As a racer, Mat is an Isle of Man TT winner and lap record holder. As a scribbler, he’s been at it since the late 1980s and has written acclaimed biographies of Valentino Rossi and Mick Doohan – plus he’s an award-winning commentator too.
Honda had a horrible 2022 MotoGP season, so we asked Marc Márquez and Stefan Bradl to tell us what went wrong with the RC213V, while HRC’s MotoGP technical manager Takeo Yokoyama reveals his plans to fix the bike for 2023
Honda has just completed its worst grand prix season since it raced the fabulous but flawed NR500 four-stroke in 1981. The company didn’t score a single MotoGP victory during 2022,…
Last season many fans agreed that the racing at the front of World Superbikes was better than MotoGP, which is why some MotoGP riders and engineers are worried by recent developments – so what’s to be done?
Brad Binder talks riding technique – why MotoGP riders use less electronics, not more, how he locks the front tyre without crashing, why the leg dangle helps him tip into corners, why setting up a bike with downforce aero is so different and much more…
A few months ago I was talking to Aleix Espargaró about Aprilia’s long and winding road to the summit of MotoGP, from the 500cc two-stroke twin of the 1990s to…
Enea Bastianini tells us how he gets the best out of a MotoGP bike and how he’s looking forward to fighting with new team-mate and reigning champion Pecco Bagnaia
MotoGP is so tight now that technical revolutions don’t work anymore, it’s all tiny evolutions, which is what we saw during yesterday’s one-day post-season test at Valencia
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” wrote someone a while back. They were correct but history was inextricably linked with the remarkable events that unfolded…
MotoGP’s new safety officer and likely new permanent steward are the nephew and his partner of the Dorna CEO, whose children already play leading roles in the championship. There’s a simple word for running a business like this…
Casey Stoner’s former crew chief Cristian Gabarrini is on the verge of winning his second MotoGP crown with Ducati, at the same time as the factory loses two of its top crew chiefs to KTM
Today’s MotoGP riders can’t put together consistent championship campaigns like they used to. Why? Because if every single star in a rider’s firmament isn’t perfectly aligned on race day, he’s in hell
There is surely nothing better than having eight fast motorcycles and eight fast riders on the MotoGP grid. But it’s not always that simple, as Ducati management found out at Sepang
