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...

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...

Valentino Rossi suspects the spate of MotoGP crashes late in Japanese Grand Prix practice at Motegi on Friday afternoon were down to a drop in temperatures.In the final six minutes of the second session, championship leader Marc Marquez and his Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa, Aspar Ducati rider Eugene Laverty and...

A furious Scott Redding says he has "lost respect" for Danilo Petrucci as a rider, after being hit by his Pramac Ducati MotoGP teammate on the first lap of the Aragon Grand Prix.Having started 10th, Redding was hit by Petrucci at Turn 12 and crashed after being forced wide. He...

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...

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...

Danilo Petrucci has been handed a three-place Czech Grand Prix grid penalty for his last-corner Austrian GP clash with fellow satellite Ducati MotoGP rider Eugene Laverty.Laverty started a career-best 11th on his Aspar Ducati and ran as high as eighth at the Red Bull Ring, but lost several places and...

Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Iannone will contest this weekend's Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring with a rib injury.The Italian fell from a motocross bike while training during the summer break, and while he reported that his ribs had not troubled him in the aftermath, that changed when...

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...