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...

Casey Stoner doubts he would have the pace to finish on the MotoGP podium if he returned, despite starring in pre-season testing for Ducati.The prospect of the 2007 and '11 world champion making a racing comeback has been a hot topic since Stoner left his Honda test position to rejoin...

Honda prevented its MotoGP riders from speaking at a recent event in Italy because it still fears a backlash towards Marc Marquez after the controversial end to the season.Marquez clashed with Valentino Rossi at Sepang, and was then accused of protecting Jorge Lorenzo in the championship decider at Valencia. Prior...

Honda MotoGP team principal Livio Suppo believes Valentino Rossi's actions in his last-lap battle with Marc Marquez at Assen were premeditated and that cutting the chicane was a "cunning" move.Marquez attempted to pass Rossi for the Dutch TT lead on the final lap but the two made contact. Rossi then...

Honda and Casey Stoner discussed the two-time MotoGP champion replacing the injured Dani Pedrosa, but the downside of a short-term comeback outweighed the positives.Stoner won titles in 2007 with Ducati and 2011 with Honda before retiring from MotoGP at the end of 2012, aged 27. While he hasn't raced on...

The Honda MotoGP team says it has no expectation that Marc Marquez will be able to repeat his 2014 domination and expects a closer fight with Yamaha in '15.Marquez won the first 10 races of the 2014 campaign to open up a vast championship lead, and ultimately claimed a record...

Dani Pedrosa's defeat to rookie teammate Marc Marquez in this year's MotoGP campaign does not mean he now has no hope of winning a championship, Honda insists.This year had previously been billed by Honda as a "now or never" campaign for Pedrosa, who had ended 2012 in scintillating form and...