A DOMINANT display by world champion Jorge Lorenzo saw the Spaniard win the 2013 season opener at Qatar, while Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi unleashed some of the old magic to take second. Marc Marquez on the Repsol Honda took the remaining

YAMAHA TECH 3 rider Cal Crutchlow believes that the first race of the 2013 season will be a 'big battle', but that Honda will present the biggest challenge. Winter testing has generated a lot of speculation about who may or may not be in contention

Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa and myself have repeatedly shown [this].But Valentino is obviously fast and has a great experience.'Stoner left MotoGP at the end of last season, at the relatively young age of 27. He is now competing in V8 Supercars, Australia

SUZUKI have announced their intent to test their 2014 MotoGP entry in with the current MotoGP bikes at the Catalunya on the 17th of June 2013.Suzuki withdrew from MotoGP at the end of the 2011 season, unable to fund a team due to the financial

, Preziosi was under increasing amounts of pressure during the last two seasons when dream signing Valentino Rossi failed to win races on the struggling MotoGP machine.Audi, the new owners of Ducati, announced Preziosi's replacement last november in the form

REIGNING champion Jorge Lorenzowas the fastest man at the end of the first day test at Jerez, with a time 1m 47.423s.Lorenzo performed consistently throughout the wet test in southwestern Spain, spending the entire day out on track.The factory

of testing to finish on top of the timesheets at the second Sepang pre-season MotoGP group test.   Lorenzo set his benchmark time on the combination of the hard front and medium rear slicks to finish 0.280 seconds ahead of Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa, while