Will Luca Marini Be 2027 MotoGP World Champion?
There will be a big shake-up in MotoGP for 2027. New engine rules, new aero rules, new tyres. But one of the new rules that is being mooted would seem to guarantee that the 2027 World Title will be won by Valentino Rossi’s half brother Luca Marini. Let’s investigate! Tell us about Luca Marini….
Winners & Losers: Catalan GP
Winners Alex Marquez It’s hard to imagine how going from “title favourite” to “broken neck and not a title favourite” could ever realistically be classed as a win. But somehow, against all logic, it is. Bravo, universe. The hideous crash — courtesy of KTM’s masterful USB-C-to-ECU disconnection skills — saw Marquez Lite career out of…
The French MotoGP Awards
The Rude Waiter Award French waiters: arrogant pricks who treat you like a stain in their sacred dining hall. Wave for the bill and you get a glare that screams “Disappear, bastard.” They live to humiliate you while fleecing you for bread and a €12 bottle of water that tastes like it was filtered through…
Morbidelli 2.0: Is Marc Marquez set to be the new Franco?
Sadly, it looks almost certain that the clumsy Italian-Brazilian hybrid Franco Morbidelli will be unceremoniously booted out of the MotoGP circus at the end of the season. This is devastating news for our team here at MGPNews — statistically speaking, we rely on the zany antics of Morbidelli for over 73% of our ‘jokes’. Without…
Jerez Sprint: Marc’s Legality Distortion Field
MotoGP shocked everyone at Jerez by producing a genuinely exciting sprint race. There were a lot of talking points, but the main one was Marc Marquez’s incredible ability to find new rules to break using his Legality Distortion Field. What’s a “Distortion Field”? The phrase comes from former Apple head honcho Steve Jobs, who…
Should MotoGP switch to pedal power during the fuel crisis?
What’s happening? With the punch-up in the Middle East showing no real signs of stopping, the entire western world is being plunged into an energy crisis which could seriously limit our morning oat lattes. With the US having poked the Persian hornet’s nest, Iran decided to close the Strait of Hormuz faster than a KTM…
MotoGP COTA: Winners and Losers
MotoGP visited the land of The Donald (and also The Mickey and The Pluto) for the rootin’ tootin’ United States GP at the Circuit Of The Americas (formerly known as the Circuit Of The Mexicos). The track changes from year to year due to subsidence so bad that it has turned the trackside railway into…
Exclusive: Phillip Island Emails Revealed
Thanks to our elite team of investigative journalists, MGPNews can exclusively reveal a cache of emails that may explain the reasons why Phillip Island has been dropped from the MotoGP calendar from 2027. The heavily redacted emails consist of correspondence between major MotoGP figures and the new head of communications at the Aussie circuit. …
Winners and Losers: Thailand
Winners Aprilia: Dare we dream? It’s not that we want Ducati to fail…well maybe it actually is, but more than anything MotoGP fans deserve at least one other manufacturer capable of regularly winning. And we at MGPNews couldn’t wish for a better choice than Aprilia. Why? Because their bike looks like the lovechild of a…
Farewell Phillip Island, hello Adelaide: MotoGP’s guide to ruining a perfect thing
It’s only gone and happened. Labia Media have officially dumped the best track on the MotoGP calendar and will replace it with a coma-friendly street circuit in 2027. Seriously? What’s happening? We find out… So what’s this Phillip’s Island place? Ask any true MotoGP fan what their favourite track is and most would say…
