Repsol Honda teammates Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa took to the track with its version of an aero-fairing innovation for the first day of the final preseason test at Losail, but on his first run with it Marquez suffered the first of two falls and wound up 12th fastest."We can't...

MotoGP has announced a minor change to its 2017 calendar, which was originally released back in September. The German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring has been moved forward by two weeks, to July 2.Revised 2017 MotoGP calendarMarch 26 Losail, QatarApril 9 Termas de Rio Hondo, ArgentinaApril 23 Circuit of The...

Marc Marquez says the notion of challenging for pole position in the Qatar Grand Prix would have been "crazy" at the end of MotoGP pre-season testing.Honda had a mixed winter as it struggled to come to grips with the change to a new control ECU and Michelin tires, paired with...

Valentino Rossi is confident Yamaha has done enough to banish its worries over Michelin's tyres ahead of the new MotoGP season.The factory teams completed a number of tests during 2015 on Michelin's development rubber, before it took over from Bridgestone as MotoGP's control tire supplier.Rossi admits his early impressions of...

Honda became the latest MotoGP team to try aerodynamic winglets on its 2016 bike in Qatar testing on Thursday.Both Ducati and Yamaha adopted wings on their bikes' fairings during the 2015 season. Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez each tried Honda's version for short runs on the penultimate day of pre-season...

Aerodynamics such as last year's proliferation of winglets on bikes' fairings will be the next big technical focus in MotoGP, reckons Ducati general manager Gigi Dall'Igna.Ducati led a move towards small winglets on front bodywork during the 2015 season, with Yamaha following suit later in the year. The Ducati winglets...

Yvan Muller beat Citroen teammate Sebastien Loeb to second place in the World Touring Car Championship drivers' standings with victory in the final race of the season at Losail. The 25 points Muller gained for winning were enough for him to overhaul Loeb, as the World Rally legend ended his...

World champion Jose Maria Lopez stormed to the final World Touring Car Championship pole position of 2015 at Losail, with Mehdi Bennani securing a Citroen front row lockout.Argentinian Lopez set a blistering time of 2m00.947s in his C-Elysee to dislodge Bennani from provisional pole with the final lap of Q3....

Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Iannone has called off planned winter surgery on a lingering shoulder injury.The operation had been in the pipeline since a testing crash at Mugello in May that caused a dislocation. He did not miss any races and claimed his first pole at the next grand prix...

Valentino Rossi says his last-lap Qatar Grand Prix battle with Andrea Dovizioso was among the greatest of his MotoGP career.Seven-time champion Rossi overcame Dovizioso's Ducati by a tenth of a second at Losail on Sunday night, inching out enough of an advantage on the infield on the last lap to...