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.
Sunday’s opening superbike round at Phillip Island was interesting in all kinds of ways, but what struck me was where the riders doing the winning had come from. They certainly…
The question is: are CRT bikes too slow? It depends on your viewpoint. If you are Jorge Lorenzo, under pressure from Dani Pedrosa as you come upon a backmarker at…
I’ve just been writing about King Kenny Roberts for an upcoming edition of Motor Sport magazine – the made-from-trees version – regaling readers with some of his top tales. Roberts…
You can imagine the gasps of disbelief when Ducati unveiled its GP13 atop a mountain in the Dolomites last night: the bike is pretty much a GP12 with a new…
The New Year is usually a time to look forward. But the past is an easier place to talk about than the future, so please forgive me for looking backward…
The best MotoGP racers have a habit of doing extraordinary things. Only occasionally do they do things that leave you dumbstruck. It’s the start of the Japanese round of the…
This is the time of year I usually indulge myself with a list of awards, handing out praise and criticism, perhaps bearing a grudge or two and exacting a little…
MotoGP winter testing began on Tuesday in very wintry conditions, which isn’t the idea of winter testing. The weather was so grim at Valencia that Yamaha packed up and headed…
You’ve got to hand it to Jorge Lorenzo. During 2012 he was the rock in a rough sea. This has been a stormy year of dizzying change in MotoGP: the…
There’s barely going to be standing room on Phillip Island this weekend. Advance ticket sales suggest that the crowd will be at least double last year’s and possibly even bigger…
Bridgepoint’s announcement that MotoGP and World Superbike are to be run by the same company is the most significant happening in motorcycle racing since WSB’s launch a quarter of a…
It’s ten days since a potentially thrilling climax to the MotoGP championship disintegrated to the sound of shattered carbon-fibre and a chorus of Spanish expletives. Time for a cool, calm…