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The 2025 MotoGP Sprint Race at Phillip Island went down in the record books as the first race to be won with a passenger since the welcome and widely-celebrated demise of sidecars in the Grand Prix paddock. MGPNews brings you an exclusive interview with Marco Bezzecchi’s wingman, Robbo The Seagull. MGPN: G’day, Robbo! Can you…
The Ute Award The Australian Ute is the mullet of motors: slick sedan vibes up front, wild tradie party tray in the back. Born in the ‘30s when a farmer’s wife demanded a ride to haul pigs and look pious at church, Ford Australia birthed this bogan beauty. It’s the vehicular lovechild of a Flatbed…
When it comes to arm and shoulder injuries no one knows more about it than Marc Marquez. So, whilst recovering from yet another hideous injury, the 2025 MotoGP World Champion has been helping others out with their arm-related issues. Alessandro Nannini (Former F1 driver) Hello Dr Marquez You may remember me as being the driver…
The Corpse Flower Award The Indonesian Corpse Flower (Titan arum), nature’s prankster with a PhD in stench, blooms once in a blue moon, unleashing a scent like rotting gizzard seepage mixed with regret. This towering floral fiend, often called the “diva of decay,” can grow up to 12 feet tall, luring curious pollinators (and horrified…
The best way to explain anything in this day and age is with internet memes. But what’s the best way to explain what happened in the Japanese MotoGP round, and the subsequent World Championship victory? With memes, duh!!! Let’s do this! …
If the internet has taught us anything it’s that the internet knows best. The classic comment “do your own research” 100% proves this. Marc Marquez may have won his 7th or 9th world championship in Japan…but something wasn’t quite right. Luckily hundreds of eagle-eyed MotoGP sleuths were quick to spot abnormalities in the race at…
Changes are already happening in the MotoGP world under its new Liberty Media ownership. In this article we analyse the What, Where, How and Huh? S – Standing for the national anthem When motorcycle racers assemble at the front of the grid before a race, you immediately know that they’ve done it to honour…
This week it was announced that Ducati have rummaged around in the spare parts bin to find enough extra bits to offer Alex Marquez a full factory spec machine for 2026. Marquez Lite has easily impressed enough this season so far to deserve this – but is this a blessing or a curse? Let’s find…
What was it like to be a fan at the MotoGP race at Misano? We asked one lucky Italian to write a diary for us covering aspects from the Practice, Qualifying, Sprint Race and Main Race! Let’s find out what happened and what he said about it Practice Yamaha V4 For countless years the Yamaha…
It’s not escaped anyone that Pecco Bagnaia seems to be getting worse. At the beginning of the season the beard-shod Italian could usually salvage in a podium finish behind either of the Marquez antichrist brothers that hadn’t fallen off. But not now. Now Baggers can’t even manage to scrape through into Q2 and can usually…