MotoGP Trivia
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48 free MotoGP trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Grand Prix motorcycle racing has been crowning world champions since 1949, and its stories are as good as any in sport: a man who won titles on two wheels and then four, a champion who braked with his thumb, a rider who counted thirteen titles as twelve plus one, and two siblings who finished first and second in the same season. These 48 questions cover the champions of every era, the switch from 500cc two-strokes to four-stroke MotoGP machines, the Moto2 and Moto3 feeder classes, the circuits from the Dutch cathedral to the Tuscan hills, the factories that built the bikes, the tyre and sprint rules, and the records that fell in the 2025 season. Most are pitched for a pub table or a race-weekend group chat, with a handful for people who know their chassis builders. Play on your phone with instant answers and explanations, or print it for a paddock quiz night.
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Q 01Who remains the only person to have won world championships on both two wheels and four?
John Surtees
John Surtees won seven motorcycle world titles, switched to cars in 1960 and took the Formula One crown with Ferrari just four years later, in 1964.
Q 02What distinction did the top two in the 2025 riders' standings share, a first for the premier class?
They were brothers
They were brothers, and the pair had set the tone early by finishing first and second in each of the season's first ten sprint races.
Q 03Which American group bought the championship's Madrid-based promoter, Dorna Sports, in 2025?
Liberty Media
Liberty Media already owned Formula One, so the deal closed only once the European Commission had cleared it in June 2025; Dorna has since been renamed MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group.
Q 04Which number was retired at the 2022 Italian Grand Prix to honour the rider who had used it for his entire career?
46
46 was Valentino Rossi's number because his father Graziano had raced with it, and he kept it even as world champion rather than switch to the number 1.
Q 05Which rookie won the 2013 premier-class title aged 20, the youngest champion in the class's history?
Marc Márquez
Marc Márquez could go straight into a factory team only because the rule keeping rookies out of them was relaxed for 2013, and no debutant had won the title since 1978.
Q 06Which Australian, who braked with a left-thumb lever, won five straight 500cc titles from 1994?
Mick Doohan
Mick Doohan switched to a left thumb-operated rear brake after a 1992 crash left his right foot unable to work the pedal, and he then dominated the class until 1998.
Q 07Which circuit has held a Grand Prix motorcycle race every year since 1949 except 2020?
Assen
Assen, 'the Cathedral of Speed', hosts the Dutch TT, the oldest event on the calendar, and its only gap came in 2020, when the pandemic cancelled the race.
Q 08Which manufacturer's run of 22 straight Grand Prix wins was ended at the 2025 French round?
Ducati
Ducati's 22 wins in a row only equalled a record first set in 1997–98, and the streak was broken by a home rider in the wet.
Q 09Which company returned as the premier class's sole tyre supplier in 2016 after Bridgestone withdrew?
Michelin
Michelin had been losing its top riders to Bridgestone, Valentino Rossi switching for 2008 and winning the title, before the class moved to a single Bridgestone supply in 2009.
Q 10Which Spanish rider, a triskaidekaphobe, insisted his 13 world titles be counted as '12+1'?
Ángel Nieto
Ángel Nieto won 90 Grands Prix, all in the small-capacity classes, and after his death in 2017 the Jerez circuit that hosts the Spanish round was renamed in his honour.
Q 11Which Yamaha rider became the first French premier-class world champion, in 2021?
Fabio Quartararo
Fabio Quartararo, nicknamed 'El Diablo', sealed the crown with two rounds to spare when his closest rival crashed out of the lead at Misano with five laps left.
Q 12Which Suzuki factory rider won back-to-back 500cc world titles in 1976 and 1977?
Barry Sheene
Barry Sheene raced in a Donald Duck helmet and kept his own number 7 even as world champion, rather than take the number 1 plate a champion can claim.
Q 13Which former dirt-track racer became the first American to win a Grand Prix world title, in 1978?
Kenny Roberts
Q 21Who won the 2024 title with a satellite team, the first independent-team champion of the MotoGP era?
Jorge Martín
Jorge Martín won with Prima Pramac Racing after being passed over for a factory seat, and by then had already signed to race for a rival manufacturer in 2025.
Q 22Who took the 2020 world title with a single race win and seven podiums all season?
