Mat Oxley

2 weeks ago | motorsportmagazine.com | Mat Oxley

Three months ago, Marc Márquez was going to walk the 2025 MotoGP championship. He won the sprint and main race at the season-opening Thai Grand Prix, he won the sprint and main race at round two in Argentina and he won the sprint at round three in the USA. Then everything went pear-shaped. Believe it or not, his Sunday success at Aragon was his first grand prix victory in two months, since he ran away with the Qatar Grand Prix in March.

3 weeks ago | motorsportmagazine.com | Mat Oxley

Honda has had such a difficult time in the last half-decade of MotoGP that it’s easy to forget that the Japanese brand is MotoGP’s most successful manufacturer of all time, with 314 premier-class victories, from May 1966 to last month’s French Grand Prix, and 46 riders and constructors’ championships. In 2019, when Marc Márquez was at his peak, Honda won 12 GPs. In the five-and-a-bit years since, it’s won five GPs and finished at the bottom of the last three constructors’ championships.

3 weeks ago | motorsportmagazine.com | Mat Oxley

Many years ago it was entirely normal for motorcycle racers to split their time between Brands Hatch and the Isle of Man TT. Nowadays, much less so. Short circuits and road circuits are different games, so most bike racers want to be masters of one, not jacks of both. That’s why Davey Todd is different. Last year he became the first rider in decades to win a British championship and a TT in the same year. And the plan is to repeat the feat in 2025.

1 month ago | motorsportmagazine.com | Mat Oxley

Bajaj’s takeover of KTM – finalised last week as the brand’s MotoGP teams were setting up at Silverstone – keeps the troubled Austrian brand safe for now. But does KTM’s new owner think that racing, and MotoGP in particular, is worth it? Bajaj is one of the world’s biggest manufacturer of motorcycles, annually producing around seven million two-wheelers and three-wheelers, including smaller-capacity machines for KTM and Triumph.

1 month ago | motorsportmagazine.com | Mat Oxley

Will Aprilia’s first MotoGP victory of 2025 convince reigning world champion Jorge Martin to stick with the Noale manufacturer? Maybe but possibly not, because everyone knows Silverstone is the RS-GP’s happiest hunting ground – the bike scored its first podium there in 2021 and its second win there two years later – so success at the British track doesn’t mean it’s suddenly turned a corner in development.