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.
Part two of our chat with Yamaha’s ex-Ducati, ex-Ferrari F1 tech boss Max Bartolini, who tells why MotoGP’s current tyres and new rules made a V4 inevitable and why it’s so difficult to catch Ducati
No one in MotoGP has more work to do right now than Yamaha, which is developing an all-new V4-powered motorcycle, while continuing development of its inline-four YZR-M1, because it’s not…
“I never really considered myself a road racer, I just did road racing to get Grand National points in the States.” So says one of the greatest motorcycle road racers…
Something remarkable happened during yesterday’s first pre-2025 MotoGP tests at Barcelona. It wasn’t Gresini Ducati’s Alex Márquez going top, nor was it his older brother Marc’s first outing on a…
Dorna and Harley announced a MotoGP collaboration on Monday, but collaboration for what? It’s not quite certain. So what’s going on?
How Martin mixed devastating speed with numerous second-place finishes to win a season-long tussle with reigning MotoGP champion Pecco Bagnaia
Anything can happen in motorcycle racing and usually does, so nothing is for certain when Bagnaia and Martin line up at Barcelona this weekend. And how did they get here? Here’s your blow-by-blow account of the 2024 championship, during which they’ve swapped the points lead five times!
Yamaha’s all-new V4 MotoGP bike could have its rollout test next month. The 1000cc machine is expected to turn its first high-speed laps at Sepang, Malaysia, most likely by former…
The Malaysian GP was full of drama. Bagnaia crashed out of the sprint, which left MotoGP points-leader Martin sitting pretty for the main race, but he still risked it all in an epic duel with the reigning champion
How Ducati uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to solve MotoGP’s greatest riddle: the exact interaction of man and machine on the racetrack
MotoGP’s seesaw season of mistakes is coming down to the finest details: Martin using his get-out-of-jail-free card and Bagnaia finding drying kerbs in Thailand. And what about Acosta – he’s now scored five times more podiums than any other non-Ducati rider!
Saturday’s Viñales/Bezzecchi pile-up wasn’t MotoGP's first air-stop accident and it won’t be the last, but these crashes aren’t down to the riders, they’re the fault of the bikes. It’s concerning that no one is doing anything to fix the problem
