these are the Monster Energy for around £2.5 million.From the world of motorsport the seven-time MotoGP champion is one place behind Formula One's top earner Fernando Alonso. The Ferrari driver is in 19th with £20.5 million.Heading the wealthy athletes list is boxer

FOLLOWING a highly competent performance for second place at Phillip Island, Jorge Lorenzo has become the first Spaniard ever to win two world titles.After title rival Dani Pedrosa crashed disappointingly in the second lap of the penultimate race

.CEO for the circuit, Paolo Poli said: ”Mugello Circuit wants to remember a champion who deeply loved this track and on which corners he wrote unforgettable pages in the history of motorcycling.“The Italian GP takes place in two weeks time on July 15th.

place, the only redeeming factor is he's the highest placed Ducati rider.Factory Yamaha rider Ben Spies sits a distant 11th in the championship.MotoGP Championship standings after Catalunya: Round 5POSITION    RIDER    TEAM    POINTS1    Jorge Lorenzo

AT the British Grand Prix Paul Bird revealed that his team will contest the CRT class with its own chassis next season.Speaking to MotoGP.com at Silverstone, the PBM team owner said that the team will have its own chassis ready by the end

SHOULD Jorge Lorenzo finish on the podium at Assen he will overtake Valentino Rossi in the MotoGP record books for podium finishing rate.The factory Yamaha rider has taken 50 podium places in his 73 races in the premier class, giving him a

LORENZO starts to carve out a gap to Pedrosa, while Stoner's poor result means he starts to come under pressure from Dovizioso who's recently hit form and scored a third place at Mugello.Rossi still highest placed Ducati in sixth.MotoGP Championship

, Crutchlow, Barbera and Hayden, all six within 2-seconds of each other.Edwards has proved he's back to full strength with a 12th place finish, the second CRT behind Randy de Puniet. Britain's James Ellison took the last points-scoring finish in 15th.MotoGP

DORNA has announced changes to MotoGP qualifying in 2013, a move that will give privateer teams more TV coverage and therefore sets out to encourage more CRT teams into the sport.MotoGP's tiered qualifying is less straight forward than that in F1

A RUMOUR from a reputable Italian journalist on Facebook suggest that Ducati has an Audi-influenced eye on picking up Stefan Bradl for the 2014 season, as reported by GP-Inside.com.The MotoGP rookie has been impressive in his debut in the premier