Danilo Petrucci has beaten teammate Scott Redding in an intra-Pramac battle to ride the same specification MotoGP Ducati as Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso in 2017.Ducati's satellite team decided a shootout across the second half of the season was the best way to decide which of its two riders would...

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 has chosen Andrea Dovizioso to partner MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo for 2017 and '18, leaving Andrea Iannone out of its line-up from the end of this season.Lorenzo's high-profile switch from Yamaha to Ducati left its two Italian riders vying for one seat alongside the Spaniard, and on Tuesday the...

Scott Redding is still hopeful he has a shot at a 2017 factory Ducati MotoGP seat despite the team signing Jorge Lorenzo.Ducati is expected to retain one of its current riders Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone alongside Lorenzo next year. Redding left the Honda fold to join Ducati satellite team...

Casey Stoner and Ducati discussed the possibility of the Australian making his MotoGP comeback at the next race in Argentina as Danilo Petrucci's Pramac stand-in, before deciding against it.Petrucci will miss at least the next two grands prix having exacerbated a hand injury from a testing crash when he tried...

Pramac Ducati's Danilo Petrucci was fastest in a Sepang MotoGP test disrupted by a massive crash for Loris Baz, and in which Jorge Lorenzo's pace again looked ominous.Returning MotoGP tyre supplier Michelin withdrew its soft compound and mandated higher tire pressure after what appeared to be a blowout sent Baz...

MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo led Yamaha teammate Valentino Rossi in the first day of pre-season testing at Sepang.Lorenzo was more than one second clear at the top of the time sheets as race riders returned to action for the first time in 2016. The Spaniard led the way for...

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...

Dani Pedrosa (LEFT) led Jorge Lorenzo home in a Malaysian Grand Prix dominated by MotoGP championship leader Valentino Rossi's apparently deliberate clash with Marc Marquez.The once friendly relationship between Marquez and Rossi had turned sour prior to the Sepang race when Rossi vehemently criticised Marquez's riding in the preceding Phillip...

Scott Redding says his MotoGP resurgence is due to riding "like a child" and having fun again after a tough first half of 2015.The Briton took his first premier-class podium with third in last weekend's San Marino Grand Prix, following a breakthrough sixth at his home race a fortnight earlier....