MotoGP
Postcard from the Coronavirus Grand Prix
The Qatar Grand Prix has always felt a bit unreal. The first time MotoGP visited in October 2004 the newly built track was a 20-minute drive out of Doha into…
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.
Latest articles from Mat
MotoGP
The next MotoGP star? Who is Joe ‘no relation’ Roberts?
Joe Roberts may have missed the Moto2 podium in Qatar, but the MotoGP paddock’s latest American star – no relation to three-times 500cc world champion ‘King’ Kenny Roberts – started…
MotoGP
MotoGP and coronavirus: where to from here?
Many people in the paddock and most fans around the world are asking when will the 2020 MotoGP world season really start. Will the team freight currently languishing in Qatar…
MotoGP
War, politics and coronavirus: When the real world catches up with MotoGP
Motorcycle racing and other sports are bubbles – microcosms of life that allow competitors and fans to invest themselves in something wonderful but ultimately trivial. When working in the paddock…
MotoGP
The story behind Ducati’s new MotoGP shapeshifter
Gigi ‘Gadget’ Dall’Igna is up to his tricks again. Ducati’s chief engineer – the man who gave MotoGP wings, holeshot devices, wheel fairings, ‘swinglets’ and much more about which we’ll…
MotoGP
Are MotoGP bikes too easy to ride?
Some people think modern electronic control systems and ever-improving mechanical performance makes MotoGP bikes undemanding. They are wrong, says Mat Oxley, and here’s why
Opinion
MotoGP
The Jorge Lorenzo mystery
The three-times MotoGP world champion’s MotoGP retirement lasted all of 81 days. And now there’s talk of a race return in June. What exactly is going on?
MotoGP
Márquez: ‘I have to suffer to enjoy the race!’
Only a fool or a dreamer would suggest that Marc Márquez isn’t favourite to win this year’s MotoGP world championship, to add to the 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and…
MotoGP
Yamaha tops first MotoGP preseason tests, but does it matter?
The first skirmish of MotoGP’s 2020 phoney war is over. Yamaha came out on top, with Fabio Quartararo fastest on each of the three days of the opening pre-season tests…
MotoGP
Viñales: ‘We can win races, but…’
After several years running along at tick-over, Yamaha’s MotoGP project is picking up revs because factory bosses have realised they need to get serious if they are to beat Honda…
Opinion
MotoGP
MotoGP and the secret life of asphalt
It’s an old racing truism that the most important part of a racing motorcycle is its tyres. Why? Because the tyres are the interface between motorcycle and race track, so…
MotoGP
Why are MotoGP V4s faster than inline-4s?
V4-powered MotoGP bikes have won 44 of the last 50 MotoGP races, a victory rate of 88 per cent, and topped the speed charts at 47 of the last 50…
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