Outgoing Aspar Ducati rider Eugene Laverty will pair a MotoGP test role with Aprilia with his return to the World Superbike Championship in 2017.This weekend's season finale at Valencia is Laverty's last in MotoGP after two years with the Aspar team, which switched from Open-class Hondas to GP14.2 Ducatis in...

Francesco Bagnaia from Valentino Rossi's rider academy will test one of Aspar Ducati's MotoGP bikes next month, following his Sepang Moto3 victory.Bagnaia won a chaotic and ultimately-shortened Moto3 Malaysian Grand Prix on his Aspar-run Mahindra, finishing a comfortable 7.108 seconds clear after early crashes decimated the lead pack.With his second...

Czech rider Karel Abraham will join the Aspar Ducati team next year, completing the 2017 MotoGP field.Abraham raced in the class between 2011 and '15 with the AB Motoracing outfit led by his father, Karel Abraham Sr., recording a best result seventh on three occasions. The last of those was...

Aspar Ducati rider Eugene Laverty will seek medical clearance to continue in the Japanese Grand Prix, following his crash during MotoGP practice on Friday.Laverty crashed heavily at the fast Turn 6 amid a frenetic end to the second session, which Valentino Rossi attributed to a drop in temperatures, and while...

Aprilia believes its MotoGP package is now "maturing" after its most-competitive weekend of the season at Misano.With its first fully-fledged MotoGP bike delayed in development, Aprilia has essentially been testing in public, and largely down the order with a heavy and underpowered RS-GP. But having tested at Misano two weeks...

Cal Crutchlow followed up his maiden MotoGP victory by taking pole position on home soil at Silverstone by nearly a second in a wet qualifying session.In challenging conditions, LCR Honda rider Crutchlow went to the top of the times with seven minutes remaining with a lap of 2m19.265s, and that...

MotoGP returns to Silverstone for the British Grand Prix this weekend, led by a new local winner following Cal Crutchlow's breakthrough victory at Brno.Crutchlow became the first British rider to win a premier class race since Barry Sheene in the 1981 Swedish Grand Prix last time out, when he mastered...

Aspar Ducati rider Yonny Hernandez was a surprise pacesetter as damp conditions affected opening practice for MotoGP's Italian Grand Prix.Heavy rain hit Mugello on Thursday and continued into the evening, and while conditions improved on Friday morning, the circuit was not dry for the first 45 minutes of running.Only 14...

Eugene Laverty escaped without serious injury in a dramatic crash on the first day of official 2016 MotoGP testing at Sepang on Monday.The Aspar Ducati rider went off at high speed at Turn 4, jumping off the bike before it plowed into the barriers. Laverty, who has spent the last...

Aspar Ducati MotoGP rider Eugene Laverty has undergone successful surgery after his Jerez test crash, and also been diagnosed with additional fractures.Laverty was immediately discovered to have fractured his left wrist, dislocated his right shoulder and sustained a blow to the head when he had a violent crash at the...