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.
Cal Crutchlow most likely has another 27 races to go before he hangs up his lid and leathers. If he does retire at the end of next season it will…
It’s almost 40 years since MotoGP’s first carbon-fibre chassis, so with Honda’s and Suzuki’s latest carbon-fibre frame coatings, how long before we see the next fully carbon MotoGP bike? Honda's…
More from Silverstone: does Rossi have a carbon-fibre swingarm on the way? How Miller joined the Hells Angels, briefly; the agony of Lorenzo’s comeback weekend; why Márquez went back to…
Riders quitting, riders getting sacked, riders getting hurt; what really goes on in the mind of a MotoGP rider when all his dreams turn to dust? Zarco at Red Bull…
MotoGP Race Insight: The Spaniards’ epic encounter at the 2019 British Grand Prix was a fascinating battle of different riding techniques and different machine configurations The gap at the finish…
Barry Sheene and ‘King’ Kenny Roberts fought a breath-taking duel for victory at the 1979 British GP, notorious for Sheene’s cheeky hand signal Sheene's notorious hand signal Photo: sheenemovie.com On August…
More news from the 2019 MotoGP Austrian GP: how tyre molecular chains are changing the sport, Yamaha’s slow-motion comeback, HRC’s latest innovations and will Miguel Oliveira replace Johann Zarco? Dovizioso,…
Ducati won its first MotoGP race in five months on Sunday, but the weekend proved that the Italian factory has forgotten how to look after its riders Pramac Ducati's Jack…
The trouble with Andrea Dovizioso is that he doesn’t have a killer’s instinct. Dovi at the 2019 Austrian Grand Prix: “Hold my beer…” Dovizioso and Marquez were this close time and…
It’s a quarter of a century since Mighty Mick Doohan won his first 500cc world title at Brno. Here’s how he did it... Mick Doohan would dominate the 1994 season…
They say you have to suffer for your art and that’s exactly what MotoGP's Ducati riders Troy Bayliss and Loris Capirossi did in 2003 when the dudes at Marlboro must’ve…
Why do you think you’ve had more immediate success in MotoGP than you had in Moto2 and Moto3? I think that to be fast in this category you don’t only…
