MotoGP
Márquez: ‘The championship changes in a millisecond’
Marc Márquez seemed to have hoodwinked them all before Sunday’s COTA Grand Prix got underway, then he threw it all away and Pecco Bagnaia swept to his first win of 2025
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
Luca Marini: 'A complete rider? Never, not even on your last day on a MotoGP bike'
Luca Marini scored his first MotoGP podium at COTA two years ago, aboard a VR46 Ducati. This week he’s back there in a different situation, working to get Honda back to the front of the pack. So how does the Italian ride a MotoGP bike and help Honda redevelop its RC213V?
MotoGP
Agostini’s and Rossi’s MotoGP records are now within Márquez’s grasp
Marc Márquez is on his way to surpassing Valentino Rossi and Giacomo Agostini to become the most successful MotoGP rider of all time. But could this new target ruin his focus on what really matters: winning world championships?
MotoGP
The Márquez brothers: rinse them and repeat
Marc and Alex Márquez were once again in a class of their own at the MotoGP Argentine GP, where Pecco Bagnaia’s struggles have him contemplating a return to his 2024 Ducatis. Meanwhile the real heroes of the weekend were Honda and Johann Zarco
MotoGP
Pirelli in MotoGP: ‘Every time the tyre manufacturer changes, the bikes change so much’
Last week MotoGP dropped a bombshell: from 2027 the championship will switch from Michelin tyres to Pirelli, coinciding with a reduction in engine capacity from 1000cc to 850cc, reduced downforce…
MotoGP
Testing is ‘dreaming’, racing is ‘reality’ — are Honda and Yamaha really catching up?
MotoGP’s struggling Japanese manufacturers looked like they’d taken a step forward during pre-season testing, so what did the reality of the season-opening Thai GP reveal?
MotoGP
Márquez’s ominous domination of MotoGP season opener
Marc Márquez was playing with his rivals at Buriram, said team-mate Pecco Bagnaia. Now the eight-time champ has the best bike, could this be his greatest season yet?
MotoGP
Martin out of Thai GP – but Roberts’ 1979 title may give some hope
Injured MotoGP champion Jorge Martin will miss this week’s season-opening Thai GP. ‘King’ Kenny Roberts was the last champ to miss the start of his title defence, and yet the American went on to retain his title
MotoGP
The corporate mega deals reshaping MotoGP and other racing series
It is perhaps a sign of the times that three of motorcycle racing's biggest headlines of 2025 will be written not by riders, engineers and team managers but by businesspeople,…
MotoGP
Ducati goes backward to go forward – Márquez and Bagnaia to race GP24.9s in 2025
Pre-season testing is over, next comes the racing: and the reds look like continuing their MotoGP domination, with a mostly year-old motorcycle
MotoGP
MotoGP 2025 Day 1: world champ Jorge Martin injured
The 2025 MotoGP season got underway today with the first test in Sepang, with more than a quarter of the grid crashing and three riders breaking bones. Meanwhile the race to catch Ducati continues…
MotoGP
Why MotoGP’s Japanese brands are so far behind and what Honda needs to do to catch up
It’s a decade since Ducati transformed MotoGP by unleashing its first multi-wing Desmosedici in February 2016, so why are the Japanese manufacturers still behind and how can straggler Honda catch up?
