About Us
Why this site exists
ALPESMOTORACING is an independent motorcycle and motorsport news site, written at the level of detail the paddock itself uses. When a rider loses a race to a tyre pressure penalty, we tell you the pressure rule, who monitors it and why the teams keep gambling on it. When a manufacturer launches a new bike, we publish the compression ratio and the wet weight, not just the press photo and the price. That kind of specificity is usually the first thing to disappear when racing gets compressed into a general sports page.
Our readers are the people who set an alarm for a flag-to-flag race in another time zone, the commuter deciding whether the new middleweight is worth trading up for, and the club racer who wants to know if this season’s rule change at world level will trickle down to their national series. They do not need us to explain what an apex is. They need to know whether the homologation figure is the same one the dealer will quote, and whether the result they watched on Sunday survived the stewards on Monday.
What we cover
The spine of the site is racing: MotoGP and its support classes, World Superbike, and the motocross and off-road disciplines that most outlets only remember in a season review. Around that we cover the industry the racing sits on top of: new bike launches, gear and equipment, recalls, patents that hint at what is coming, and the business decisions that decide which factories are on the grid in three years.
Our sections map to how riders actually read. NEWS is the daily wire. MOTOGP and RACING carry the series coverage, from grand prix weekends to WSBK and motocross. BIKES is launches and model news. GEAR and REVIEWS are the buying side, tested rather than transcribed. INDUSTRY follows the manufacturers and the money. GUIDES and SAFETY are the practical pages, from riding technique explainers to protective equipment standards. EVENTS keeps the calendar honest.
How we work
We are a small independent team of editors. We do not publish individual bylines as personalities; the site speaks with one editorial voice and one standard, and every story that carries the ALPESMOTORACING name has been through the same checks regardless of who typed it. What we lack in headcount we make up for in restraint: we would rather publish four stories that hold up than fourteen that need quiet rewrites by Tuesday.
Race coverage is checked against official timing and the stewards’ decision documents, not against what a broadcast graphic showed at the flag. A provisional result is labelled provisional. Technical specifications come from manufacturer homologation and press material, and when the European figure differs from the figure quoted in another market, we say which one we are using. The full method is in our fact-checking policy.
Reviews are the part of motorcycle publishing with the worst reputation, and we treat that reputation as a design constraint. Nobody pays to be reviewed on this site, and no manufacturer sees a verdict before you do. When a bike was ridden at a manufacturer-hosted press launch, with the fuel, tyres and route chosen by the people selling it, the review says so in plain words, because a launch impression and a thousand-kilometre test are different products. Our editorial standards page spells this out.
What we will not do
- We will not print a transfer rumour as a signing. Silly season is covered as what it is: claims, attributed to whoever made them, with our own read on how solid they look.
- We will not present a manufacturer’s claimed figures as tested figures. “Claimed” is a word we use a lot, on purpose.
- We will not let an advertiser, an importer or a PR office decide what gets covered or how a verdict reads. The commercial side of the site is described honestly on our ownership and funding page.
- We will not pretend riding is safe. It is a risk activity that can be managed, and our safety coverage treats readers as adults who deserve real numbers about helmets, airbags and training rather than reassurance.
Mistakes, and what happens to them
A site that covers provisional results, shifting launch dates and specification sheets in six markets is going to get things wrong. The measure of a newsroom is not a spotless record, it is what the record looks like after the error is found. We correct in the article, we mark the correction where readers can see it, and we do not silently rewrite. The procedure, including how penalties and revised race classifications are handled, is in our corrections policy. If you have caught us in an error, the fastest route is support@alpesmotoracing.com with CORRECTION in the subject line.
Where the money comes from
ALPESMOTORACING is funded by advertising and by affiliate commissions on some gear and product links, which cost you nothing and change our verdicts not at all. We accept no funding from manufacturers, teams, championships or betting companies, and no investor sits between the editors and the publish button. The details, including how press launches and loan bikes are handled so that hospitality does not turn into obligation, are on the ownership and funding page.
Talk to us
Everything reaches the editors through one address: support@alpesmotoracing.com. Tips from inside the paddock or the industry are read first and protected properly; see the contact page for how to reach us confidentially. If you are a reader who spotted a wrong spec, a dead link or a result we have not updated after a penalty, you are doing our quality control for us, and we mean the thank you.
alpesmotoracing.com exists because racing coverage kept getting thinner while the sport kept getting more technical. We are trying to be the site we could not find. Hold us to it.
