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.
Yamaha has launched its 2016 factory team and hostilities between its riders are already fizzing I don’t usually do team launches. They are the exact opposite of racing: totally safe…
Why Ian Hutchinson beat Britain’s latest world champions to win Britain’s biggest biking gong Each year dozens of motorcyclists win world championships of every shape and form but very few…
Last year MotoGP suffered its saddest loss since the death of Marco Simoncelli in 2011. Talented racer and genius engineer Warren Willing passed away on September 5 following a long…
Our fourth and final Hall of Fame blog looks at Oxley’s own top-three all-time greats It is a foolish and impossible task, of course, but that’s no reason not to…
The third of our four Hall of Fame blogs examines the dazzling skills of the so-called natural riders: Freddie Spencer, Kevin Schwantz and Casey Stoner People often talk about naturally…
Who to blame for the poisonous end to the 2015 MotoGP season: (in alphabetical order!) Jorge Lorenzo, Marc Márquez or Valentino Rossi? Or how about none of them? How about…
I blame it on Kenny Roberts, but it would’ve happened anyway. When ‘King’ Kenny arrived in Europe in the late 1970s he upped the ante: he rode harder, trained harder…
Call me sick and twisted, but I’ve been enjoying my favourite document of the year: the MotoGP crash report. This isn’t because I like to spend the winter hibernating beneath…
Sheene, Dunlop, Duke… it would be difficult to find three more different motorcycle racers, let alone three more different human beings. We all know the iconic images of these three…
Michelin may surpass Bridgestone, but not for long because Dorna’s long-term plan is to reduce MotoGP corner speeds At Valencia last week Michelin more or less matched Bridgestone’s lap times,…
I’ve never done this before, but I think now the time is right. It’s time to come out: as a Valentino Rossi fan. Social media has been so poisoned by…
I wish Hunter S Thompson was still alive for many reasons. I particularly wish he had been at Sepang, because no other writer could have written better about MotoGP’s weirdest…