Avintia MotoGP satellite rider Hector Barbera will stand in for the injured Andre Iannone for the factory Ducati outfit in this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix.Iannone fractured his T3 vertebra in a practice crash at Misano last month and had been eyeing a return at Motegi. However, the Italian has elected...

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...

MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez rounded off his 2014 season with victory in the Superprestigio dirt track exhibition event in Barcelona on Saturday night.Marquez had been narrowly defeated by 2013 AMA Flat Track champion Brad Baker in the inaugural running of the event in January this year, but in the...