Even going back to last month’s TT Assen, 32 year-old Englishman Sam Lowes, smack in the middle of the 2023 FIM MotoGP Moto2 world championship, felt like something big was coming his way.“I still feel like I’ve got a lot to give,” said the ELF Marc VDS Racing Team Moto2...

The Autodrom Most in the Czech Republic will host the Prosecco DOC Czech Round this weekend, and Jonathan Rea and his Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK Ninja ZX-10RR are ready. Now in a three-way tussle for the 2022 WorldSBK Championship, a mere 43 points separate title Alvaro Bautista (246 points), Rea...

With five consecutive FIM World Superbike Championships, Jonathan Rea has become the most decorated and WorldSBK riders ever. Rea’s 2019 did not come cheap, as the flying Alvaro Bautista and the potent Ducati Panigale V4 R came out swinging, but the Northern Irishman and the entire Kawasaki Racing Team kept...

Eleven races and six venues into the 2019 WorldSBK Championship, it all finally came right for Pata Yamaha WorldSBK pilot Michael Van Der Mark when he won his first race of the season at Jerez. Bumped up to third in the WorldSBK title fight, the 26 year-old Dutchman has taken...

Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) was fastest in FP1 at the Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix, heading to the top late in FP1 in the dry – and the Championship contender backed it up in a wet FP2 to again head the timesheets. Key rival Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team), who...

Maverick Viñales (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) kept his spot at the top by the end of FP3, leading the combined timesheets by 0.295 ahead of a leap up the timesheets from LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow. Reigning Champion Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) kept his place in Q2 P3, with many...

Suzuki's Andrea Iannone blew past Ducati test rider Casey Stoner's Day 1 pace in Malaysia, setting the fastest lap of MotoGP's two-day test at 1m59.452s, four-tenths quicker than Yamaha's Maverick Vinales.Iannone was testing a new engine during his 40 laps and briefly dropped from the top spot – to rookie...

New Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaro reckons its RS-GP still stands to "lose a couple of kilos" as part of its development in MotoGP.Aprilia's first thoroughbred MotoGP bike missed the bulk of pre-season testing, first turning a wheel five weeks before the Qatar opener, and it remained overweight during the season.Before...

Suzuki refugee Aleix Espargaro admits he was surprised with how good Aprilia's MotoGP bike is, during his first test at Valencia.Having been delayed in development, Aprilia's RS-GP only turned a wheel for the first time five weeks before the 2016 season opener in Qatar.Related StoriesWhile it generally spent the year...

Cal Crutchlow has slammed Aprilia MotoGP rider Stefan Bradl as a "f**king idiot" after encountering the German in the thick of slow traffic during Valencia Grand Prix qualifying.LCR Honda man Crutchlow missed out on a guaranteed spot in Q2, and his first run in Q1 was blighted by traffic, including...