MotoGP’s four-stroke era enters its 20th season in 2021, so here are the biggest winners, plus why MotoGP technical rules will remain unchanged till 2026

KTM was MotoGP’s biggest improver last year – the factory scored its first-ever MotoGP victory at Brno in August and by the end of the season had won as many…

Everyone knows that turning performance has been Ducati’s biggest concern for years. Whatever factory engineers have done to make the Desmosedici turn better and faster through corners hasn’t worked, so…

Davide Brivio was absolutely key to Suzuki’s 2020 MotoGP championship victory, so his departure to Renault’s Formula 1 team is a huge blow to the factory. The former Yamaha MotoGP…

You won’t find many MotoGP riders that prefer a fire-breathing V4 to an easy-going inline-four, but Pol Espargaró is one of them. Espargaró contested his first three seasons in MotoGP…

When Joan Mir was crowned MotoGP champion last November he was the first Red Bull Rookie to conquer bike racing’s highest peak. And when the 2021 grand prix season gets…

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The highlights from a season like no other: some of the best of Mat Oxley's Motor Sport columns from 2020

Joan Mir won the 2020 MotoGP World Championship, but was he the strongest rider last season?

There were two things that got MotoGP commentators and fans particularly excited last season: the unpredictability of the racing and the incredibly close lap times, with the fastest 15 riders…

A motorcycle cartwheels down the track and into the dirt. Medics arrive on the scene. They lay the injured rider on a stretcher and load him into an ambulance. Sirens…

Only two riders in MotoGP history have won championships by winning every race for a 100 per cent points score. This year’s champion Joan Mir scored less than 50 per cent of the available points…