MotoGP
Jorge Martin: ‘I will kill for Aprilia’
MotoGP king Jorge Martin has always had a killer instinct – “I guess I have a really killer mentality,” he told me a few years ago – but he believes…
Mat Oxley
Columnist
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.
Latest articles from Mat
MotoGP
MotoGP’s nastiest of the nasty bikes
Eddie Lawson’s fourth and final MotoGP championship was a miracle – he won the title aboard arguably the nastiest MotoGP bike of all time. His engineer Erv Kanemoto reveals how they transformed the Honda’s NSR500 and why 1989 was a pivotal moment in MotoGP technical development
MotoGP
How Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha were forged by WW2
The Japanese manufacturers are having a horrible time in MotoGP, perhaps their toughest since they evolved from manufacturing weaponry for the Japanese military in World War Two
MotoGP
MotoGP reality check: Martin won the title because he rode better, not because Bagnaia crashed too much
It’s an accepted truth that Bagnaia lost the championship through his frequent falls, but deeper analysis of his and Martin’s results prove otherwise
MotoGP
How to win in MotoGP: ‘The whole game is to make the tyres work – all the other stuff doesn’t matter’
Many believe that Ducati dominates MotoGP thanks to gadgets like mass dampers, ride-height adjusters and downforce aero, but its biggest advantage may be its in-depth tyre analysis, assisted by MegaRide’s latest gizmo
MotoGP
Yamaha’s MotoGP plans: ‘With an inline-four you need to make aero compromises’
Part two of our chat with Yamaha’s ex-Ducati, ex-Ferrari F1 tech boss Max Bartolini, who tells why MotoGP’s current tyres and new rules made a V4 inevitable and why it’s so difficult to catch Ducati
MotoGP
Yamaha’s tech director reveals radical plans to win again in MotoGP
No one in MotoGP has more work to do right now than Yamaha, which is developing an all-new V4-powered motorcycle, while continuing development of its inline-four YZR-M1, because it’s not…
MotoGP
‘King’ Kenny: MotoGP’s original and best independent-team champion
“I never really considered myself a road racer, I just did road racing to get Grand National points in the States.” So says one of the greatest motorcycle road racers…
MotoGP
Márquez in stealth mode as new MotoGP era begins
Something remarkable happened during yesterday’s first pre-2025 MotoGP tests at Barcelona. It wasn’t Gresini Ducati’s Alex Márquez going top, nor was it his older brother Marc’s first outing on a…
MotoGP
Harley baggers in MotoGP? So wrong, it’s right!
Dorna and Harley announced a MotoGP collaboration on Monday, but collaboration for what? It’s not quite certain. So what’s going on?
MotoGP
MotoGP king Martin: From Turn 1 at Jarama to the chequered flag at Barcelona
How Martin mixed devastating speed with numerous second-place finishes to win a season-long tussle with reigning MotoGP champion Pecco Bagnaia
MotoGP
MotoGP title-fight, final round: it’s Superman versus Hulk!
Anything can happen in motorcycle racing and usually does, so nothing is for certain when Bagnaia and Martin line up at Barcelona this weekend. And how did they get here? Here’s your blow-by-blow account of the 2024 championship, during which they’ve swapped the points lead five times!
