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.
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?
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
The best of MotoGP reporting in 2023 from Mat Oxley
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
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…
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
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
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’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
Pecco Bagnaia retained his crown in a chaotic Valencia finale that saw plenty of crashes and Di Giannantonio become the first rider to lose a podium due to MotoGP’s controversial tyre-pressure rules
Pecco Bagnaia – who goes to Valencia this week hoping to retain his MotoGP crown – may look smooth and controlled on his Ducati but he does some radical things to find his speed. He talks mad braking, what he expects from the 2024 Desmosedici and why today’s riders will have shorter careers
An epic 2023 championship duel was most likely decided on Sunday night when title contender Jorge Martin got a bad rear tyre. Plus: MotoGP should think about why riders are losing their tempers…
