Mat Oxley
@matoxley
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MotoGP journo since 1988, Isle of Man TT winner, 2nd Le Mans 24 hours, 3rd EWC. Visit https://t.co/UFR5fEHYOO to buy STEALING SPEED and RACING HITLER
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Joined February 2011
Got fewer than a hundred copies of the latest hardback reprint of Stealing Speed left. You can always read it, stick it on eBay and make a profit 😅😅😎😎.
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@TRobinsonNewEra @Vankelhane Yeah. In full packs. With not a stretcher in sight. Oh dear or dear, you’re not very bright are you. It’s an AI image 😅🙄.
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It's so sad that Quartararo felt he had to delete this tweet following abuse from Neanderthals. What is wrong with people? Where is the love and respect for a fellow human being, especially a remarkably talented man who brightens our lives with his MotoGP heroics?
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This shows how lucky Nakagami was in today’s crash. Could’ve been the worst.
Amidst all the inevitable opprobrium being, rightly or wrongly, heaped upon Taka,we should perhaps take a moment to reflect on the fact that the dude head-butted a Ducati rear wheel in a MotoGP Race and lived to tell the tale.
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“It’s the first race & we have four riders in hospital, we can’t continue like this”
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A funny moment from yesterday’s test - Tardozzi invites a curious HRC engineer into the factory Ducati garage to take a closer look at the GP24 👀👀👀👀
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I’m at a Silverstone track day and check out this poseur - Rossi riding kit, Rossi replica bike etc etc. All the gear and no idea 😂😎
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Anybody tweeting stupid shit about Marc Marquez this morning can fuck off. If you want to feel like he feels now, get into your leathers and lid, climb on the roof of a mate's car, let him or her to get up to 100mph & jump off. (On second thoughts, don't, but you get my point.).
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I may be banned from interviewing a couple of riders but at least the winners will still speak to me 😉😬 Thanks to Marc for catching me at my best 😂😂
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Biggest discs ever seen on a MotoGP bike - 355mm rotors mandatory for the first time here - brakes get more of a hammering here than anywhere else
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Nicked from Carlo Pernat's Insta - Marco Simoncelli with Enea Bastianini in 2010
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Danilo Petrucci will ride his last MotoGP race on Sunday, take a short holiday, then start training for his first Dakar in January! I will miss him because there are few MotoGP riders who are as willing & able to explain things - technically & emotionally - as him. Good luck!😎✊
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Never seen a racing crash like this before 🤯 from the NW200 yesterday. Manxman Paul Cassidy collided with a rival, which sent him into a wall. He landed on a parked car & didn’t break anything. Very lucky boy
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First retro livery. Original Yamaha colours from when they won their first MotoGP title in 1975 with Ago
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Gave a free copy of my book to this bloke. Do you think he deserves it? 😂
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BOOM! Former Suzuki boss Davide Brivio is back in MotoGP. He's the new team principal of Trackhouse Aprilia
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So this means it’s official. MM gets the factory Ducati seat, so Martin sticks to his word and goes elsewhere. Overall this is great news for the championship because Aprilia needs a super super fast rider like Martin 😎😎.
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Multi-year contract: & Hell hath no fury like a rider scorned 🔥 (if that was the case). To me, this is the final piece of the Aprilia jigsaw 😎
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Something in my eye.
Wayne Rainey (paralysed from the chest down) making history by riding his #MotoGP championship winning bike up the #GoodwoodFOS hill, followed by Kenny Roberts. #Goodwood #festivalofspeed
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For the eejuts that think MotoGP riders are pampered prima donnas who just open the throttle and let the electronics, aero and devices do the work, here is MM losing the front and then getting highsided at Sachsenring's turn 11, at 120mph. His leathers were wrecked, so he got
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MotoGP really needs to do something, like most other sports, to say racism, sexism, homophobia will not be tolerated. And not only because it wants to attract new - younger - fans and therefore it needs to be more enlightened. I’ve been in the paddock 36 years & NOT ONE gay.
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Rossi’s media debrief was rammed today. For obvious reasons. Which I why I made sure I got in the first question: “Can you tell us about how the carbon swingarm changes feel, grip & tyre life?” Cue 50 angry journos going: what the fuck did he ask that for?! 😂😂😂😂.
