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...

Aspar Ducati rider Yonny Hernandez was a surprise pacesetter as damp conditions affected opening practice for MotoGP's Italian Grand Prix.Heavy rain hit Mugello on Thursday and continued into the evening, and while conditions improved on Friday morning, the circuit was not dry for the first 45 minutes of running.Only 14...

Aspar Ducati MotoGP rider Eugene Laverty has undergone successful surgery after his Jerez test crash, and also been diagnosed with additional fractures.Laverty was immediately discovered to have fractured his left wrist, dislocated his right shoulder and sustained a blow to the head when he had a violent crash at the...

Aspar Ducati MotoGP rider Eugene Laverty sustained a broken wrist in a test crash at Jerez on Thursday.Laverty fell at the fast left-handed Turn 7 near the end of what would have been his penultimate day of running for 2015.A fracture to the radius on his left arm and a...

The Aspar team has announced it will switch from Honda to Ducati for the 2016 MotoGP season, retaining Eugene Laverty alongside Yonny Hernandez.Jorge Martinez's squad was originally a Ducati customer when it graduated from its ultra-successful programs in the feeder series to the premier class in 2010. It has fielded...

Yonny Hernandez will switch to the Aspar team in MotoGP next season. The 27-year-old Colombian will leave the Pramac Ducati squad after more than two seasons there, having joined the team for the last five races of 2013.Hernandez has been replaced at Pramac by British rider Scott Redding, who will...

Pramac Ducati rider Yonny Hernandez will miss the first MotoGP test of 2015 after dislocating his shoulder in a training incident. The Colombian crashed while riding on a dirt track, sustaining the injury to his left shoulder."Examinations showed microfractures without any lesions to ligaments and tendons," said a Pramac statement....

The factory Ducati MotoGP team has taken Pramac rider Yonny Hernandez under its wing and will give him an upgraded Desmosedici for 2015.Hernandez first joined Pramac as a stand-in for the injured Ben Spies during 2013, and stayed on for this season, when he raced a year-old bike alongside works-affiliated...

Yonny Hernandez set the pace for Pramac Ducati in a crash-strewn first MotoGP practice session at Misano.Heavy overnight rain, followed by steady morning drizzle, left the 2.6-mile circuit sodden and the tricky conditions caught out eight riders in the first 10 minutes of the session.Of these, Andrea Iannone and Pol...

Ducati officials refused to be comment speculation that it could radically change its strategy and run in MotoGP's new Open class from 2014.New general manager Luigi Dall'Igna indicated last month that the team's future could lie in the Open regulations, saying that Ducati needed to start work "immediately."Open class entries...