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.
Whatever you are doing, drop it right now and plan your visit to the Italian Grand Prix because there may never be another MotoGP race like it. Ride your bike,…
That was prime Jorge Lorenzo: grab the holeshot, then lay down the law, so there's no gunfight at the end. Perhaps there would've been a shootout in the final laps…
Valentino Rossi has been through them all. He’s the ancient prize fighter who has taken out Max Biaggi, Sete Gibernau, Casey Stoner, Jorge Lorenzo and the rest. His premier-class duels…
There was quite an admission of guilt from the podium trio at Austin on Sunday. Not one of the top three – Marc Márquez, Andrea Dovizioso or Valentino Rossi –…
It was American author Mark Twain who said that fact is stranger than fiction. It must be, he said, because fiction is limited by the human imagination, whereas reality is…
Main photo: Daytona International Speedway As MotoGP's superstars rode out on Saturday night to tweak their black boxes and twiddle with their high-speed rebound adjusters, the world's greatest motorcycle race…
Many of you probably already know something about bike racing's greatest story of industrial espionage, when East German Ernst Degner defected through the Iron Curtain at the height of the…
Where should the British Grand Prix have its home? What we are looking for is a circuit that tests the mettle of the riders as much as the metal of…
This is your early season wake-up call. Yes, in case you didn't already know it, 2015 MotoGP testing began earlier today at Sepang. While I and many of you shivered…
Will there ever be a Lewis Hamilton of MotoGP, a black king of motorcycle racing? Of course there will be. Who does best at what often has much to do…
If any of Marc Márquez's MotoGP rivals were gloating while he suffered the slings and arrows of Andorra-gate, they should wipe their schadenfreude smiles off their faces. In case you aren't up…
After Marc Márquez's 13th win of the year at Valencia last month I tweeted that el fenómeno had broken Mick Doohan's 12-wins-in-a-year record. Not long after, Casey Stoner came right back, with…