When Joan Mir was crowned MotoGP champion last November he was the first Red Bull Rookie to conquer bike racing’s highest peak. And when the 2021 grand prix season gets…
First published in October 2007 Smell is the most evocative of all the senses, which is why I’m immediately dragged back to my schooldays – in a wibbly-wobbly movie memory…
Twenty-five years ago Valentino Rossi had recently completed his first season of international racing. Between May and October of 1995, the 16-year-old had contested the European 125cc championship, not only…
The highlights from a season like no other: some of the best of Mat Oxley's Motor Sport columns from 2020
Joan Mir won the 2020 MotoGP World Championship, but was he the strongest rider last season?
There were two things that got MotoGP commentators and fans particularly excited last season: the unpredictability of the racing and the incredibly close lap times, with the fastest 15 riders…
A motorcycle cartwheels down the track and into the dirt. Medics arrive on the scene. They lay the injured rider on a stretcher and load him into an ambulance. Sirens…
Marc Márquez has undergone a third operation on his fractured arm and now faces a battle to be fit for the start of next year's MotoGP season. It typically takes…
Only two riders in MotoGP history have won championships by winning every race for a 100 per cent points score. This year’s champion Joan Mir scored less than 50 per cent of the available points…
The Isle of Man Government has confirmed the cancellation of the 2021 Isle of Man TT races due to uncertainty surrounding the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. It will be the second…
In 1976, Pete Davies won the Avon Roadrunner race series riding a bike that was virtually street-legal. The machine in question was the original Laverda Jota, a model developed by…
Valentino Rossi probably doesn’t want to know this – although he probably already knows it in his gut – but 2020 was his worst season since he joined the grand…
Northern Ireland is the UK’s home of real roadracing – that’s racing between the hedges. The country’s fascination with this ancient art goes all the way back to the British…
Ducati is asking the MotoGP tyre supplier to introduce its new front slick a year early. Plus Ducati’s excitement about its Moto2 arrivals: Bastianini, Marini and Martin
There’s never been a season like it – Covid-19 made sure of that – but MotoGP 2020 will also be remembered for other reasons
Mir and Alonso Take the two debut championship winners, for example. Two young Spaniards who rose above the rest with relentless consistency. Alonso's immense 2005 form meant he finished on…
