IT’S NOT AN exaggeration to say the Jerez Sprint was the most chaotic to date. Nine riders failed to finish and 15 crashed overall – a ludicrous number for a 12-lap race. The reason was the track hadn’t dried out completely before the race start, wit

WITH RACING red-hot on track, the rumour mill was in full swing off it. Much centres around the battle for the second factory Ducati seat for 2024. Enea Bastianini is being considered, as are Pramac’s Jorge Martin and Gresini’s Marc Marquez. Factory

It’s been a long time coming but Zontes has released the first of its three-cylinder models in the 703F adventure bike. Just on sale now in China for $A9500, it will be released globally. The culmination of a yearslong development which hopes to leap

Since the early 1950s the Pacific Highway has been the chief thoroughfare north out of Sydney, replacing the original route via the Wiseman’s Ferry punt that opened way back in 1829. The introduction of the Calga tollway in 1968 did two great things

The insane development speed of China’s motorcycle industry has seen a rash of new four-cylinder bikes from the country over the last few months – but now they’ve all been put to shame by a brand-new company with a bespoke flat-eight bike engine. Las

You’ve come from a top privateer team and now you’re working with the Yamaha factory team. What are the differences? In this era, the differences in performance between privateer and factory are almost non-existent. I think the difference is preparat

AFTER SYDNEY, I’d pretty much called it. I was finished in ASBK. There’s no point in going out there to finish 30 seconds off the lead and three seconds a lap off the pace – it’s a waste of money and a waste of everyone’s time. To have any chance of

JOSH NEWMAN has taken his Wet4U Race Fairings Kawasaki Ninja to the round win at Queensland Raceway, with the opening race win coming after a red-flag stoppage involving Jesse Stroud (Connect Homes) and Oliver Short (FuSport). Newman held on after th

Has Marc Marquez finally got his mojo back? It certainly looked like it at the Jerez MotoGP round when he duelled with defending champion Franceso Bagnaia.

Forty-seven countries and around 10 and a half million square kilometres. That’s Europe, about a third bigger than Australia and roughly the same size as the United States. Its 287 languages might not seem a big deal compared to Papua New Guinea, whe

Michael Dunlop was born half a century too late. In an age when many professional motorcycle racers spend their days away from racetracks training and tweeting, the 25-times Isle of Man TT winner still builds his own bikes, from the crankshaft up, dr

DEFENDING HIS crown amid the heightened competition on the 2024 MotoGP grid may be his toughest challenge yet but Pecco Bagnaia (Lenovo Ducati) demonstrated he’s more than up for the fight. In an all-time Spanish Grand Prix classic he resisted a seri

Bimota – now backed by the financial might of Kawasaki – has announced it will return to WorldSBK racing in 2025 with a new ZX-10RR-powered superbike that logically should go by the name KB5. With Kawasaki now at the helm, the financial woes that hav

Just when you thought every conceivable corner of the middleweight streetbike landscape has been covered, along comes the Husqvarna Svartpilen 801. Part scrambler, part roadster, part commuter, part flat-tracker, part high-tech hooligan and part eye-

From hero to zero. Vince Sharpe, top Kiwi production racer of the 1970s-1980s, won the Pukekohe Three Hour on this Honda CB1100R then binned it big-time after locking handlebars with Rod Harris’s Yamaha RD350LC at Manfield, the Honda hitting a concre

ON A ONE-YEAR-old Ducati, Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46) topped the offical one-day test at Jerez following the Spanish MotoGP round, the quickest of seven Ducatis in the top 10. Aprilia’s Maverick Viñales, in second place, lived up to his reputation o

THE 2024 Speedway Grand Prix series could not have started any better for Australian riders and fans as Jack Holder finally broke through for his first ever victory and Jason Doyle followed him home in the final. Jack Holder’s first victory in 23 SGP

Love him or loathe him, no one can argue that the first words out of Marc Marquez’s mouth after fighting with reigning world champ Pecco Bagnaia for victory at the Spanish Grand Prix aren’t as true as the season is long. The Northern Territory capita

Moto National $219.95 1300 885 355 airoh.motonational.com.au The Airoh Connor Achieve Pink Matt helmet is available in three shell sizes. It the meets ECE2206 standard, has a thermoplastic shell designed inside a wind tunnel, chin vent, top vents and

FERMIN ALDEGUER (Speed Up Boscoscuro) claimed a convincing first win of the season in front of a jubilant home crowd, demonstrating exactly why he is favourite to win this year’s crown. Even still, the stunning recovery of Joe Roberts (ART Kalex) wil

THIRTEEN YEAR-OLD Hunter Corney pieced together another dominant round, winning all three OJC races for a maximum points haul and a 38-point championship lead. Corney started by snatching pole position, before taking out the opening race by an unusua