Joan Mir
Joan Mir's only victory came at the European Grand Prix, in a season thrown open when the reigning champion broke his arm at the opening round; it was Suzuki's first title since 2000.
Q 23Who won the first title of MotoGP's 800cc era, in 2007?
Casey Stoner
Kenny Roberts was sent to Europe by Yamaha's US importer once it could not build a dirt-track bike to beat Harley-Davidson, and his sliding style changed how Grand Prix bikes were ridden.
Q 14Which circuit, owned by Ferrari since 1988, hosts the Italian motorcycle Grand Prix?
Mugello
Mugello, in Tuscany, has staged one Formula One race, in 2020, when a calendar rewritten by the pandemic let Ferrari mark its 1,000th Grand Prix at its own track.
Q 15Which circuit won the Australian Grand Prix back from Eastern Creek in 1997 and kept it until 2026?
Phillip Island
Phillip Island staged the first Australian round in 1989, lost the race to Sydney in 1991 and won it back in 1997, only for a street circuit in Adelaide to take it from 2027.
Q 16Which rider won premier-class titles in 2010, 2012 and 2015 after two 250cc crowns?
Jorge Lorenzo
Jorge Lorenzo took the 2015 crown by five points at the final round, where teammate and title rival Valentino Rossi had to start from the back of the grid as a penalty.
Q 17Which American won the 2006 premier-class world championship, ending Valentino Rossi's run of five straight titles?
Nicky Hayden
Nicky Hayden, 'the Kentucky Kid', was knocked off by his own teammate at the penultimate round, yet took the crown when Rossi crashed in the Valencia finale.
Q 18Which desert circuit staged the first night race in the championship's history, in March 2008?
Lusail
Lusail, in Qatar, was floodlit for night racing, but riding in the wet under the lights was then ruled out, and a desert rainstorm pushed the 2009 race back a day.
Q 19Which rider won four consecutive 250cc world titles from 1994 to 1997?
Max Biaggi
Max Biaggi never won the premier-class crown despite three runner-up finishes, but he switched to World Superbikes and took two titles there, the second in 2012 by half a point.
Q 20Who came back from 91 points down at mid-season to win the 2022 premier-class title?
Francesco Bagnaia
Francesco Bagnaia trailed by 91 points with ten of the twenty races gone, then won the next four in a row and sealed the title at the Valencia finale.
Casey Stoner took the crown in the first season of 800cc engines, a limit that lasted only the five seasons it had been guaranteed before 1,000cc engines arrived in 2012.
Q 24Which British manufacturer has supplied Moto2's 765cc three-cylinder racing engines since 2019?
Triumph
Triumph's triples are based on the Street Triple RS, replacing the 600cc in-line fours the class had used since it began in 2010.
Q 25Which penalty arrived in 2019 for riders who exceed track limits or ride moderately recklessly?
Long lap
Long lap penalties were added as a lighter sanction for small offences: the rider loses time on a longer marked line around one corner instead of being sent through the pits.
Q 26Which Spaniard retired in 2018 with 31 premier-class wins and three runner-up finishes but no title?
Dani Pedrosa
Dani Pedrosa, runner-up in 2007, 2010 and 2012, became a test rider, and the bike redesigned around his feedback gave its maker a first premier-class win in 2020.
Q 27Who became the youngest world champion in the sport's history by winning the 1990 125cc title at 17?
Loris Capirossi
Loris Capirossi was 17 years and 165 days old, and later sealed the 1998 250cc title by colliding with his own teammate at the last corner of the final race, after which the team let him go.
Q 28Who is the only rider to have won the 250cc and 500cc world titles in a single year, in 1985?
Freddie Spencer
Freddie Spencer never won another Grand Prix after that double season: wrist injuries cut his career short, and some blame the strain of racing two classes at once.
Q 29Which American won three straight 500cc titles from 1990 for a team run by a fellow ex-champion?
Wayne Rainey
Wayne Rainey was leading the 1993 championship when a crash left him paralysed from the chest down, yet in 2022 he rode his title-winning Yamaha again at Goodwood, using hand controls.
Q 30Which American's racing number was retired by the FIM after his 1993 world championship?
Kevin Schwantz
Kevin Schwantz wore 34 because his uncle Darryl Hurst, 'the original 34', had used it, and the FIM retired the number after he walked away from racing early in the 1995 season.