The Repsol Honda Team has announced that it has re-signed Joan Mir for the 2025 and 2026 MotoGP seasons. The post Joan Mir Confirms Two-Year HRC MotoGP Renewal appeared first on BikeSport News ..read more

Leon Haslam endured another tricky weekend at the Brands Hatch BSB, despite top 10 finishes, as an "issue" limited his performances. The post Recurring "Issue" Limits Haslam at Brands Hatch BSB appeared first on BikeSport News ..read more

Ducati achieved a fourth-place finish at the Suzuka 8 Hours last weekend, and plans for the future could include Pecco Bagnaia. The post Could Francesco Bagnaia Race the 2025 Suzuka 8H Hours? appeared first on BikeSport News ..read more

Although the main headlines from the 2024 Suzuka 8 Hours race were taken by Honda, which won its 30th Suzuka crown despite a late penalty, the YART Yamaha team also made some history. In finishing second, the Austrian YART team, which has been the sole leading Yamaha team in the Endurance World Championship since GMT94 left EWC at the end of the 2018 season, took its first-ever podium at Suzuka, where it has also been designated as the official factory entry from Yamaha since the race returned from its 2020-21 Covid-induced hiatus. A late pit stop infringement penalty for the leading #30 Team ..read more

Trackhouse Aprilia has re-signed Raul Fernandez, who will remain with the American-owned team through the end of the 2026 MotoGP season. Fernandez has been with the Trackhouse team since it was RNF in 2023, having joined from Tech3 KTM in 2022 where he struggled, along with Remy Gardner. The improvements made by Aprilia in recent years have made its factory bikes among the most desired in MotoGP. Similarly, the improving form of Fernandez throughout this season, which saw him leading multiple laps in the Catalan Sprint, have been enough to convince Trackhouse that he should remain with them f ..read more

PTR Triumph rider Tom Booth-Amos has been declared unfit for the Czech round of the 2024 World Supersport Championship. Booth-Amos was running seventh in Race 1 on Saturday before running off and into the gravel on lap three, then coming back from 14th to ninth by the chequered flag, finally promoted to eighth after a penalty for Glen van Straalen. However, on Sunday morning the #69 was declared unfit with "possible acute gastroenteritis", according to a communication from WorldSBK, meaning he will not be able to contend Race 2. Booth-Amos is currently the top-placed Triumph rider in the cham ..read more

Sam Lowes has been ruled out of Race 2 at this weekend's WorldSBK Czech Round, following a crash in the Superpole Race. The crash saw Lowes lose control of his Marc VDS Ducati in braking for turn one, and high-sided as a result. Scott Redding was unfortunate to be caught up in the crash, but was unhurt. Lowes was shown by broadcast cameras to be mobile in the gravel trap following the crash, but was taken to the medical centre. There, he was diagnosed with a nondisplaced fracture of the left collarbone, and declared unfit as a result, ruling him out of Race 2. Lowes' crash was not the only hi ..read more

MIE Honda has announced an all-new line-up for this weekend's Czech WorldSBK, following injuries for both its regular full-time riders, Tarran Mackenzie and Adam Norrodin. Mackenzie was ruled out of the Superpole Race and Race 2 at the WorldSBK UK Round last weekend, and the timing could not have been worse. The WorldSBK calendar is littered with breaks between races of two weeks, three, and even more, but Mackenzie managed to be diagnosed with concussion in the first round of one of now two (since Estoril was brough in to replace Hungary the week before the final round in Jerez) sequences of ..read more

Alex Lowes scored his fifth and sixth podiums of the season at his home round of WorldSBK at Donington, something he considered reason enough to be "happy" with his weekend. Lowes was competitive from the beginning at Donington, and should have qualified on the front row for Race 1 and the Superpole Race, but for his best lap to be cancelled leaving him ninth on the grid. Nonetheless, he was able to finish second in Race 1, passing Nicolo Bulega and then holding off Alvaro Bautista late on, and then a fourth place in the Superpole Race gave him a better platform - the second row - from which ..read more

Jonathan Rea enjoyed his most positive weekend of the 2024 World Superbike season last weekend at the Donington WorldSBK, as he got on the podium for the first time as a Yamaha rider. Rea's speed was stronger than at almost any other round this year from the beginning of the weekend in FP1 for the WorldSBK UK Round, and a strong start in the Superpole Race put him in position to take that first podium in third place. Although Race 2 on Sunday proved that there is still work to be done for Rea and the Pata Yamaha team to make podium contention a regularity for the six-times champion, the Super ..read more