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Yamaha have been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. With Franco Morbidelli still out of the picture due to injury, and with Maverick Vinales being let go from his contract thanks to the incident in Styria, the factory now finds itself two men down in the middle of a season where theyContinue reading “Yamaha’s woes, and a history lesson about relying on champions”

It’s been a dynamic year for Maverick Vinales. In the realms of rollercoasters of emotions, going from winning the opening grand prix of the season and announcing the birth of your first child to taking the chequered flag outside the points for the first time in your career and losing your seat in a factoryContinue reading “Vinales’ move to Aprilia is a smart call – especially if you look to the past”

I’ve been watching MotoGP for almost 20 years now. Admittedly, my memory of the first few years is a little bit sketchy given I was a child at the time, but I like to think I have a decent understanding of the important moments of the sport since the move away from 500cc engines inContinue reading “2021 Austria GP Review: Lashing rain, KTM success, and the best four laps we’ve seen”

Things just refuse to stay normal in MotoGP this year. We’ve had everything that could possibly go wrong happen this season, including qualifying antics, crashes ruling riders out for multiple rounds, and Quartararo’s chest protector flying off mid-race. We’ve somehow only managed to have one race from the first ten rounds where all 22 ofContinue reading “2021 Austria GP Preview: Drama before the lights go out”

Heading into the most recent MotoGP race weekend, the expectation was that a Ducati rider would win the race. It was a simple deduction, really; Ducati riders had won 5 of the 6 races held at the Austrian circuit in modern MotoGP history, and only lost on the sixth occasion due to a daring last-cornerContinue reading “2021 Styria GP Review: Martin pulls a stunner, Austria catches fire”

I was initially going to write this piece the day before the start of the Styrian race weekend, but then a piece of news dropped that shifted the focus of the entire weekend. Not often is there a revelation in the sporting world that was so heavily predicted by the media and the fans thatContinue reading “2021 Styria GP Preview: The end of an era, the start of the second half, and the dangers of the wet”

A number of people have posited over the last year or two that in today’s MotoGP, there is no such thing as a ‘Sunday Man’. In the past, qualifying was a less relevant part of a normal race weekend, as there were always certain riders that could be relied upon to get to the frontContinue reading “Cruising for a tow: the biggest issue with MotoGP in 2021”

It took exactly one weekend for the contract season of MotoGP to turn upside down. Maverick Vinales and Yamaha made a bombshell announcement, that they would be parting ways at the end of this season and cutting short what should have been a 2-year deal. It sent the entire community – and likely, many ofContinue reading “In all the chaos of the 2022 Silly Season, everyone has forgotten Iker Lecuona”

On Saturday evening, after qualifying had wrapped up, I was certain of who would win the 2021 Dutch MotoGP race. Or rather, I was certain of the bike that would win it. Maverick Vinales and Fabio Quartararo qualified first and second after dominating every single free practice session, which was an incredible turnaround for VinalesContinue reading “2021 Assen GP Review: Last dance before the Summer break”

From a track where one rider has stood tall above the rest for a decade, we move on to a track with a history of many and varied winners and some of the closest battles in modern day MotoGP. Last week’s race was a homecoming for a King, a divergence from the overarching plot ofContinue reading “2021 Assen GP Preview: Returning to the Cathedral”