Moto GP News

Repsol Honda´s Dani Pedrosa set the pace in this morning´s warm-up before the Gran Premio bwin de España. More...

In order to ensure the highest standards of medical services to the riders in the FIM MotoGP™ World Championship, the FIM and Dorna Sports SL have agreed a significant development in the provision of medical services at Grand Prix events. More...

Reigning World Champion Casey Stoner took his first ever premier-class victory at the Gran Premio bwin de España as he fought an epic battle with championship rival Jorge Lorenzo. More...

Qualifying at the Jerez circuit was the first dry session of the weekend and the Repsol Honda riders wasted no time on setting up their RC213V machines. More...

Randy de Puniet places highest of CRT riders in qualifying for MotoGP race. More...

The qualifying session for the MotoGP round in Jerez de la Frontera featured unpredictable weather conditions, as had been the case in all of the free-practice sessions. Nicky Hayden posted the third-best time on a mainly dry track, earning a spot on the front row with Lorenzo and Pedrosa, while Valentino Rossi was unable to replicate Friday’s very strong wet performance and finished with the thirteenth-best time. More...

Florian Alt won a 5-man battle for victory at the final corner to claim the first race in the 2012 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. The 15 year old German stole the advantage from Pole man Marcos Ramirez and fellow 14 year old Spaniard Diego Perez to stand on top of the podium in Jerez and open the Spanish Grand Prix weekend. More...

After a wet practice session the weather during the qualifying gave riders a little break, even if the weather forecast here at Jerez de la Frontera, doesn’t promise anything good for tomorrow’s race.? More...

Yamaha Factory Racing rider Jorge Lorenzo is yet again the man to beat after a thrilling qualifying session for the Grand Prix of Spain at Jerez this afternoon. Race fans witnessed an incredible 29 changes of provisional pole position as the riders fought it out on ever changing track conditions. More...

Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team rider Cal Crutchlow produced another inspired qualifying performance at the Circuito de Jerez this afternoon to finish just 0.007s away from claiming a stunning second successive MotoGP front row start in 2012. More...

Mixed conditions again threatened to spoil the MotoGP action at Jerez today but in the end the rain stayed clear long enough for a dry qualifying practice. More...

Qualifying at the Jerez circuit was the first dry session of the weekend and the Repsol Honda riders wasted no time on setting up their RC213V machines. More...

MotoGP™ qualifying at the Gran Premio bwin de España was a thrilling affair as Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo took pole position in front of his home crowd in a frantic battle to the end with compatriot Dani Pedrosa. More...

Mixed weather on the opening day of the Spanish Grand Prix made for difficult conditions at Jerez. Alvaro Bautista completed only a handful of laps in the damp this morning but spent most of the afternoon session lapping on the fully wet track. The conditions were certainly not beneficial to the team's CRT project, which is in desperate need of dry track time to develop the bike. More...

Marcos Ramirez, the 14 year old Spaniard, snatched pole position for Saturday's first race in the 2012 Red Bull MotoGP™ Rookies Cup from British 14 year old Bradley Ray with the last lap of qualifying. Along with them on the front row is Diego Perez, another 14 year old from Spain. More...

In similar conditions to yesterday´s rain-affected session, Repsol Honda´s Dani Pedrosa led the final MotoGP™ free practice this morning ahead of compatriot Jorge Lorenzo. More...

The Grand Prix of Spain got underway today at Jerez with mixed weather conditions providing a frustrating experience. More...

The Grand Prix of Spain, second round of the 2012 MotoGP™ World Championship, got under way at Jerez circuit today with Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa, who makes his 100th premier class start on Sunday, leading the time sheets with a fastest lap of 1'50.780, and team mate Casey Stoner in fourth position. More...

The Ducati Team enjoyed a good start to the Spanish MotoGP™ weekend in Jerez de la Frontera, with Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden very fast from the beginning. Bad weather affected the day from the beginning, with morning conditions being neither completely wet nor completely dry. This made the first session useless for both Rossi and Hayden, who elected to stay in the garage. More...

Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team riders Andrea Dovizioso and Cal Crutchlow began their preparations for the start of the European phase of the 2012 MotoGP World Championship in challenging and unpredictable conditions at the Circuito de Jerez in Spain today. More...

Repsol Honda Team´s Dani Pedrosa topped the timesheets in the second practice session of the MotoGP™ Championship at the Gran Premio bwin de España at Jerez, as the riders once again had to cope with very mixed conditions. More...

Ambient temperatures of just 17°C and sporadic rain meant that the vast majority of the MotoGP™ grid did not head out on track for the first practice session of the Gran Premio bwin de España in Jerez. CRT rider Iván Silva was one of the only riders to lap consistently as he undertook the first shakedown of his new BQR-Inmotec bike. More...

MotoGP™ championship leader Jorge Lorenzo was joined by reigning World Champion Casey Stoner, Nicky Hayden, Cal Crutchlow and CRT rider Randy de Puniet at the press conference marking the second MotoGP™ round at the Gran Premio bwin de España in Jerez. More...

Get a head start with MotoGP™ stats and figures about the upcoming Gran Premio bwin de España in Jerez. More...

The Power Electronics Aspar Team return to familiar territory this weekend at Jerez, where the Italian-made ART machine has already completed hundreds of laps in preseason testing around a circuit that is more favourable to its characteristics. More...