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Belgian mechanic Bernard Ansiau has now won MotoGP/500cc world championships with Wayne Rainey, Mick Doohan, Valentino Rossi and Fabio Quartararo. That's a total of 16 MotoGP/500cc titles🤯🤯🤯🤯😎😎😎😎
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When a MotoGP rider uses a gay slur the paddock rushes to defend him, when a MotoGP rider receives homophobic abuse, the paddock stays silent. It's time MotoGP became a more enlightened, welcoming place.
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Funny moment at the end of Q2 as riders line up for their practice starts – Bagnaia and Quartararo messing with all the buttons on Espargaro's RS-GP 😂
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Keep Jorge Navarro in your thoughts today. He broke a femur in Sunday’s Moto2 race & was bleeding profusely, possibly having severed his femoral artery, which can cause death in minutes if not stemmed. He's recovering in hospital. Yet another run-over-by-the-rider-behind accident
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Can't stop watching/listening to this. Dunlop up the Mountain Mile. You can hear him coming for 20 seconds😍.Full screen and turn it up to 11.
Michael Dunlop at the Mountain Mile on the way to winning the @ttracesofficial @ttracesofficial Superbike race 2023. @M_Dunlop3 135mph on lap 2. SOUND UP ! #iomtt #ttraces #tt2023 🇮🇲
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Alex Marquez has had so many people bumping into him recently that he's added a new sticker to the rear of his Gresini GP23 🤣🤣🍼🍼
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Crutchlow heads out for his set-up ride on Lawson’s 1989 NSR500
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Gresini Ducati are having a lot of fun with this. From their Insta
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Anyone who booed Marquez on the podium - and/or when he crashed on Saturday - is a twat.
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This is what’s super-cool about @fosgoodwood 😎 waiting for the MotoGP run up the hill, while F1 cars come past to take their place in the queue 😀😀😀😀😍😍😍😍😍
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Funniest moment of the weekend was after the GP when Pramac (understandably) shut their garage door. Therefore the TV director switched to Martin’s seat cam. One of the mechanics couldn’t understand how they were still on TV with the garage door closed 😅.
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Marquez. Not often you see someone in MotoGP overtake seven riders in one corner. Also not often you see MM defending.
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Proof that MotoGP is better than F1 😬.
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This is the first photo I've seen in which Marc Marquez really looks at one with the Ducati and is squeezing everything out of it - body position etc 📸🔴🐂
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You want some lean angle? Here’s some lean angle - Bagnaia leading the old man in Valencia qualifying 💪💪👏👏✊✊😎😎
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Seems Bagnaia has nothing broken which is wonderful. Binder visited him in the medical centre and said: “I didn’t expect to find him chilling!”. No word about Misano but with no broken bones you’d assume he’ll have a go at least.
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MotoGP 2025 begins next Tuesday at Barcelona: testing 10.00-17.00. Márquez on a factory Ducati. Martin & Bezzecchi on Aprilias. Vinales & Bastianini on KTMs. Miller & Oliveira on Yamahas etc etc 😎✊😍.
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Hi @AggregateUK Since you've threatened me with legal action for doing my job at the Silverstone MotoGP round, I'd like to help you with your job of undertaking a review of your work. I've collated comments from riders, teams & MotoGP management in the hope they will be of use.
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Just a guess but Marc Marquez could be ending his long relationship with Red Bull because the factory Ducati team is with Monster. He wore no Red Bull logos in the tests & there are no photos of him on the Red Bull site, whereas there's plenty of other Red Bull riders like Martin
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A very tearful goodbye to Suzuki PR guys Federico Tondelli and Alberto Gomez, two of the very best in the MotoGP paddock. Neither has a job for 2023, so someone please GIVE THEM A JOB!!! 💪💪💪
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Victor Steeman has died following his Portimao crash. All thoughts with his loved ones. However, something needs to change in WSSP300/Moto3. That's 4 deaths in Dorna WSSP300/Moto3 events in 16 months, which is unacceptable. And more are inevitable under the current rules #RIP
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MotoGP has been getting more & more dangerous in the last few years due to speeds, aero etc & now we are starting races with zero suspension travel, flat front tyres (1.4 bar) & everyone arriving at Turn One together. This needs to stop. Hope no one is seriously injured🙏.
