Australian Motorcycle News

KTM has landed two of MotoGP’s hottest names for the new 850cc era as the Austrian factory team looks to reset its fortunes KTM has made a major statement ahead of MotoGP’s looming technical reset, confirming Alex Marquez and Fabio Di Giannantonio will join Red Bull KTM Factory Racing from 2027 on multi year deals.

Bayliss claimed another BSB Supersport Feature race victory at Snetterton, while it was heartbreak for Jack Mahaffy Oli Bayliss finished the Snetterton round with a 2-1 scoreline after taking second in the Supersport Sprint before delivering a dominant win in the Feature race. The weekend’s first race saw Luke Stapleford edge Bayliss in a tense 10-lap Sprint, sealing victory by just 0.024secs after a fierce final-lap battle.

Nicolò Bulega led the way in Ducati’s blue-riband World Ducati Week race at Misano, with Marc Marquez and Australia’s Josh Waters among the big-name starters Nicolò Bulega extended his unbeaten 2026 run with a commanding performance at the Lenovo Race of Champions at Misano, taking top honours in one of the headline events of World Ducati Week 2026.

A mid-race charge from the Yamaha Factory Racing Team couldn’t prevent Honda HRC taking an 32nd 8-Hour win in one of the wettest, most incident strewn events in memory Jack Miller and the Yamaha Factory Racing Team stormed back to finish second in a sodden 47th Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours, but their stirring late charge could not stop Honda HRC from prevailing in a race shaped by treacherous conditions, repeated interruptions and no shortage of drama.

CFMoto V4 SR-RR rival expected to adopt movable winglets Love them or hate them, it’s clear that winglets are here to stay on modern performance bikes, and they’re becoming a new technological battleground as a growing number of brands realise that moving wings are more useful than fixed ones. So far only Bimota’s KB998 Rimini has employed movable wings in a production bike, and in a fairly limited way.

With MotoGP and WorldSBK both departing, the owners of the iconic circuit have moved to quell speculation over the track’s long term future Since the loss of the MotoGP and World Superbike events at Phillip Island, there have been plenty of speculative rumours and innuendo regarding the circuit’s future, the majority of it negative.

The Streetdog XR turns heads for its looks, but it’s the ride experience that leaves the bigger impression You may not have heard of FTN Motion. That’s fine – neither had I nor any of the people who kept stopping me to ask about it. The New Zealand-based electric motorcycle startup is quietly making inroads into the Australian market, hand-building its bikes in its Hamilton workshop and backed by a recent $2 million capital raise to fuel the push across the Tasman.

BMW World Endurance Team set the pace across a weather-hit two-day Suzuka 8-Hour test, narrowly topping Jack Miller’s Yamaha Racing Team after dry running gave way to rain on Wednesday Suzuka’s latest pre-race test unfolded in two very different chapters, with a full day of dry running on Tuesday followed by a wet and largely disrupted Wednesday. When the times were combined, BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team emerged on top.

Bob Barnard has spoken out against plans to shift the Australian Grand Prix to a new Adelaide street venue, warning the move could jeopardise both circuits and leave Phillip Island vulnerable to redevelopment Bob Barnard, one of Australia’s most respected circuit designers, has come out strongly against the planned relocation of MotoGP from Phillip Island to a new street circuit in Adelaide from 2027.

Laverton ’76 headlined big names and bigger promises, only to unravel in a collapse that stunned the sport here and overseas. Fifty years ago, the largest-ever influx of international motorcycle stars descended on Melbourne for what promised to be the race meeting that set Australia on the map: the 1976 Australian TT. It was touted as history in the making, but what transpired was not just history, but sheer horror for investors, a Federal Government investigation, and a near-riot in Italy.