Roughly a year ago, the 2020 WorldSBK Championship kicked off at Philip Island in Australia. That weekend, PATA YAMAHA WorldSBK Official Team member Michael van der Mark raced to four-four finishes atop his YZF-R1, and used the opening round scores as a springboard to an eventual fifth in the final...

Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rider Jonas Folger has announced he will sit out the 218 MotoGP Championship due to illness.After scoring his first podium finish at his home German GP last July, Folger sat out the end of the 2017 season having been diagnosed with a rare strain of Gilbert...

Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rookie Jonas Folger, who hasn't raced since Aragon in late September due to "illness," has an answer for what has been ailing him.After illness forced the 24-year-old German to miss the Japanese Grand Prix and subsequent races in Australia and Malaysia, tests conducted in Munich discovered...

Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) shot to the top of the combined timesheets on Friday at the Monster Energy Grand Prix Ceské republiky, going fastest at the end of FP2 by almost four tenths after a late lunge for P1. Jonas Folger (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) was his closest challenger, with...

Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) has taken an incredible eighth win in a row at the Sachsenring, extending his run from the 125 World Championship to another year of the premier class – with all those wins from pole. It was anything but easy, however – with German rookie Jonas...

Reigning Champion Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) topped FP1 at the Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya, and the Spaniard kept his throne in the afternoon to go quickest in a dry FP2 and head the combined timesheets on Day 1 by four tenths.The man on the chase was compatriot...

Maverick Vinales (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) again led the way at Phillip Island, going even faster on Day 3 to top the time sheets once more. Fastest on Day 2 and during testing at Sepang and Valencia, the Spaniard has hit the ground running in his new MotoGP home at Yamaha,...

Moto2 rivals Johann Zarco and Jonas Folger believe that stepping up to MotoGP on Yamaha machinery next year will help in their rookie campaigns.Zarco and Folger, who fought for the victory at the Sachsenring in Moto2 last month, will both join the Tech3 satellite outfit, replacing the KTM-bound Bradley Smith...

Reigning Moto2 champion Johann Zarco will graduate to MotoGP next year with the Tech3 Yamaha team.The French rider's deal with the satellite team was confirmed on the eve of the German Grand Prix, Tech3 having already indicated it would field an all-rookie line-up in 2017. He has been signed for...

MotoGP's leading satellite team, Tech3 Yamaha is set to field a pair of rookies in 2017, following Pol Espargaro's move to KTM.The Spaniard announced on the eve of his home race last weekend that he will follow his current Tech3 teammate Bradley Smith to KTM's new MotoGP project next year.Tech3...