MotoGP
Twenty years ago today: Rossi fixes Yamaha’s M1
People expected it to take a year – in fact Valentino Rossi fixed most of the Yamaha YZR-M1’s problems in his first hours on the bike on January 24, 2004
Mat Oxley
Columnist
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.
Latest articles from Mat
MotoGP
Anthony Gobert: 1975-2024
'The Go Show' was more talented than Schwantz and Spencer and a “genuinely nice kid” but he was unable to defeat his addictions
MotoGP
Triumph rewarded for its Moto2 project but no plans for MotoGP
By the end of this season Triumph’s Moto2 engines will have covered close to a million miles, with the 2024 765 engine using 40% ‘sustainable’ fuel, which could be the start of an alternative to EV power
MotoGP
MotoGP riding technique: ‘I use the kerbs for traction control!’
Pol Espargaró has raced in MotoGP for ten years, always using his spectacular, maximum-risk riding style, so why does he ride like that, how does he use kerbs for traction control and how has downforce aero changed everything for riders?
MotoGP
An open letter to Dorna: it’s time to promote diversity and inclusivity in MotoGP
Recent events have highlighted the fact that MotoGP needs to follow other sporting championships and take a stand for inclusion and against homophobia and other hate crimes
MotoGP
MotoGP: The best of Mat Oxley from 2023
The best of MotoGP reporting in 2023 from Mat Oxley
MotoGP
After 75 years, Dunlop has won its last grand prix
Dunlop is the only hardware company that has been in GPs since the beginning but now it’s gone, so this is a good time to look back at its greatest season, when Wayne Rainey and Kevin Schwantz duelled for the 1991 500cc world championship
MotoGP
Can MotoGP’s last inline-four motorcycle survive?
Yamaha inline-four YZR-M1 seems to be fighting a losing battle against the V4 hordes of Aprilia, Ducati, Honda and KTM. The M1 didn’t win a single race last season, so can it fight back in 2024? Fabio Quartararo’s crew chief Diego Gubellini has a plan…
MotoGP
Pecco Bagnaia won the 75th MotoGP crown – meet the WW2 bomber pilot who won the first
This is the extraordinary story of Les Graham, the decorated RAF Lancaster pilot who won the inaugural MotoGP world title, was ‘the greatest of all MV Agusta riders’ and lost his life on one of MV’s first MotoGP bikes
MotoGP
‘The physical limit of the bike is one thing; the mental limit of a rider is another'
Why is Ducati’s Desmosedici so good? How will it be better in 2024? How important are computer simulations in MotoGP? Ducati’s three-times title-winning crew chief tells (nearly) all
Motorcycle News
Remembering Cecil Sandford, MV Agusta’s history man
Cecil Sandford, the last surviving champion from the first decade of motorcycling’s world championships, passed away on Tuesday, at the age of 95. Sandford was the first rider to win a world title with MV Agusta, which went on to become the biggest racing name through much of the 1960s and 1970s.
MotoGP
Márquez’s instant Ducati speed surprises no one in MotoGP
MotoGP’s most-awaited bike change in years was the story of Tuesday’s one-day Valencia tests, but conditions weren’t good enough to read too much into the overall results
