Friday practice for the Americas Grand Prix was a dream for anybody looking to upset the nascent 2025 form book: a genuine riders’ track that got doused with rain and then gradually dried. For racers and crews who may struggle under normal circumstances, it was a gift as generous asContinue Reading
Ducati general manager Gigi Dall’Igna has hit out at his Aprilia counterparts for how they revealed their request to allow world champion Jorge Martin to test aboard his MotoGP bike ahead of his return from injury.Senior Aprilia figures Paolo Bonora (team manager) and Massimo Rivola (CEO) first raised the proposalContinue Reading
World champion Jorge Martin revealed that he was afraid he might never ride again during the lowest moments of his current injury layoff.Martin crashed in a pre-season training ride and will not attempt to race for his new team, Aprilia, until the next (and fourth) event of the season inContinue Reading
Romano Albesiano’s move to Honda this season will make a difference to the Japanese factory’s technical agility and help it to stay in the development race, according to the marque’s leading rider, Johann Zarco.Albesiano joined the HRC factory squad at the start of the 2025 season after an 11-year stint in theContinue Reading
A few days ago, at the launch of a new sports road bike in Rome, Ducati Team CEO Claudio Domenicali claimed that Francesco Bagnaia’s season would really begin in Qatar — where a run of tracks more suited to his taste begins.The two-time world champion endorsed the thesis on Thursday,Continue Reading
The Honda MotoGP team manager Alberto Puig is set to skip a third successive grand prix as he will be absent from Austin this weekend.Puig is recovering from another surgery on his left leg, which had already caused him to miss the first two events of the season in ThailandContinue Reading
The 31-time grand prix winner Dani Pedrosa is preparing to return to MotoGP action in a private test for KTM in mid-April.Pedrosa will test for KTM over two days between 8-11 April, depending on weather conditions, before the Spaniard joins the rest of the MotoGP grid at the first officialContinue Reading
4 riders have truly mastered the rodeo of the Americas GP. Marc Marquez is a clear favourite with 7 wins, can anyone dethrone the King of COTA? SourceContinue Reading
Until Lewis Hamilton landed at Maranello this past January, Charles Leclerc was widely seen as the cornerstone of the Scuderia’s project. The Monegasque driver joined the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2016, two years before making a low-key Formula 1 debut in 2018 with Sauber.Similarly, Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia started in MotoGPContinue Reading
Marc Marquez is in favour of allowing MotoGP riders to test their current bike before returning from an injury – but does not want the rule to be introduced right now.During last weekend’s Argentina Grand Prix, Aprilia lodged a special request to allow its star rider Jorge Martin to testContinue Reading