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.
MotoGP’s first pre-season tests at Sepang had every factory using ground-effect aerodynamics for the first time. But Ducati’s aero is still the best – good enough to put Luca Marini on top aboard a GP22
Tom O’Kane has been working in MotoGP since the late 1980s, when he joined the paddock’s most go-ahead team – Marlboro Team Roberts Yamaha – to introduce the first serious…
Next week’s opening pre-season tests at Sepang will be the first time MotoGP uses its spec tyre pressure sensors in preparation for the introduction of new minimum-pressure rules. So how will these new regulations affect the riders, the manufacturers and the spectacle?
There are all the usual reasons we talk about when discussing Ducati’s MotoGP success, but underpinning it all is something that no one really talks about: computer modelling, virtual reality and artificial intelligence…
Aprilia goes into the 2023 MotoGP world championship as a genuine title challenger. Technical director Romano Albesiano guides us through the latest RS-GP developments, from engine to aero
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
