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.
Downforce aerodynamics is increasingly important in MotoGP but more downforce means more drag, which is a problem for the less powerful inline-four machines used by Suzuki and Yamaha
First it was rear-end shapeshifters, now it’s front-end shapeshifters too. Should MotoGP ban these devices? And is it possible to ban the technology?
Sepang is done, with just three days of testing left and less than four weeks to the first race. So what are Aprilia, Ducati, Honda, KTM, Suzuki and Yamaha up to?
Suzuki’s challenge for 2022: build a motorcycle that’s fast enough for Mir and Rins to drive home the GSX-RR’s advantages, rather than just compensate for its disadvantages
KTM was the hero of the 2020 MotoGP season, then struggled in 2021. Team engineers tell us they need to improve qualifying speed and corner-exit performance to get back to the front in 2022
Aprilia’s technical director Romano Albesiano talks openly about the factory’s fight to get to the front of and the challenges of MotoGP engineering in general
If Ducati’s Desmosedici is favourite to win the 2022 MotoGP title, who or what might stop it? The last two MotoGP championships have been won by inline-fours – Suzuki’s GSX-RR…
For the first time ever Ducati goes into a new season as favourite to win the MotoGP riders' world championship, after winning the last two constructors' titles. It’s taken a…
Danilo Petrucci is leaving behind the world of MotoGP for a new Dakar adventure – can the grand prix race winner find success on the dunes too?
Incredible but true, Fabio Quartararo is the first MotoGP champion since Giacomo Agostini who didn’t work his way to the top by riding two-strokes. True, Quartararo rode two-stroke minibikes, but…
2021 was the year of a new MotoGP generation, as Valentino Rossi retired; Pecco Bagnaia and Joan Mir finished behind the 22-year-old champion Fabio Quartararo; and Ducati ended the season…
Danilo Petrucci retired from MotoGP at the end of last season, after a decade of fighting his way from the very bottom to the very top, winning the 2019 Italian…