In this category you will find articles covering road racing events held on public road circuits. This includes reports from well-known events such as the Isle of Man TT, the North West 200 and other international road races.
The list below brings together race reports, background information, rider profiles and developments involving teams and organizers. In addition to sporting results, topics related to safety, organizational changes and technical aspects may also be covered.
This section provides a central overview of road racing content and allows direct access to current reports and analyses from this specific area of motorcycle racing.
The French Hill Climb Championship for motorcycles grows to eight rounds in 2027 and starts as early as the beginning of April in Brittany. Sancey and Rogliano, two venues with a long history, join the calendar, while the previous opener in Chanaz is missing.
The International Road Racing Championship has published its schedule for 2027 and is placing a new focus on the Czech Republic. Hořice features twice, Chimay only once, and the season finale takes place as usual in September at the Frohburger Dreieck.
Honda Racing UK goes into the 2027 road racing season with the same line-up as in 2026: Dean Harrison and John McGuinness will once again race the North West 200 and the Tourist Trophy. For Harrison it will be a particularly busy year, as he will also contest a full season in the Superbike class of the British Superbike Championship.
John McGuinness wants to keep racing in 2027, with the TT, the North West 200 and selected rounds of the British Superbike Championship in his sights. By his own account, the deciding factor is a race that ended for him under a red flag after just one lap in 2026.
The entry list for the 58th Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix is set, but two of the last three winners are missing. Ahead of the race on 21 November, all eyes are therefore on Peter Hickman, the only rider in the field who has stood on the podium in Macau in the past four years.
Michael Dunlop has published pictures and a video in which he fires up a Gilera 250 in Marco Simoncelli’s livery. The TT record winner is keeping his plans to himself, but there are signs of a race outing.
The first champion of the European Series Road Racing lines up at the Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix for the first time in November. With Kevin Keyes, a second road racer makes his debut on the street circuit.
The Honda SP-1 on which Joey Dunlop won the TT Formula 1 race in 2000 will be auctioned in Birmingham in November. Alongside it, the sister machine of John McGuinness from the Vimto team of the time also goes under the hammer.
The Isle of Man TT gets a new schedule for 2027 with nine races instead of ten. At its centre is the 100th Senior TT, which moves from Saturday to Friday and therefore no longer closes race week.
The 2027 Isle of Man TT runs from May 31 to June 12 and brings two major rule changes: sidecars return under new regulations, and the Sportbike TT says goodbye to the Supertwins. This page brings together everything about the 2027 TT and is updated continuously.
The Isle of Man TT will run its smallest solo class exclusively with Sportbike machines from 2027, ending 14 years of Supertwin racing. Teams with existing equipment still have a way to race on the same course, but at a different event.
The Isle of Man TT is putting sidecars back on the programme from 2027. The organiser ties the return to a new technical rulebook that breaks with the previous 600 cc formula.
Honda UK is launching a replica of the CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP to mark John McGuinness’s 30th TT anniversary. Fifteen road-legal units will be built at 37,730 pounds each, sold exclusively by invitation.
Michael Dunlop won the Senior Classic TT on Tuesday morning, taking his third victory of the 2026 Classic TT. Behind the result lies an unusual back story, because after a protest his team had to strip the Suzuki’s engine completely shortly before the finale.
Rob Hodson has won the first Junior 600 race at the Classic TT on the Isle of Man, setting the fastest lap of the race along the way. Behind him things turned dramatic, because the runner-up ran out of fuel shortly before the finish.
John McGuinness has won the Historic Senior race at the Classic TT 2026 on the Isle of Man. It was his first race victory since 2019, and it came in the year marking the thirtieth anniversary of his debut on the Mountain Course.
Michael Dunlop won both Classic TT races on Sunday afternoon and broke a nine-year-old lap record in the process. In the Ultra-Lightweight running alongside, a benchmark that had stood since 1993 also fell.
Paul Jordan has won the Historic Junior Classic TT on the Isle of Man for the second year running. The margin was comfortable, even though the Northern Irishman spent much of the race running only fourth.
The organiser has brought the entire Classic TT race schedule forward, squeezing every race into four days between Saturday and Tuesday. After three days of qualifying it is also clear who goes into the races as favourite in each of the six classes.
Two riders have lost their lives within 24 hours at the Manx Grand Prix 2026 on the Isle of Man. A third entrant is in a critical condition in a Liverpool hospital after a heavy crash on the opening day.
