The Italian crashed in first practice at Misano, and was ruled out of the race having fractured the T3 vertebra in his upper back.Related StoriesDetermined to race at Aragon - where...

Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez have been offered bodyguards for this weekend's MotoGP round at Mugello, the first in Italy since the controversial end to the 2015 season.Lorenzo overhauled Yamaha teammate Valentino Rossi to win last year's title, while the Italian was involved in a season-defining row with Marquez, who...

Ducati's Andrea Iannone believes he could have pushed French Grand Prix winner Jorge Lorenzo at Le Mans and challenged for his first MotoGP victory.Iannone ran in third place early, before moving past teammate Andrea Dovizioso, who jumped from fifth to second at the start. Trailing Lorenzo's leading Yamaha by one...

Ducati could surprise in MotoGP this year as it looks to end its five-season victory drought, feels 1987 500cc world champion Wayne Gardner.Ducati last won a race with Casey Stoner in Australia in October 2010, and went four years without a pole position until Andrea Dovizioso topped qualifying in Japan...

Bradley Smith is targeting upsets in the first part of the MotoGP season, predicting the new electronics and tires will "change the whole dynamic of the championship."A satellite rider has not won a MotoGP race since Toni Elias in the 2006 Portuguese Grand Prix, but the change to new control...

Valentino Rossi believes he had no choice but to speak out against Marc Marquez last year because he realized he was "screwed" in the MotoGP title race. Rossi launched an attack on Marquez before the penultimate round at Sepang, accusing the Spaniard of "thinking like a child" and plotting to...

Cal Crutchlow says Honda's 2015 MotoGP challenger was "probably the most-difficult bike I've ridden" in the class.After finishing fifth in the 2013 standings on a Tech 3 Yamaha, the Brit moved to Ducati in '14, then LCR Honda last year. While his factory Ducati experience only lasted one season and...

Honda's bid to avoid repeating the mistakes it made with its 2015 MotoGP bike is complicated by the series' new electronics, Marc Marquez acknowledges.The double MotoGP champion struggled through the first half of last year with the consistency of Honda's RC213V, falling three times in a run of five early-season...

Dani Pedrosa says he is proud of himself for the "massive" achievement of reinvigorating his MotoGP season after radical arm surgery in early 2015.The Honda rider withdrew after the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix to have a drastic operation involving the dissection of muscle fascia in an attempt to cure persistent...