The MotoGP season is about to get under way, with a record 21-race season kicking off at the undulating Portimão circuit in Portugal on Sunday, local time.
If you're new to MotoGP, it's essentially a group of jockey-sized riders engaged in a high-octane, thrill-a-second spectacle of death-defying riding at close quarters on monstrously large, high-spec machines with enough torque to rip your shoulders out of their sockets.