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🚨 2015 revisited: Qatar - The start of the future? (Round 1)

We begin our return to the 2015 MotoGP season with a surprise-packed season-opening Qatar Grand Prix.

This was the start of Ducati’s progress from embarrassment to domination, but not quite the start to Marc Marquez's latest title defence that anyone expected.

Throw in a resurgent Valentino Rossi and strange problems for Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa and there is immediately plen...

Five things we learned about Ducati's new Marquez MotoGP era

An ad-free version of our video from the Ducati launch - featuring words from Marc Marquez, Pecco Bagnaia and Davide Tardozzi and a behind-the-scenes look about how Ducati's two 'alpha dogs' are getting on during the big event.

Ducati launch: Inside Marquez and Bagnaia's debut as team-mates

Simon Patterson reports from a pause in the four days of festivities, multiple unveilings and ski races that kicks off Ducati’s 2025 MotoGP season to join Val Khorounzhiy and Matt Beer on The Race MotoGP Podcast.

They discuss how Marc Marquez, Pecco Bagnaia and Ducati bosses tackled the potential pitfalls of the new superteam all-champion line-up.

With all the talk at the launch e...

BBV10s Debrief - Spa 1995

Glenn Freeman tackles your comments and questions from our Bring Back V10s episode on the 1995 Belgian Grand Prix, for you to watch as a video or listen to as a podcast!

Thanks to everyone who has got involved with this new series. Keep an eye out for posts where we ask you to get involved with future episodes, as these shows become exclusive to Patreon from episode three onwards!

Hamilton's first days at Ferrari - all you need to know

As Lewis Hamilton gets to work at Ferrari, our latest ad-free video takes you through everything his first week at Maranello and first Ferrari F1 test will involve - and what he can't do yet.

Assessing F1’s bumper 2025 rookie crop (ad-free)

Edd Straw is joined by Samarth Kanal and Scott Mitchell-Malm to discuss F1's rookie class of 2025.

Can Mercedes new boy Kimi Antonelli live up to the sky-high expectations? And why is there so much excitement about a driver who only finished sixth in Formula 2 last year?

Ollie Bearman has impressed in a handful of F1 races already, but how will he get on now he's with Haas full time...

Get your questions in for MotoGP star Jack Miller!

Pramac Yamaha's new MotoGP signing Jack Miller will join Simon Patterson for an exclusive interview on The Race MotoGP Podcast later this month - and we'll put YOUR questions to him!

Leave your question for Jack on any aspect of his MotoGP career so far and his 2025 season prospects in the comments on this post before January 27 and we'll ask Jack as many as we can d...

Early access: Gary Anderson on Cadillac vs Audi in 2026

Here's an early look at Gary Anderson's next column for The Race, which will run on the main site next week. It's his take on which of Audi and Cadillac he'd want to be part of as the two manufacturer newcomers prepare to join the Formula 1 grid in 2026 via very different routes.

Not to wish time away - because 2025, with new drivers coming in, could be a great y...

What Aprilia must prove to its champion MotoGP signing

Here's an ad-free version of our new video on how Aprilia is changing for Jorge Martin and what it needs to do to prove he picked the right team when he left Ducati, ahead of its release on The Race Moto YouTube channel later this evening.

Hear Martin and Aprilia boss Massimo Rivola's take on the team's prospects this season as well as Simon's report on the very different vibe at Aprilia'...

🏎 F1 Extra: Who will win the midfield battle in 2025?

Edd Straw is joined by Ben Anderson for another round of answering questions from The Race Members’ Club. 

We kick off this episode with a question about F1’s midfield battle before tackling a wide array of subjects, including VSC rules, halo location, car weight and more. 

Ben is also posed a fascinating hypothetical about how he thinks the last few seasons would have...

Ad-free MotoGP pod: Martin's bullish debut in Aprilia colours

The Race MotoGP Podcast's coverage of the 2025 launch season begins with a two-for-one special, covering the presentations of Aprilia and its satellite team Trackhouse.

Val Khorounzhiy is joined by Simon Patterson on-site at Aprilia's event to discuss champion Jorge Martin's first public appearance as a fully-fledged Aprilia rider - which featured the confirmation that he will run the cha...

F1 2025’s 8 biggest questions

Jon and Ben tackle the eight most awkward questions we think are facing F1's teams and drivers heading into 2025. Watch the ad-free version of our latest video before it appears on our YouTube channel.

