Yamaha and Tech 3 have announced that 2018 will be their last season as partners in the FIM MotoGP World Championship, after 20 mutually successful years. Yamaha have accepted Tech 3's decision and will provide full support to the team up to and including the last race of the 2018...

It was a slow start to action at Valencia in the official MotoGP post-race test on the Spanish circuit as sunny skies hid cool air temperatures, but the engines soon fired up to full speed once the first forays had been made. By the end of the first day, Maverick...

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...

KTM team manager Mike Leitner admits the sensor failure that ended its MotoGP debut at Valencia was a "big warning" ahead of its full-time entry in 2017.Test rider Mika Kallio raced the Austrian brand's RC16 as a wild card, with the weekend highlighting a rear-grip deficit. Kallio managed to qualify...

Yamaha MotoGP boss Lin Jarvis admits it has been "strange" to spend nearly a whole season working with Jorge Lorenzo knowing the Spaniard was leaving for Ducati.Three-time champion Lorenzo announced his 2017 switch to Ducati in April, three races into the campaign, having pushed Yamaha to offer him an extended...

KTM tried a significantly updated version of its MotoGP test bike at Misano this week, as its preparations continue ahead of its return at the end of 2016.The Austrian manufacturer's RC16 machine spent three days running in Italy, where Ducati and Aprilia were also in action.Related StoriesTechnical director Sebastian Risse...

MotoGP is to introduce a new stewards' panel to rule on rider infractions in the wake of the Valentino Rossi/Marc Marquez controversy at the end of 2015.The championship's penalty system came under scrutiny amid the controversies in last season's title fight, with Rossi given three penalty points for his clash...

Jorge Lorenzo wants another MotoGP title fight with teammate Valentino Rossi in 2016, if only for the reason that it will mean Yamaha is still at the front of the field.Yamaha emerged as the dominant manufacturer in the 2015 season, with champion Lorenzo winning seven races and runner-up Rossi four...

Honda's bid to avoid repeating the mistakes it made with its 2015 MotoGP bike is complicated by the series' new electronics, Marc Marquez acknowledges.The double MotoGP champion struggled through the first half of last year with the consistency of Honda's RC213V, falling three times in a run of five early-season...

Dani Pedrosa hopes MotoGP can reflect on its late-2015 controversies "with a cold mind" to decide whether the spats between Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez should prompt any rule changes.The last races of 2015 were overshadowed by a series of on and off track clashes, as first Rossi accused Marquez...