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.
Galileo studied the movement of planets at Padua University. 300 years later, it taught Ducati MotoGP chief engineer Gigi Dall'Igna a more terrestrial form of motion. Why is northern Italy — once home to Renaissance revolutionaries — now such a powerhouse of automotive knowledge?
It’s the oldest story in MotoGP: BMW is coming! MotoGP has been wooing the German manufacturer for at least two decades, because having a premium global brand like Bayerische Motoren…
Pedro Acosta lit up MotoGP once again on Sunday in the 2024 US GP, narrowly missing victory, which went to Viñales and Aprilia. Meanwhile Ducati once again struggled with the dreaded chatter
Ducati has a serious chatter problem and MotoGP championship leader Jorge Martin can’t understand why other manufacturers aren’t struggling with the same phenomenon. Plus, what does chatter do and what causes it?
Liberty’s takeover of Dorna offers big opportunities for MotoGP – most important is to change the governance of the technical rules and a TV series that replicates the huge success of F1’s Drive to Survive
MotoGP factories keep the secrets of their motorcycles closely hidden, but the first semi-naked photo of Ducati’s latest Desmosedici reveals a fascinating chassis detail that helps the bike’s cornering performance
Jorge Martin may have dominated the Portuguese GP but the way Pedro ‘Jaws’ Acosta tore through the pack aboard his KTM suggested that Ducati’s MotoGP superiority may not last forever
MotoGP’s new 850cc engine rules are expected to be announced at next month’s Spanish GP but there’s another way of slowing race bikes and the British Superbike series is already doing it
Two decades after Qatar’s first MotoGP round the story of the Losail circuit can finally be told – it all started with a gang of local road riders who wanted to get their knees down
Comparisons with Valentino Rossi may be a little premature but stellar MotoGP rookie Pedro Acosta is already entertaining us on and off track, just like the nine-time world champion used to
Former Honda Britain race boss Barry Symmons, who died earlier this week, masterminded one of the all-time greatest victories in the history of motorcycle racing: Steve Hislop’s historic 1992 Senior TT win for Norton. A few years ago Symmons and other the main men involved revealed the story behind their fairytale success
A winter of a thousand questions, many of which will finally be answered in Qatar this weekend, including which rider will make the most of Michelin’s all-new compounds?
