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MotoGP Aragon: Just Deserts

MotoGP headed to the desert-like terrain of Aragon for its annual #93fest. But which desert-dwellers did the riders most resemble? Let’s grab a 250ml mini bottle of water, fire up our knackered old Series 2 Land Rover and head into the arid hinterlands to find out!   Road Runner Who said “beep-beep” then bolted into…

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Is MotoGP in a Randomness Crisis?

Obviously, anything predictable is boring. Everything is more fun when random stuff happens. Like when your grocery delivery comes and that litre of vodka you ordered has a new design of security cap still firmly attached to the bottle. You can’t just drill it like the old kind, but you’re blessed with the novelty of…

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Rating The Rejects!

MotoGP will trim its toenails at the end of the year and consign some of its worst performing riders to the dustbin of history, or at least the wastepaper basket of World Superbike. Let’s rate how good these has-beens were at their peak and how awful they are this year. Maverick Vinales Races: 202 Wins:…

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MotoGP Hungry: Bingers and Purgers

The MotoGP buffet visited the country of Hungry, so let’s do a rundown on who was hungry and who was up-chucking their dinner to minimize their calorie count. Which legendarily hungry characters did riders resemble in the Hungry GP? The Sarlacc Pit Star Wars: Return of the Jedi introduced the Sarlacc. In the OG movie,…

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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…

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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…

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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.  …

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