MotoGP is set to unveil its new regulations for 2027 in the coming days - bringing to a conclusion months of negotiations between the series’ manufacturers and heralding the biggest modification to the championship since the introduction of the current 1000cc bikes in 2013. It also potentially marks the final step needed for BMW to formalise its intentions to join MotoGP in the coming years - amid speculation the Bavarian marque has already told series bosses Dorna that it intends to enter the premier class when the new rules come into effect. The result of months of work behind the scenes i ..read more

Coming into a new MotoGP season, it’s not unusual to see the previous year’s machines outperforming newer bikes as teams settle in. That’s been an exception in 2024 with Ducati, considering how fast the GP24 bike is - but with one of the riders on the older GP23 consistently in the mix with those on the newer spec, there might be a headache coming soon for factory boss Gigi Dall’Igna as he tries to solve his Marc Marquez dilemma. Ducati’s progression so far in 2024 has been something of a mixed bag, despite last year’s championship contender Jorge Martin enjoying a comfortable points lead on ..read more

Ever since arriving in MotoGP only a few months ago, American team Trackhouse has been adamant that while it has goals of signing home talent and getting a US rider back on the premier class grid, that has to happen through natural progression rather than by promoting someone not yet ready for MotoGP to a seat that they might struggle in. And that’s looked like a long-term project, given the lack of obvious US stars in the pipeline. But Californian native Joe Roberts has finally found his form in Moto2, taking the first back-to-back podiums of his career across the most recent two rounds at P ..read more

MotoGP's 2021 world champion Fabio Quartararo qualified 16th, finished 15th in the sprint and 12th in the grand prix at the first round after he committed his future to Yamaha until at least the end of 2026. That was a long way behind the bike he'd turned down. Aprilia - in Quartararo's old Yamaha team-mate Maverick Vinales's hands - dominated the sprint from pole and came back from 11th at the first corner to win the grand prix too. So it's just as well Quartararo is adamant his focus is on helping improve his factory Yamaha M1 rather than race results for now, as the team returns to Europe ..read more

MotoGP begins the European leg of its 2024 season at Jerez this weekend, and that's often when the championship takes on its defining shape. But several riders arrive in Spain fighting for their futures and several teams fighting to salvage their seasons already. On this week's episode of The Race MotoGP Podcast, Matt Beer invites Simon Patterson and Valentin Khorounzhiy to nominate the riders or teams they think are in most trouble after the opening three rounds - and to assess the extent of their plight on a 1 to 5 ranking where 1 = 'will be fine by Mugello in June' and 5 = 'may as well wri ..read more

It is increasingly a possibility, if MotoGP paddock speculation is to be believed, that there will be two fewer Ducatis on the 2025 grid after all. Ducati's long-time satellite partner Pramac - the 2023 outright teams' champion - is understood to be seriously tempted by a dramatic switch to Yamaha. If that move comes off, it will inevitably trigger a whole host of changes up and down the grid for Ducati given Pramac is currently top of its customer pecking order and gets the latest-specification works machinery. And while some of those consequences might actually work in Ducati's favour by st ..read more

Pedro Acosta's mind-boggling early-2024 MotoGP heroics are potentially adding a new context to a grand prix he had absolutely nothing to do with. September 2023. Dani Pedrosa, who will turn 38 later that month, rocks up to his second wildcard appearance of the season at Misano. He was already strong at Jerez, his first round of 2023, but he is stronger still here. He qualifies as the top KTM, ends the sprint as the top KTM and ends the grand prix as the top KTM. OK, KTM full-time lead rider Brad Binder does him a 'solid' by crashing while ahead of him in the race, and there's the factor of P ..read more

A year and a day on, Alex Rins' second Grand Prix of the Americas win remains the unlikeliest in recent MotoGP memory. There's some serious competition, and you don't have to go that far back for a clear bigger upset win - Jack Miller at Assen in 2016, also on a customer Honda. But the nature of Rins' COTA 2023 triumph firmly cemented him as not just a rider with an affinity for the Austin track but as a true savant of the very particular 5.5-km venue. Both of his premier-class triumphs at COTA (where he also won in Moto3 and Moto2) took outside assistance in the form of the runaway leader c ..read more

Sunday’s Grand Prix of the Americas at Austin was about as good an advertisement for MotoGP as you could ever hope for - with frenetic action, tonnes of passes for the lead, and an exciting host of of storylines playing out between various protagonists at the front. And, coming only days after the news of the provisional sale of MotoGP owner Dorna to Formula 1 owner Liberty Media, it should act not just as a vindication of the purchase but of an example of everything that MotoGP can be as an asset - both good and bad. On track, Liberty really couldn’t have hoped for a better weekend to celebr ..read more

There's a lot of competition given its recent years in varying degrees of 'crisis mode' but watching the Hondas at the Circuit of the Americas this past weekend suggested that, from a purely competitive standpoint and considering relevant competitive implications, it might have well have been Honda's worst-ever weekend in the premier class. A year on from the RC213V winning in the hands of Alex Rins, in what was just his third grand prix start on a Honda, its newer version basically wasn't at the races. A Honda was last in every session - except for Q2, which obviously none of them made it to ..read more