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 will be sore in body and mind this week. For him, Sunday’s Hertz British GP at Silverstone was the ‘it Hertz’ British GP. He’s now getting his fractured…
The war has been going on for some while now and finally the deciding battle is ready to be fought. The opposing armies are camped out on either side of…
Casey Stoner’s retirement bombshell overshadowed everything at Le Mans, but it wasn’t the only talking point. The other story that grabbed people’s attention was the Tech 3 brakes saga which…
Personally, I hate all new technology, without exception. Well, except anything that allows me to be lazier than I already am. So, yes, I will grudgingly admit that new technology…
VW Audi ownership will change Ducati, as it did Lamborghini. And what might happen to the Italian factory’s racing interests? Depending on your viewpoint, VW Audi’s £700 million purchase of…
Jorge Lorenzo had a perfect weekend in Qatar, his body and motorcycle in winning condition. Not so Casey Stoner… As a racer, Stoner would appear to have no weak points.…
So that’s that, then – the final shots of the ‘phoney war’ were fired at Jerez last weekend. Now, finally, it’s time to look forward to the real thing. There’s…
Next Sunday, March 17, marks the 71st running of the Daytona 200, once the traditional curtain raiser for the international bike racing season. Nowadays the event is a shadow of…
British MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow spent last season learning how to ride a MotoGP bike and being awestruck by MotoGP’s greatest talents. Here’s what he thinks of Stoner, Lorenzo and…
Great to see the two grandest men of bike racing inducted into the Motor Sport Hall of Fame this week, taking their place alongside Fangio, Senna and the rest. John…
About this time of year in 2007 I watched Casey Stoner and his wife Adriana walk out of the back of the pits at Sepang, get into their hire car…
Unless you’re at the sharp end of racing – frantically fettling in readiness of the new season – this can be a grey time of year. Which is why we…