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.
The Ducati MotoGP team is using trick new software created to improve tyre performance, so how important is this technology to the factory’s tile challenge? It looks like we may…
Sunday’s breath-taking Austrian GP heralds the first-ever Ducati versus Honda duel for a MotoGP crown Incredible but true: Honda and Ducati have never battled each other for a Grand Prix…
Marquez, Pedrosa and Vinales all pointed to the heavens on Sunday, acknowledging Spain’s 12 + 1 time world champion Ángel Nieto, who died last week following a quad-bike accident You could…
This year MotoGP is more unpredictable than ever, which is great for fans. Here’s why This may turn out to be the best season of Grand Prix racing ever. It…
Part two of Mat Oxley's 1989 Suzuka 8 Hours: race day
Mat Oxley's account of his foray into the biggest race on the endurance calendar: the Suzuka Eight Hours
You would think that gold and glory would be enough to get them fired up, but a little extra always helps… Journalists sit very low in the feeding chain in…
Suzuki is having a nightmare MotoGP season; who to blame: the riders, the factory or the team? I’ve already said it, but I’ll say it again, I like Andrea Iannone,…
The much-hyped Márquez/Viñales title fight is turning out to be the weirdest in GP history. Here’s why… Remember all that preseason hype? This was going to be the year of…
MotoGP is at Sachsenring for the Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland, and Mat Oxley will be taking your questions about all the big talking points. It's a circuit Marc Márquez likes,…
I have no words after watching an old man win in the riskiest of conditions, but that wouldn’t make much of a blog… In October 2011 a photographer and I…
Assen was despoiled some years ago, just like Catalunya more recently, but then the history of racing is a history of epic race tracks disappearing Being an old MotoGP journalist…