MotoGP's future star may disappoint you in 2025

Here's the first early release of an ad-free MotoGP video for The Race Members' Club on Patreon!

From now on all the videos on The Race Moto YouTube channel will also be available via Patreon ad-free, and wherever possible we'll give you early access to them as well.

To kick off, here are Val and Simon explaining why the MotoGP paddock is so certain David Alonso is the next Pedro Ac...

Early access article: Mark Hughes on Aston's potentially devastating F1 superteam

Below you'll find Mark Hughes's take on Aston Martin's emerging F1 superteam and why he thinks it could be F1's next superpower. Have an exclusive first read before it's public for everyone in a few days...

In all of Formula 1 history there’s never been anything ...

BBV10s S11 E4: High drama at Adelaide '86 (early access)

Bring Back V10s ventures into F1’s fearsome 1980s turbo era for the first time, looking back on the incredible 1986 Australian Grand Prix that decided that year’s title.

Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw and Andrew van de Burgt to reflect on how Alain Prost snatched his second championship from the dominant Williams cars, on the day Nigel Mansell suffered a heart-breaking and...

VIDEO: The full story of F1's ridiculous 2025 driver market

Our latest F1 video, available ad-free to The Race Members' Club here on Patreon, takes you through the most ridiculous (and early-starting) driver market that even F1's most experienced driver managers and team bosses could remember.

An absurdly long-running saga to set the 2025 grid finally came to an end in December, 323 days after it started, when Red Bull confirmed its plans for the ...

MotoGP 2015 launch date, videos, testing bonuses and more

MotoGP 2025 is about to begin but so is MotoGP 2015 Revisited in The Race Members' Club on Patreon. And we're also bringing ad-free early access MotoGP video to Patreon and setting Simon off on a few pre-season missions...

MOTOGP 2015 REVISITED FIRST EPISODES
Here are the release dates for the first two episode of our series of 'mini-pods' in which Simon, Val, Megan an...

Reviewing Rowland's Mexico City E-Prix smash 'n' grab

Nissan boss Tommaso Volpe joins host Andrew van de Burgt and chief reporter Sam Smith to analyse Oliver Rowland’s superb smash ‘n’ grab victory at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City E-Prix.

Questions such as would Rowland have caught the Porsches without the intervention of the first safety car and will Nissan mount a serious challenge to Pascal Wehrlein and Antonio Fel...

Send us your thoughts on Spa 1995 - BBV10s Debrief

Following the launch of our Bring Back V10s Debrief series where we looked back on Jenson Button's 2000 season with YOUR input, let's do it again!

Thanks to everyone who got involved with episode one. Now we can move onto the second show from Season 11, so send us your thoughts, comments and questions about everything we talked about in the 1995 Belgian GP episode, and BBV10s host Glenn ...

The 185-race F1 career that peaked at race one

Watch ad-free! Kevin Magnussen thought Formula 1 was going to be the proverbial piece of cake when he finished second on his grand prix debut.

He came into F1 as a highly-rated rookie after winning the hugely-competitive Formula Renault 3.5 championship in 2013, landing a top-team drive.

As he put it in our interview with him at the end of the 2024 season, “you come in with McLare...

When’s Hamilton’s first day at Ferrari? Your questions answered! (ad-free)

We answer your questions on a variety of topics, including what will be different for Lewis Hamilton in life at Ferrari and when the seven-time world champion have his first day at Maranello. 

Jon Noble and Mark Hughes join Edd Straw to answer questions sent in by The Race Members' Club, including one on Spa's new deal to become a rotation race, and another on how we go about followi...

BBV10s Debrief: Discussing your thoughts on Jenson Button's 2000!

Here is the first Bring Back V10s Debrief! Glenn Freeman sits down to go through your comments, questions and observations following our Season 11 opener on Jenson Button's 2000 season.

Thank you to everyone who got involved with the beginning of this new feature, which will be a Patreon-exclusive from now on. And please let us know what you think of it.

Look out for upcoming posts...

🏎 F1 Extra Q&A: Are Verstappen's accomplishments properly appreciated?

On the latest episode of F1 Extra, Edd Straw is joined by our new recruit, Jon Noble, for the first of several podcasts in which we'll answer questions sent in by you.

There are posers on Andreas Seidl, Liam Lawson, and improving the fan experience at grands prix, plus Edd and Jon tackle the question of whether Red Bull will be able to test its new-for-2026 engine in an old car.

The...