Motorcycle Sport & Racing News

The 2018 Bennetts British Superbike Championship gets underway at Donington Park this weekend. Last week MCN sat down with most of the 2018 grid and put them on the spot for predictions ahead of the...

Jonathan Rea has said it would take something ‘special’ to see him move to MotoGP in 2019 despite numerous calls for the three-time World Superbike Champion to make the move to Grand Prix racing. The...

Jonathan Rea has tipped Leon Haslam and Glenn Irwin for success in this year’s Bennetts British Superbike Championship ahead of the opening round getting underway at Donington Park this year. The...

Ahead of the 2018 Bennetts British Superbike Championship getting underway at Donington Park, James Whitham chats about his expectations for the season ahead...  The competitiveness of BSB in the...

Guy Martin is set to break out his race leathers again this year and is confirmed as racing at both the Tandragee 100 and Cookstown 100 Irish road races. The Cookstown 100 takes place on April 27 and...

After a tough half season in Moto2, former British Supersport Champion Tarran Mackenzie takes on a new challenge for 2018 as he joins the McAMS Yamaha team to contest the Bennetts British Superbike...

The opening round of the 2018 Bennetts British Superbike championship marks the start of what is set to be a make or break season for Northern Ireland's Glenn Irwin after two up and down years in the...

Last season, Peter Hickman enjoyed his strongest Bennetts British Superbike campaign to date, securing a place in the Showdown for the first time and going on to secure fourth overall for the Smiths...

The first round of the 2018 Bennetts British Superbike Championship gets underway at Donington Park this weekend with qualifying and race action set to be broadcast live on Eurosport. As well as...

Three-time World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea was honoured by the Royal Automobile Club today as he was presented with the prestigious Torrens Trophy. Rea has won the award in recognition of his...

Bennetts British Superbike riders will have the benefit of an expanded front tyre selection from Pirelli when the 2018 season gets underway at Donington Park this weekend. As well as the softer and...

Leon Camier may have left Thailand disappointed to have missed the podium with fourth and sixth positions in this weekend’s two races, but the results are a huge success for the Red Bull Honda Team as...

Having finished the 2017 season just seven points off eventual champion Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne, Josh Brookes is gunning to go one place better this year after a switch to the factory-supported McAMS...

After missing out on the 2017 crown in such disastrous circumstances, Leon Haslam says he’s more fired up than ever before ahead of the 2018 Bennetts British Superbike Championship getting underway at...

Shane Byrne might be heading in to the 2018 Bennetts British Superbike Championship as the series’ most successful rider, but the six-time British Champion isn’t without motivation for the season...

Milwaukee Aprilia team principal Shaun Muir is commencing the difficult task of finding a substitute rider for the injured Eugene Laverty after it was confirmed that the Irishman is to miss the...

Eugene Laverty will miss the next three rounds of the 2018 World Superbike Championship after his horrifying crash in Thailand at the weekend. Laverty fell from his Milwaukee Aprilia at the Chang...

Michael Dunlop has signed an eleventh hour deal to ride for Tyco BMW in the superbike classes at this year’s international road races. The 15-times TT winner’s plans have been subject to much...

British Talent Team racer and reining British Motostar champion Tom Booth Amos says he’s taking the positives from his opening weekend in the Junior Moto3 World Championship at Estoril after crashing...

Maverick Viñales says he and his Movistar Yamaha crew have turned an important corner with their M1 machine as they struggle to return to the competitiveness he enjoyed twelve months ago. Starting...

Kawasaki have confirmed that 2012 Suzuka 8 Hour and three-time World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea will return to the famous endurance race this year to partner fellow Suzuka winner and British...

Alma Pramac Ducati rider Danilo Petrucci says he’s out to prove a point in the opening races of the 2018 MotoGP season, by turning a steady start to proceedings into a factory seat. Making a good...

Yamaha MotoGP boss Lin Jarvis has hit back at critics who’ve said that their deal to extend Maverick Viñales’ deal by two years came far too early for both rider and team. Announcing an extension to...

Eugene Laverty sustained a broken pelvis in a terrifying crash during today’s second World Superbike race in Thailand. The Milwaukee Aprilia rider fell from his RSV4 at turn six, five laps in to the...

Chaz Davies put the demons of his pre-season behind him by storming to victory in Thailand’s second WorldSBK race of the weekend on Sunday afternoon. The new regulations continue to deliver...

MotoGP’s 2018 rookies have stepped up to the mark in impressive form in the opening race of the season, with reigning Moto2 world champion Franco Morbidelli impressing by taking a strong finish in...

Valentino Rossi has sealed a new two-year extension to his Yamaha contract that will keep him racing until at least 2020 by taking an impressive podium finish at the opening race of the 2018...

WorldSBK Champion Jonathan Rea got back to winning ways in Buriram on Saturday, collecting his first victory of 2018 and his sixth from seven starts at the Chang International Circuit. Xavi Fores and...

Scott Redding’s nightmare debut on the Aprilia machine has continued into the first race weekend of the 2018 season, after never finding a comfortable setting on the RS-GP bike and eventually coming...

Jorge Lorenzo’s chances of taking his debut win on the Ducati twelve months after first making his debut on it were destroyed at Qatar when he was lucky to walk away from a crash out of his control.

Jodie Kidd and Matt Roberts will head up the all-new presenting line-up for the 2018 Isle of Man TT TV broadcasts. Kidd, who has previously hosted Channel 5’s ‘The Classic Car Show’ will front the...

Ian Hutchinson has admitted he still doesn’t know whether he’ll be fit for this year’s TT as he continues to recover from the injuries he sustained after crashing out of last year’s Senior...

World Supersport legend Kenan Sofuoglu will decide over the next few weeks whether or not to continue his racing career after a succession of heavy crashes, MCN can reveal. The Turk has admitted he...

World Superbike Champion Jonathan Rea was back on top in Thailand after Friday’s three practice sessions ahead of this weekend’s second round of the season. The visit to Thailand’s Chang...

Mugen has today confirmed their trio of riders as they bid to lock out the podium in the 2018 Isle of Man TT Zero race. The Japanese manufacturer has won the electric race for the last four years with...

Former world champion and BT Sport pundit Neil Hodgson says that he’s expecting fireworks before long as the fight between marc Marquez and Andrea Dovizioso for the 2018 MotoGP championship carries on...