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.
“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
The Austrian factory, now working with Red Bull F1 aerodynamicists, will use a modular KTM RC16 to optimise aero/engine/chassis design for 2023 MotoGP season
What a race! Alex Rins made Suzuki’s day on Sunday, while Marc Márquez looked back to his best and Pecco Bagnaia put one hand on the 2022 MotoGP crown, after all his title rivals had disasters
The most obvious thing about your riding technique is that you hang off more than everyone… Jorge Martin: Yes, more than the average! I realised this was possible the first…
Britain’s second most successful grand prix racer of all time has died, aged 83. Phil Read was one of the fastest, bravest motorcycle racers of all time, who never strayed far from controversy
Oh dear, I’m in trouble with the factory Ducati team’s PR people for writing things they don’t like, so I’ve been blacklisted. Boohoo!
The pendulum swung again at Buriram: no points for Fabio Quartararo, a week after Pecco Bagnaia crashed out at Motegi and two weeks after Quartararo was knocked out at Aragon. And just three MotoGP races to go…
MotoGP’s minimum tyre pressure rules will be enforced for the first time in 2023, which will have a huge effect on the racing. For a start, top engineers believe there will be less overtaking and more crashes
