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“The least risky place to overtake, for riders and tyres, is in a straight line”

MotoGP testing gets underway at Sepang, Malaysia, on February 10, with Aprilia, Honda, KTM and Yamaha hoping to close the gap on Ducati. How will they do it? With great difficulty.

MotoGP is increasingly closely fought, with last year’s Australian Grand Prix featuring the tightest top 10 in history, with 5.9sec covering the first 10 riders past the chequered flag. That’s a lap-time difference between the winner and 10th-place finisher of two-tenths of a second.

MotoGP is super-close because the rules were written that way but now all the motorcycles

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