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The MotoGP Group has appointed Carlos Ezpeleta deputy Chief Executive Officer. His father Carmelo remains CEO, which officially moves the 35-year-old into second place in the leadership structure of the motorcycle world championship.

Tech3 has signed Luca Marini as its first rider for the 2027 MotoGP season. The Italian is leaving the Honda factory team after three years and will ride a KTM from now on.

Fermin Aldeguer stays with Ducati until the end of 2028 and moves from Gresini to Valentino Rossi’s team for the 2027 season. There he gets a current factory bike for the first time, and with it the same machinery as Marc Marquez and Pedro Acosta.

Maverick Vinales will not be on the KTM RC16 at the Grand Prix of Aragon either. Pol Espargaro stands in for the second time in a row, and the team is now naming Misano as the new target.

Suspension manufacturer Öhlins has been collecting data from almost every MotoGP rider for decades. Racing director Jonas Torstensson has now explained what separates Marc Marquez, Valentino Rossi and Pecco Bagnaia from a technical point of view.

Ten races in 13 weeks will decide the 2026 MotoGP title, and six riders still have a realistic chance. The restart in Aragon lands on a circuit that suits one of the chasers considerably better than the championship leader.

Netflix is developing an action film set entirely in the world of MotoGP. Alan Ritchson takes the lead role, and the screenplay is being written by one of the key writers of the Fast & Furious franchise.

Johann Zarco climbs back onto his Honda at the Grand Prix of Aragón, a good three months after his heavy crash in Barcelona. The return is only cleared, however, once he passes the medical check at the circuit on the Thursday before the race weekend.

Pedro Acosta explains openly why he deliberately avoids closeness in the MotoGP paddock and why his patience with KTM ran out. On 1 December he rides the Ducati for the first time, alongside a team-mate he has been compared with since his Moto3 days.

Ducati is bringing hardly any new parts to the track for the current Desmosedici GP26. Test rider Michele Pirro explains why he considers the project finished and how that can affect the final races of the season.

Four riders speak openly about the coming season, and their assessments differ widely. While Cal Crutchlow blames the tyre for what is really wrong with the racing, Toprak Razgatlioglu already sees Yamaha’s new project on a good path.

Miguel Oliveira rates Marc Marquez as the greatest rider of all time and sees only one serious rival in the young generation. The MotoGP chief medical officer offers an explanation that has less to do with talent than with the mind.

Günther Steiner expects MotoGP to take a small step back with the new 850 cc engines before two steps forward follow. Test rider Pol Espargaro even reckons the pecking order among the riders could shift considerably.

MotoGP is sticking with two motorcycles per rider even after the major rule change. The push by Aprilia and Ducati to cut the number of machines failed against resistance from KTM.

Ducati has released the Silverstone review from its own web series, and in it Marc Márquez sounds considerably more worried than he did in front of the microphones. The garage footage shows a world champion fighting for control of his right arm – and a team-mate in pain in every right-hand corner after surgery.

MotoGP no longer rules out holding the Grand Prix of Qatar in another country. A decision is due by the end of August, and it would also affect the end of the season.

Pedro Acosta finishes the British Grand Prix fifth, better than Friday’s two crashes suggested. Behind the result, however, lies a clear message to his employer that he had already delivered during the summer break.

Triumph has developed a new race engine for Moto2, but the matching production motorcycle does not exist yet. The manufacturer now rules out that the unit is derived from the Trident 800 or the Tiger Sport 800.

The result of the British Grand Prix was only settled hours after the chequered flag. A time penalty for Fabio Quartararo shifted every classification from 12th place down, and in the pit boxes it then became clear what really lay behind the performances of Marco Bezzecchi and Raul Fernandez.

Raul Fernandez controlled the British Grand Prix at Silverstone from the first lap to the last and led Aprilia to a clean sweep of the podium. Behind the winner, a race with seven retirements clearly shifted the balance of power at the top of the championship.