Where the speed is: the 2026 top-speed table
Apex Desk
13 August 2026
The fastest anyone has been through a speed trap this season is 364.8 km/h — and the rider who did it is not in the top five of the championship.
Tech
Inside a flag-to-flag bike swap
Apex Desk
20 July 2026
When the rain arrives mid-race, the bike changes and the clock does not stop. Here is what the twenty seconds in the pit box actually contain.
Assen and the art of the fast chicane
Apex Desk
25 June 2026
Eighteen corners in 4.542 km, twelve of them right-handers, and a final sequence that has decided more races than the rest of the lap put together.
Balaton Park: seventeen corners in 4.075 kilometres
Apex Desk
5 June 2026
The newest circuit on the calendar packs more corners into each kilometre than anywhere else the championship visits.