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Truly amazing! Michael Dunlop takes his 27th TT win to overtake uncle Joey & become the most successful of all time. Remarkable in itself but when you consider the trauma he’s been through: total dedication & love for what he does ✊✊✊💪💪💪💪😎😎😎
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Today was busier than expected after two quiet days. Total three day crowd 112,000. Not bad for a first attempt. Fans seemed knowledgeable & really into it, which really makes an event 🇮🇳
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Petrucci just unveiled his MotoAmerica Ducati superbike 👍👍 “I didn’t think I’d put my leathers on again…” His first race is this weekend at COTA
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I think it's very sad & wrong that there's no tribute to Haruki Noguchi at Red Bull Ring, following his death yesterday. Noguchi was a member of this paddock only recently, finishing 3rd in the 2019 Red Bull Rookies behind Carlos Tatay & Pedro Acosta. And he won at Red Bull Ring
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Ducati is so clever at equipping its MotoGP riders with production bikes for training and further using that as a marketing tool
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Zarco’s long lap was awesome. Tyres inside the white line by a few mm, knee outside the line 🔥🤣.
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Hickman told me he uses wheelspin to turn the bike at the TT, especially at very high speeds when the bike just wants to go straight. This is the left at Crosby village, probably 170/180mph. Stunning photo 😍😍💪💪.
Seen this, @matoxley? @peterhickman60 entering Crosby. He once assured me he's cruising around the TT. I'm not sure I believed it than, but I sure as hell don't believe it now. What an image.
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So I tried again to photo the #MotoGP scrutineers checking tyre pressures according to the new rules. I stood in pit lane, not in the scrutineering bay. I was told to go away & then had the Dorna heavies threaten me. What is a MotoGP fan to make of this? Cos these are the people
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Petrucci is back in the Dakar, although he'll be riding the last nine days to gain experience for next year, rather than get a result.
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Thanks for everyone's advice on how a 9-times world champion should train, prepare for races, live his life, serve his sponsors & fans etc👍🏼.
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Just doing some research and found this photo: Marquez overwhelmed with emotion at the 2021 Portuguese GP after his first finish since November 2019. With crew chief Santi Hernandez. This is what it means to these people 😎😎✊✊👏👏
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BTW I don’t think Marc Marquez will be accepting riding advice from Twitterati who have not 1% of an inkling of what it takes to ride a MotoGP bike & to ride one at the level he rides. By all means join the conversation if you’ve ridden at world championship level, otherwise….
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Delighted to watch Franco Morbidelli win his first MotoGP race. Such a cool guy. And possibly even more impressed to see him become the first MotoGP rider to bring the BLM issue into motorcycle racing. Huge bravery on AND off the bike 💪💪
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I don't get when some people say MotoGP bikes look rubbish. How cool does this look? FORM should follow FUNCTION & the Ducati's function is to go round racetracks faster than anything, which it does. Engineering doesn't stay static. Remember that one of the reasons Norton quit
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Andrew Wheeler took many fantastic MotoGP photos, including the cover shot for VR All His Races. It's so perfect you'd think it was a studio photo - lighting, position etc etc - but it's Rossi emerging from his garage during the 2013 Misano GP, ie gone in a split second #RIP
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Huge congratulations to Jake Dixon on his first GP win! I have big respect for any British rider who doesn't take the usual British route and spend his career in WSB but instead risks it all in the highest-level championship: ie Dixon, Lowes, Crutchlow etc 👏👏💪💪.
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Oh. My. God. I hope Petrucci goes full-time rally raid, rather than MotoAmerica because to become the first MotoGP and Dakar winner would be epic. 👏👏👏👏.
🏁 Stage 5 🏍. @Petrux9 wins the stage! He becomes the first former @MotoGP rider to seal a win on the Dakar!. #Dakar2022
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I agree with Bagnaia. MotoGP says rider comms are for safety. This is bullshit. MotoGP just wants to use them as part of the team entertainment package. MotoGP doesn’t even need that: it’s 45 mins, not 2 hours like F1.
MotoGP has been pretty insistent for a while that they want radio communications. But Pecco Bagnaia tried it on Tuesday and says the current tech isn’t just unusable, it’s dangerous
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