MotoGP
‘Factories shouldn’t have the possibility to lock young riders for five years’
Red Bull KTM’s hugely successful rider programme has got other factories worried – is that a problem or not?
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
Goodbye Cal Crutchlow. Again. Possibly
Cal ‘I didn’t want to race!’ Crutchlow was back for his fourth race of 2021, so might he be tempted to return full time?
MotoGP
Finally Bagnaia gets it done, with straight-line speed and corner speed
Pecco Bagnaia has been Ducati’s secret weapon for the last couple of MotoGP seasons – has he finally found the way to win and keep winning?
MotoGP
Will F1 tyre-cooling wheel rims soon feature on MotoGP bikes?
Tyre temperature and pressure are everything in motor sport – and not only in MotoGP. In Formula 1, or any other category where the stakes are high and the lap…
MotoGP
A tale of two 170mph crashes – 46 years apart
Marc Márquez walked away from his 170mph tumble at Silverstone, while Barry Sheene spent weeks in hospital after his 170mph accident at Daytona in 1975. The big difference? Huge advances in riding kit
MotoGP
British MotoGP: after ten years of trying Italian underdog Aprilia scores its first MotoGP podium
Aleix Espargaró’s brilliant Silverstone third place was the result of years and years of blood, sweat and toil
MotoGP
British MotoGP: Quartararo surfs towards the title while his main rivals drown in a sea of tyre troubles
Quartararo’s fifth victory was a thing of beauty, but his two biggest title rivals were nobbled by dud tyres yesterday
MotoGP
‘We build our MotoGP engine so the electronics have to do as little work as possible’
KTM entered MotoGP four years ago and is already battling with rival manufacturers who have been racing in the premier class for decades. Only Yamaha has won more races since…
MotoGP
MotoGP’s future: would MotoEco be better than MotoE?
MotoGP could introduce carbon-neutral eco fuels as early as 2024 – so could this be a better way forward than electric racing?
MotoGP
Maverick Viñales’s MotoGP meltdown – was it really so bad?
Modern sport is a professional business but in fact the whole point of sport is to give people a break from their professional worlds: the workplace, the office, the factory.…
MotoGP
Brad Binder: ‘This wasn’t racing – this was surviving’
Brad Binder rolled the dice when the rain came down at the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix to win his second MotoGP race, but it could so easily have been very different
MotoGP
Happy 50th MotoGP birthday to Ducati and two-stroke 500s!
MotoGP has two big 50th anniversaries coming up: the first two-stroke 500cc GP win and Ducati’s MotoGP debut