Irish rider Eugene Laverty will leave MotoGP at the end of this year to return to the World Superbike Championship with Aprilia.Runner-up in WSBK in 2013 with Aprilia, Laverty made the move to MotoGP in '15, riding a Honda with the Aspar team in the now-scrapped Open class. The team...

Current Aprilia rider Alvaro Bautista will return to the Aspar team to race a satellite Ducati in MotoGP in 2017.The Spaniard won the 125cc title with Aspar in 2006 and moved up to the 250cc class with the team, winning eight races across three seasons and finishing second in the...

Eugene Laverty feels he is now rebuilding his confidence in MotoGP, after finishing a breakthrough fourth in Argentina.On an open-class Honda run by the Aspar team, Laverty finished 22nd in the standings in 2015, his first season after switching from World Superbikes, where he was a race winner.Laverty finished last...

Nicky Hayden, the 2006 world champion, will leave MotoGP for the World Superbike Championship with Ten Kate Honda in 2016 after a 13-year career in grand prix motorcycle racing.The 34-year-old American joins Michael van der Mark in the lineup at Honda's leading WSBK team, replacing ex-MotoGP rider Sylvain Guintoli. Hayden...

Yonny Hernandez will switch to the Aspar team in MotoGP next season. The 27-year-old Colombian will leave the Pramac Ducati squad after more than two seasons there, having joined the team for the last five races of 2013.Hernandez has been replaced at Pramac by British rider Scott Redding, who will...

Eugene Laverty will switch from the World Superbike Championship to MotoGP with Aspar for 2015.The 28-year-old from Northern Ireland was WSBK runner-up for Aprilia last season before moving to Crescent Suzuki this year, and he has visited several MotoGP events this year as he chased a ride in the grand...

American Nicky Hayden will return to MotoGP action this weekend at Aragon after missing the last four races of the championship.The Aspar rider withdrew from racing in August to undergo surgery to resolve issues with his wrist, a legacy of an accident during the 2011 season. Although Hayden was expected...

Nicky Hayden has undergone further wrist surgery to try to tackle his long-standing injury during MotoGP's summer break.The 2006 world champion's 2014 season has been plagued by a reoccurrence of an old injury to his right wrist. He had to withdraw from last month's Italian Grand Prix and underwent an...

Alvaro Bautista will be fit to contest this weekend's Assen MotoGP race despite having to withdraw from last week's Barcelona test due to pain from a crash.The Gresini rider had a violent high-side during Q2 at the Catalunya Grand Prix. Although he rejoined later in the session and subsequent medical...

Nicky Hayden said it was time to listen to doctors' advice after withdrawing from MotoGP's Italian Grand Prix due to continuing pain in his right wrist.The American rider has been hampered by the wrist issue – a recurring legacy of his Aragon 2012 crash – in recent weeks, but hoped...