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.
I didn’t attend last weekend’s Dutch TT at Assen. Instead I took a busman’s holiday a few hours south at Spa-Francorchamps. It was the weekend of the Bikers’ Classic, the…
Casey Stoner’s retirement bombshell overshadowed everything at Le Mans, but it wasn’t the only talking point. The other story that grabbed people’s attention was the Tech 3 brakes saga which…
Next Sunday, March 17, marks the 71st running of the Daytona 200, once the traditional curtain raiser for the international bike racing season. Nowadays the event is a shadow of…
Great to see the two grandest men of bike racing inducted into the Motor Sport Hall of Fame this week, taking their place alongside Fangio, Senna and the rest. John…
About this time of year in 2007 I watched Casey Stoner and his wife Adriana walk out of the back of the pits at Sepang, get into their hire car…
Unless you’re at the sharp end of racing – frantically fettling in readiness of the new season – this can be a grey time of year. Which is why we…
The end of the year is of course a time for reflection, so here follows some of my standout moments of the MotoGP season just passed: Rider of the year…
Electric power has had a faltering start in bike racing, as though there’s a dodgy connection somewhere in the wiring. The Isle of Man’s inaugural TT Zero event attracted 13…