The Japanese marque has been without a customer outfit since the end of the 2022 season, when the former RNF squad elected to sign a multi-year deal with Aprilia.In recent years, the importance of strong satellite structures has become a key element for a manufacturer’s success in MotoGP – spearheadedContinue Reading
The retired 31-time MotoGP race winner stepped away from full-time racing at the end of 2018 but has made sporadic wildcard outings since joining KTM as a test rider.Pedrosa raced at the Spanish GP and San Marino GP in 2023, finishing fourth in the latter and seventh in the formerContinue Reading
From next year, the Japanese manufacturer will not be represented with a full works team in WSBK, but will continue to have an involvement in the championship as an official partner to the resurrected Bimota operation.As part of the arrangement, Kawasaki will supply the engine from its existing Ninja-10RR toContinue Reading
Ahead of the fourth event of the season at Jerez this weekend, Acosta is fourth in the standings, just two points behind third-placed Maverick Vinales and five points behind second-placed Enea Bastianini.The Spaniard is the best-placed of the four KTM riders, with factory man Brad Binder five points behind him inContinue Reading
The Japanese manufacturer has made an abysmal start to the new campaign on its radically overhauled RC213V package.Scoring just eight points out of a possible 111 from the opening three rounds, no Honda rider has cracked the top 10 yet in either sprint or grand prix.In last weekend’s Americas GrandContinue Reading
The bikes’ 1000cc engines produce 270hp but their tiny contact patches and lack of downforce relative to cars costs them dearly in lap time when compared to a Formula 1 machine.For example, Valtteri Bottas lapped his 2019 F1 Mercedes in 1m32.029s in qualifying for the US Grand Prix at Austin’sContinue Reading
Earlier this month, Quartararo inked a fresh multi-year deal with Yamaha, keeping him with the Iwata-based manufacturer until at least the end of the 2026 season.The new contract was agreed despite an underwhelming start to the new campaign for Yamaha, leaving the 24-year-old to fight for lower reaches of theContinue Reading
Bastianini is in the final year of his two-season contract with the factory Ducati squad and was spared demotion for 2024 by Pramac’s Jorge Martin not winning the title in 2023.Four times a grand prix winner in 2022 on the Gresini Ducati, Bastianini struggled for form in an injury-plagued campaign in 2023.But theContinue Reading
After 26 seasons at the helm of Yamaha, Britain’s Lin Jarvis revealed last weekend in an interview with Motorsport.com that 2024 will be his final year as the brand’s most senior executive. Before closing this chapter, Jarvis managed to extend 2021 world champion Fabio Quartararo’s contract until the end ofContinue Reading
Having looked rapid all weekend in Austin, polesitter Vinales was able to fight back from a first corner clash that dropped him to 11th to take an incredible victory in Sunday’s main race – his first as an Aprilia rider and the 10th of his career.It made him the firstContinue Reading