MotoGP Features
In-depth MotoGP features and MotoGP exclusive articles from Crash.
'My target is to win MotoGP titles, not win a lot of races'
Marc Marquez in 2014: 'People remember how many titles you have won. Not how many races'. A fifth place in Portimao would give Marquez the same points as eventual champion Joan Mir after round 3 of last season...
Rookies dazzle in Qatar; a look through MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3
This past Sunday was certainly a weekend for the rookies in Qatar. Jorge Martin stunned everyone at Ducati, Pedro Acosta does something no other rider has done, and Moto2 sees three rookies clinch top tens including a podium.
Laverty previews MotoGP 2021: 'Phenomenal' Mir, Marquez delay, Ducati drag bike…
'The speed Ducati gets off the line with the rear and front down is incredible. It looks like a drag bike! Teams used to target 2.3s for 0-100k at a MotoGP start. If Jack drops into the 1.9s that's a whole new ball game' – Michael Laverty.
Marini: Miller 'makes Ducati MotoGP bike turn like a Yamaha', Zarco unique
MotoGP rookie Luca Marini explains the differences in riding style between fellow Ducati riders Jack Miller, Francesco Bagnaia and Johann Zarco.
Joan Mir: Braking, block passes, highlighter pens and karts
Frankie Carchedi, crew chief to Joan Mir, gives an insight into life alongside Suzuki's new MotoGP world champion.
Aprilia: 'This could be the year we catch the others' in MotoGP
Aprilia feels its MotoGP rivals are finally within reach heading into the 2021 season; 'we shouldn't have any real weak point'.
Factory-Spec Yamaha MotoGP chassis needs A-Spec 'turnability'
Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team manager Wilco Zeelenberg says Factory-Spec chassis lacked the 'turnability' of the A-Spec machine.
Morbidelli: MotoGP is a game, nothing is as big as friendship
Franco Morbidelli will race against new Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team-mate Valentino Rossi 'the same I have been racing against him all my life' but 'we need to remember that nothing is as big as friendship'.
Razali not afraid to 'bulldoze' Yamaha, 'deep collaboration' for 2022
'We felt we were just a paying customer and not a partner' - Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team principal Razlan Razali says tensions with Yamaha cleared ahead of 2021, new five-year deal proposed.
Petronas: 'Motorsport artist' Morbidelli can fight for MotoGP title
Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team principal Razlan Razali and director Johan Stigefelt explain why they believe staying on the A-Spec bike should be no barrier to success for Franco Morbidelli this season.
MotoGP electronics: 'Understanding bigger than engine controls'
Alex Rins' crew chief Jose Manuel Cazeaux explains why the biggest contribution made by MotoGP electronics is no longer in the areas of traction control or anti-wheelie but in understanding what is happening inside the bike.
'The Suzuki MotoGP way': Data sharing, parts guarantee, no secrets...
Suzuki MotoGP crew chiefs Jose Manuel Cazeaux (Alex Rins) and Frankie Carchedi (Joan Mir) explain why 'the rules of the game inside our garage' don't allow for a number 1 or number 2 rider.
Nakagami: This season we cannot make mistakes, 'hybrid' Honda MotoGP style
After three seasons of moving up the championship table on year-old Honda machinery, Takaaki Nakagami gets his big chance for 2021 in the form of promotion to the latest-spec RCV.
Alex Marquez: 'We were losing 7-seconds in the first 3 laps'
By the time the chequered flag falls at the Doha Grand Prix, MotoGP riders will have completed at least five days of testing at the Losail circuit followed by six days of grand prix action, over the opening race weekends.
Poncharal: I really believe an Independent team can win MotoGP title
Satellite MotoGP riders won more races than Factory team riders last season, by a score of 8–6. That's quite a milestone. To put it into perspective, there was a not a single satellite race winner in MotoGP from Toni Elias at Estoril in 2006 until Jack Miller at Assen in 2016.
Yamaha moves 2021 Factory MotoGP chassis 'closer to Morbidelli spec'
The gulf in performance between Franco Morbidelli and the Factory-Spec Yamaha riders during the end of last season prompted the likes of Maverick Vinales and especially Fabio Quartararo to wish they were also on the older A-Spec bike.
'Pedrosa really looking at MotoGP race distance, people learn a lot from him'
Test rider Dani Pedrosa has been credited by MotoGP riders both inside and outside of KTM for playing a key role in turning the factory's RC16 into a race-winning machine.
Fabio Quartararo: Covid, psychologist, Factory MotoGP pressure, having fun
After fighting off Covid over the winter, Fabio Quartararo made his first official appearance as a Factory Yamaha MotoGP rider during the team's 2021 online launch.
Stats: Joan Mir's qualifying compared to previous MotoGP champions
One of Suzuki's main targets for its 2021 MotoGP title defence is to do better during qualifying – and it's not hard to see why.
Joan Mir: 'Positive' pressure as MotoGP world champion
Joan Mir's historic world championship winning season for Suzuki was characterised by a slow start - DNFs in two of the opening three rounds - then staying rock solid as the pressure rose in the MotoGP title fight.
Rossi, Bagnaia and 3 more riders that really need a good 2021 MotoGP season
The 2021 MotoGP World Championship is looming but which riders head into the new season knowing they have something more to prove...
Zarco ponders 'possible' similarity with Lorenzo's Ducati MotoGP learning curve
In many ways, the 2020 season was a case of mission accomplished for Johann Zarco, who gave Avintia its first MotoGP pole position and podium (on a year-old GP19), securing his promotion to Pramac and the latest Ducati machinery for 2021.
Cal Crutchlow: I was different to the corporate MotoGP robots, it worked for me
It may not have been the 'corporate image' manufacturers wanted, but Cal Crutchlow has no regrets for speaking his mind throughout his MotoGP career.