HRC test rider Stefan Bradl will reunite with the LCR Honda team he participated with between 2012 and 2014 to replace the injured Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda Castrol) at the Malaysian GP after the British rider suffered right ankle fractures in an FP2 crash at Turn 1 in Australia.“[Cal']’s fairly...

Cal Crutchlow has slammed Aprilia MotoGP rider Stefan Bradl as a "f**king idiot" after encountering the German in the thick of slow traffic during Valencia Grand Prix qualifying.LCR Honda man Crutchlow missed out on a guaranteed spot in Q2, and his first run in Q1 was blighted by traffic, including...

Aprilia will run a special, all-red livery in this weekend's Valencia MotoGP finale to support AIDS charity (RED).The RS-GPs of outgoing riders Alvaro Bautista and Stefan Bradl will carry the color as part of Aprilia parent company Piaggio Group's support for the association founded by U2 singer Bono and American...

Valentino Rossi thought he would be able to catch Cal Crutchlow and win MotoGP's Australian Grand Prix from 15th on the grid, when Marc Marquez crashed.The Yamaha rider qualified a lowly 15th at Phillip Island, his worst result in six years, and surmised that a win was "quite impossible." However...

Aprilia MotoGP riders Stefan Bradl and Alvaro Bautista will have two of the Italian manufacturer's new frames available to them from the Japanese Grand Prix.Related StoriesFirst taken to a race at Silverstone last month, the new frame has been central to Aprilia's progress with its RS-GP in recent grands prix.Bautista...

Aprilia believes its MotoGP package is now "maturing" after its most-competitive weekend of the season at Misano.With its first fully-fledged MotoGP bike delayed in development, Aprilia has essentially been testing in public, and largely down the order with a heavy and underpowered RS-GP. But having tested at Misano two weeks...

Irish rider Eugene Laverty will leave MotoGP at the end of this year to return to the World Superbike Championship with Aprilia.Runner-up in WSBK in 2013 with Aprilia, Laverty made the move to MotoGP in '15, riding a Honda with the Aspar team in the now-scrapped Open class. The team...

LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow felt his ride-through penalty after being deemed to have jumped the start of MotoGP's Austrian Grand Prix was "very harsh."Lining up seventh on the grid, Crutchlow was one of five riders penalized for a start line infringement, along with Hector Barbera, Yonny Hernandez and Aprilia pair...

The human errors that led to Aprilia's disastrous Austrian Grand Prix have been slammed by "furious" bosses of its MotoGP program.Alvaro Bautista and Stefan Bradl were both part of a group of five riders deemed to have jumped the start and handed ride-through penalties at the Red Bull Ring.Bradl then...

Aprilia's MotoGP challenger is primarily losing ground in turn-in and straight line speed compared to its rivals, Alvaro Bautista believes.The Italian manufacturer's RS-GP is its maiden thoroughbred MotoGP bike, last year's machine effectively a production-derived test mule, but only ran for the first time five weeks before the Qatar season...