A dirt-track star who learned to excel on asphalt, Kenny Roberts and his Yamaha YZR500 beamed down in Europe in 1978 and changed the face of grand prix racing. At the 2009 MotoGP finale in Valencia, Spain, Texan Tech 3 Yamaha rider Colin Edwards coined an enduring epithet when he...

Above: Livio Suppo, left, with HRC director/general manager of race operations Tetsuhiro Kuwata.Repsol Honda team principal Livio Suppo is leaving Honda Racing Corporation and the MotoGP paddock to "look for new challenges."Suppo joined HRC in 2010 as communications and marketing director. In 2013 he added the role of team principal...

Ducati's Casey Stoner led the times in a rain-interrupted opening day of MotoGP testing at Sepang.The two-time world champion completed 32 laps with a best time of 1m59.680s, narrowly edging out teammate Andrea Dovizisio's 1m59.797s as the pair worked to gather data on the new exhaust system that heads the...

Ducati Corse general manager Gigi Dall'Igna wants closer ties with two-time MotoGP champion and test rider Casey Stoner in 2017.Stoner, who won MotoGP titles with Ducati in 2007 and Honda in '11 retired at the end of the '12 season, then spent three years as a Honda test rider. In...

Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso will make his car racing debut in a GT Lamborghini at Valencia next month.Dovizioso will race in finale of the one-make Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe series, and Lamborghini's World Final race alongside competitors from the sister North American and Asian championships. The Italian tested the...

Casey Stoner's former right-hand-man will return to Ducati next year to work as Jorge Lorenzo's MotoGP crew chief.Christian Gabbarini was Stoner's crew chief when he won titles with Ducati in 2007 and then Honda in '11, having followed the Australian between the manufacturers. He has stayed within the Honda framework...

The final corner of the Red Bull Ring has been modified on safety grounds for MotoGP's first Austrian Grand Prix since 1997.Honda's Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa had lapped the circuit in promotional events in June, and other riders headed to last month's private test keen to assess conditions for...

Two-time MotoGP champion Casey Stoner rejected an offer from Ducati to make a wildcard entry in this weekend's Austrian Grand Prix, according to reports in the Italian media.Stoner made his latest test appearance for Ducati in the recent Red Bull Ring test, where the manufacturer dominated the timesheets and the...

Andrea Iannone led Andrea Dovizioso and Casey Stoner in a Ducati 1-2-3 as the marque dominated the second day of MotoGP testing at the Red Bull Ring.The majority of the field took part in a two-day test at the Austrian Formula 1 venue on Tuesday and Wednesday ahead of grand...

Two-time MotoGP champion Casey Stoner believes the Red Bull Ring is a "strange" circuit for bikes because of the nature of its layout.The majority of the MotoGP field, including 2017 newcomer KTM, is testing at the Austrian venue ahead of its return to the calendar next month for the first...