2023

A deep dive into the background of how satellite MotoGP teams pick their manufacturer. Is it fair for Ducati to run eight bikes?

Turn 1 of India’s Buddh International Circuit caught out more grand prix riders than any other corner during the 2023 season.

While accepting that Sprint races are good for the show, many MotoGP riders would prefer Sprints not to be held at every round.

MotoGP’s long-rumoured revised system of technical Concessions has been announced.

Sam Lowes closed a ten-year chapter in grand prix racing at Valencia.

Casey Stoner wants MotoGP to “get rid of all” the advanced technology he feels is making the sport a championship for engineers rather than riders.

Gresini Ducati has become the first MotoGP team to announce a 2024 launch date.

Fabio di Giannantonio began the Valencia season finale with a debut MotoGP victory under his belt from Qatar but still didn’t know if he had a job for 2024.

By the MotoGP summer break, Franco Morbidelli was still within just seven points of Monster Yamaha team-mate Fabio Quartararo.

Among the last pieces of advice Marc Marquez gave to Honda before departing for Gresini Ducati was the need to increase engine performance if the RC213V is to fight for a MotoGP title again.

While Pol Espargaro isn’t ruling out a full-time MotoGP return in the future, he acknowledged that ‘one chapter is closing’ in his racing career.

Jorge Martin feels consecutive setbacks in Indonesia and Australia probably cost him the MotoGP World Championship to Francesco Bagnaia.

It’s not what the likes of Marc Marquez and Marco Bezzecchi will want to hear, but Gigi Dall’Igna predicts a bigger difference between the factory and year-old Ducatis for the 2024 MotoGP season.

Aleix Espargaro might be the oldest rider on the MotoGP grid and has never hidden his opposition to the ever-increasing calendar, but that doesn’t mean he intends to bow out at the end of 2024.

Enea Bastianini posted one of the surprises of the MotoGP season when, having failed to break the top six all year, he romped to victory in the Malaysian MotoGP.

Alex Marquez claimed he already knew what older brother Marc Marquez would say after his Ducati MotoGP debut.

The following tables show a breakdown of the official MotoGP spectator numbers for 2023 vs 2022.

Although Fabio Quartararo felt Yamaha delivered some ‘really positive’ aero updates at the Valencia MotoGP test, he warned ‘we are still very far from the top guys’.

To alleviate the log jam effect of raising the minimum grand prix age limits to 18, some exemptions have been widened for 2024.

As the saying goes, a good compromise is when the various parties are dissatisfied with something, and that’s roughly the case with the new MotoGP concessions ranking.

Miguel Oliveira was one of the first in a long line of riders to be linked to Marc Marquez’s vacant Repsol Honda MotoGP seat for the 2024 season.

After spending six years at his brother Valentino Rossi's VR46 team, in Moto2 and then MotoGP, Luca Marini makes a fresh start as a Repsol Honda rider in 2024.

The 2023 factory spec Ducati won 13 MotoGPs, 13 Sprints, and finished first and second in the world championship with Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin.

No rider has yet been crowned world champion in both MotoGP and World Superbike.