Motorsports

Whereas in the Isle of Man, the races are man against the clock, in the Irish Road Racing series, they have massed starts and ever more insanely narrow country roads to race on.

Argument has raged recently about how young is too young to race at international level. New rules introduced to the 300cc World SuperSport class are aimed at tackling the problems of safety.

MotoGP is leading the way by announcing that, by 2027, all fuels used in world championship racing must be biofuel or synthetic fuel.

John McGuinness has announced that he has joined the Honda factory team for the 2022 road racing series in Ireland and the Isle of Man. At 50 years old, is he over the hill or can he still cut it?

Yamaha has announced an exclusive club for owners of classic and vintage racing motorcycles.

Valentino Rossi will have received messages from millions of people - from the ordinary man in the street to royalty - upon his retirement but this one might just men the most to him.

Despite the age of 40 having come and gone, John McGuinness, Isle of Man TT legend, is not planning on hanging up his leathers just yet.

Car vs. Bike drag races are great, right? I mean, they have to be because the bike always wins. Well, they do until the car guys start cheating.

Of all the many disciplines in motorcycling, foot-up trials riding is possibly the most difficult. Tony Bou is the best in the world and what he can do with a motorcycle often defies the laws of physics.

If you thought the Isle of Man TT races were bad, wait until you see the Irish road races: narrower, faster, massed starts - it’s proper balls-out racing.

Fabio Quartararo puts together the perfect season to become France’s first World Champion in the premier class.

The most important model in Ducati’s history? Of course, it must be the 916. Or the 851? Actually, no. Without the bike we’re thinking of, neither of those would even exist and neither would Ducati in all likelihood.

With the long-anticipated announcement that Darryn Binder will move to MotoGP in 2022, that brings the number of family pairings on the grid to three.

Motorcycle racers crash, right? Lowside, highside, all end in smashed bikes and tumbling riders. Well, not always. Moto2 rider Bo Bensnyder performs a miraculous save in free practice for the Moto2 race in Misano, then calmly rides into the pits!

Have two wheels: will race. It doesn’t matter what the surface - tar, sand, mud - people have raced across it. Add in something that’s near vertical that you might struggle to walk up it and it attracts a different breed of madman.

KTM has a lot of brands it needs to push into the public eye. Not only is there Husqvarna and GasGas but also CFMoto, its Chinese partner, which is keen to make in-roads into the European market. Could the Austrian manufacturer be about to follow Ducati’s example and put more bikes on the MotoGP grid?

With only three races in the 2021 MotoGP season left to run, Valentino Rossi is trying to work out what life without racing will be like. All of his fans are wondering what racing without Rossi will be like.

How do you pick out the best racing moments from a decade of MotoGP races, with so many riders at the top of their game? MotoGP.com has had a go, however, and it just goes to show you how brilliant the racing so often is at the top.

Australia has produced more than its fair share of racing greats on two and four wheels. Here, three of the best go head to head in their respective vehicles: Casey Stoner on his Honda MotoGP bike, Mark Webber in his Red Bull Formula 1 car and Jamie Whincup in his V8 Supercar. Five laps and the F1 car has to lap the other two before the finish line.

Carlos Lago from Edmunds pits a brand new Tesla Model S Plaid, with 1000bhp against a Suzuki Hayabusa and a Kawasaki ZX-14R on the drag strip. We might be used to motorbikes pretty much destroying any supercar you care to mention but it seems that electricity might have the edge here.

After a gap of almost 30 years, Norton came back to the Isle of Man TT races with the rotary-engined NRS588 race bike. Riding it was Steve Hislop and against him was the blunt brilliance of Carl Fogarty on a Yamaha OW01 750cc. What followed was one of the greatest TT races ever.