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?
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.
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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?
MotoGP
How do you keep Bagnaia and Márquez in perfect harmony?
Is Bagnaia and Márquez in the same MotoGP team a recipe for success or for disaster? We looked for clues in today’s factory Ducati team launch in Madonna di Campiglio
MotoGP
Jorge Martin: ‘I will kill for Aprilia’
MotoGP king Jorge Martin has always had a killer instinct – “I guess I have a really killer mentality,” he told me a few years ago – but he believes…
MotoGP
MotoGP’s nastiest of the nasty bikes
Eddie Lawson’s fourth and final MotoGP championship was a miracle – he won the title aboard arguably the nastiest MotoGP bike of all time. His engineer Erv Kanemoto reveals how they transformed the Honda’s NSR500 and why 1989 was a pivotal moment in MotoGP technical development
MotoGP
How Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha were forged by WW2
The Japanese manufacturers are having a horrible time in MotoGP, perhaps their toughest since they evolved from manufacturing weaponry for the Japanese military in World War Two
MotoGP
MotoGP reality check: Martin won the title because he rode better, not because Bagnaia crashed too much
It’s an accepted truth that Bagnaia lost the championship through his frequent falls, but deeper analysis of his and Martin’s results prove otherwise
MotoGP
How to win in MotoGP: ‘The whole game is to make the tyres work – all the other stuff doesn’t matter’
Many believe that Ducati dominates MotoGP thanks to gadgets like mass dampers, ride-height adjusters and downforce aero, but its biggest advantage may be its in-depth tyre analysis, assisted by MegaRide’s latest gizmo
