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.
How do you find grip at MotoGP’s greasiest racetrack? Is there a magic trick? Do the bikes have a special no-grip button? And is it the job of the engineers or the riders to find grip?
Sixty years ago this summer, vicious battles between bikers and scooter riders darkened the country’s view of motorcycling, which still hurts UK racing, all the way from club level to MotoGP
Former MotoGP king Fabio Quartararo talks leg dangle, Yamaha’s fightback, where the YZR-M1 needs to improve, how he keeps smiling and why he thinks Marc Márquez is MotoGP’s most impressive rider
Jorge Martin and Marc Márquez thrilled us at Le Mans, leaving us to wonder what they’ll do next in their fight for the title and the most desired race bike on the planet. And how come MotoGP has served up cliffhangers every weekend since Liberty Media announced its takeover of the championship?
MotoGP’s biggest tech rules shakeup since 2002 has been announced: ride-height and holeshot devices are banned, engine performance and downforce aero are reduced. Lap times will be up to three seconds slower, which will have a knock-on effect for World Superbike rules
Jerez test analysis: Yamaha’s Dallara aero, Márquez’s frying brakes, Honda’s underwhelming redesign, another stripped GP24 and – oh no! – more pit-lane chat about chatter
Marc Márquez had his best MotoGP weekend ever with Ducati – pole position and an enthralling by-any-means-necessary duel with winner Bagnaia
Galileo studied the movement of planets at Padua University. 300 years later, it taught Ducati MotoGP chief engineer Gigi Dall'Igna a more terrestrial form of motion. Why is northern Italy — once home to Renaissance revolutionaries — now such a powerhouse of automotive knowledge?
It’s the oldest story in MotoGP: BMW is coming! MotoGP has been wooing the German manufacturer for at least two decades, because having a premium global brand like Bayerische Motoren…
Pedro Acosta lit up MotoGP once again on Sunday in the 2024 US GP, narrowly missing victory, which went to Viñales and Aprilia. Meanwhile Ducati once again struggled with the dreaded chatter
Ducati has a serious chatter problem and MotoGP championship leader Jorge Martin can’t understand why other manufacturers aren’t struggling with the same phenomenon. Plus, what does chatter do and what causes it?
Liberty’s takeover of Dorna offers big opportunities for MotoGP – most important is to change the governance of the technical rules and a TV series that replicates the huge success of F1’s Drive to Survive
