A fast-closing runner-up to Fabio Quartararo in last year's MotoGP World Championship, Ducati star Francesco Bagnaia won four of the season's last six races. But 2022 has been something of a different reality for the VR46 Academy racer that the legendary Valentino Rossi helped into business. Off-season overrunning research and...

Danilo Petrucci (Ducati Team) topped the timesheets on Day 1 at the Jerez Test after setting a 1m37.968s in the afternoon, heading teammate Andrea Dovizioso – the Italian crashing at Turn 5 late in the day – by 0.217s, with Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda Idemitsu) having a very positive opening...

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...

Moto3 race winner Francesco Bagnaia will return to Valentino Rossi's junior squad next year when it moves up to Moto2.The Italian is currently fourth in the Moto3 standings, having claimed his first victory at Assen in June, which was also a breakthrough result for Mahindra. He raced with Rossi's VR46...

Danny Kent missed another opportunity to become the first Briton to claim a grand prix motorcycle racing world championship in 38 years after a seventh-place finish in Moto3 at Sepang.The series' Malaysian Grand Prix offered Kent a third chance to wrap up the 2015 title, having had earlier opportunities at...

Valentino Rossi has reshuffled the management of his VR46 Moto3 team, with ex-Ducati MotoGP team boss Vito Guareschi departing.Guareschi left his Ducati position to head up Rossi's first foray into team management in the third-tier world championship class this year. He will be replaced by long-time Rossi associates Alessio Salucci...

Valentino Rossi says his VR46 Moto3 team will only pick Italian riders as his priority is to develop national talent that could take on Marc Marquez in MotoGP in the future.VR46 rider Romano Fenati has won three of the seven Moto3 races so far this year and is second behind...