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2020 was an unbelievable year for MotoGP. We saw nine unique winners, including five riders who took their first ever premier class wins. We saw rookies on the podium. We saw the rise of KTM, continuous engine struggles for Yamaha, and late-race dominance from the Suzuki team. So it should come as no real surpriseContinue reading “Portimao Review: A fitting end to a wild season”

Say what you will about the 2020 MotoGP season, but it has been a rollercoaster to watch. From Marc Marquez’s early injury, to Quartararo’s championship lead ebbing and flowing in the early rounds, to the nine different winners, and finally to Mir’s coronation in Valencia, this year’s racing has been one hell of a ride,Continue reading “Portimao Preview: 2020’s last dance”

Joan Mir is the 2020 world champion. After thirteen races, he amassed 171 points, including a win and seven podiums, and has sealed the deal on his first ever MotoGP title. At just 23 years of age, this makes him the seventh youngest premier class champion in history, and ends Suzuki’s twenty year barren runContinue reading “Valencia Roundup: A champion is crowned, and a last lap showdown”

Many MotoGP championships have been closed out before the final race of the season. It’s the one time where math nerds and racing nerds cross over: calculating exactly what results would be required for a rider to be crowned champion at any given time. Since most seasons recently have included between seventeen and nineteen races,Continue reading “Valencia Preview: Match point”

In 2017, the Valencian circuit played host to a championship decider between two MotoGP rivals that had lasted the whole season. Marc Marquez, then just a 5-time champion and defending his crown from the year before, showed up with a 21-point advantage over Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso, the pair having six wins each and a heftyContinue reading “Europe Roundup: A decisive blow, and a new best bike”

The stage has been set, the battle lines drawn. In March of this year races started to be cancelled, and MotoGP fans across the world began to worry about whether we would have a season at all. By April, most of us had given up hope that racing would happen in 2020. July saw theContinue reading “Europe Preview: The final countdown, at the Valencian battleground”

There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that this season has been the closest championship in modern MotoGP history. There have been an incredible eight winners over just eleven races, and the current points leader, Suzuki rider Joan Mir, has yet to score a win despite his six visits to the podium. Normally when weContinue reading “With three races to go, who’s going to win the 2020 MotoGP World Championship?”

The second MotoGP race held at the infamous Aragon circuit in 2020 was destined to be a thriller. The setup was all there: Nakagami showing blistering pace all weekend and smashing his way to a first pole; championship contenders Mir and Dovizioso starting from way down on the grid, forcing them to make up aContinue reading “Teruel Roundup: Handling the pressure, and the beginning of the end”

The 2020 season has introduced a factor that has not been relevant – or even existent – for almost the entire history of MotoGP, in the form of back-to-back races. A normal season of MotoGP racing involves the paddock travelling from country to country, having just a single weekend at each circuit to figure outContinue reading “Teruel Preview: Faster, closer, better racing”

You would be forgiven for heading into the Aragon round of the 2020 MotoGP thinking it was going to be dominated by the Yamaha riders. They showed up at the top of the timesheets for the entirety of the weekend, putting three riders in the top four positions of every practice session and qualifying. BesidesContinue reading “Aragon Roundup: A long-awaited return”