MotoGP
The 225mph MotoGP bike: how fast is too fast?
Johann Zarco’s jaw-dropping top speed during last weekend’s Qatar grand prix raised inevitable questions…
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
Pol’s Honda MotoGP debut: just one-tenth off the pace
The first race of the 73rd season of world championship racing reaped the second-closest top ten in seven decades of premier-class racing – a mere 9.288 seconds separating stellar rookie…
Motorcycle News
Was Mike Hailwood better than Valentino Rossi?
On the afternoon of September 17, 1961 Mike Hailwood rode a Honda RC162 to victory in the Swedish 250cc grand prix to clinch his first world title. Just three months…
MotoGP
Suzuki’s GSX-RR: don’t touch a thing!
Imagine you’re sat around a table with half a dozen Suzuki engineers in the factory’s race department, discussing what needs to be done to the GSX-RR MotoGP bike for 2021.…
MotoGP
Fausto Gresini 1961-2021
Fausto Gresini, who has lost his life to Covid-19, raced and worked in MotoGP at a time when the sport was safer than it has ever been. And yet the…
Motorcycle News
What does Brexit mean for British teams and riders?
This year British riders, teams and race staff go racing in Europe as non-EU members for the first time in decades, so will they face any challenges and, if so,…
MotoGP
Davide Brivio – the man who made Yamaha and Suzuki MotoGP kings
Davide Brivio was absolutely key to Suzuki’s 2020 MotoGP championship victory, so his departure to Renault’s Formula 1 team is a huge blow to the factory. The former Yamaha MotoGP…
MotoGP
Red Bull Rookies: ‘They’re all kids and they’re all changing’
When Joan Mir was crowned MotoGP champion last November he was the first Red Bull Rookie to conquer bike racing’s highest peak. And when the 2021 grand prix season gets…
MotoGP
I’ve smelt the future of MotoGP, and boy, it don’t half pong
First published in October 2007 Smell is the most evocative of all the senses, which is why I’m immediately dragged back to my schooldays – in a wibbly-wobbly movie memory…
MotoGP
MotoGP: The best of Mat Oxley from 2020
The highlights from a season like no other: some of the best of Mat Oxley's Motor Sport columns from 2020
MotoGP
Mat Oxley’s 2020 MotoGP Top Ten
Joan Mir won the 2020 MotoGP World Championship, but was he the strongest rider last season?
MotoGP
The real reason MotoGP 2020 was so close and unpredictable
There were two things that got MotoGP commentators and fans particularly excited last season: the unpredictability of the racing and the incredibly close lap times, with the fastest 15 riders…