After just five days of pre-season testing in February, the 2022 MotoGP season gets underway with the first of a record 21 rounds beginning this week under the floodlights of the Losail International Circuit. Yamaha’s Quartararo won in Qatar last year, but has had a difficult winter on the 2022 M1. While the bike itself […]
The second 45-minute session of the Qatar weekend took place under more representative conditions for the race, as dusk had fallen and the floodlights came on. With the temperatures also cooler, lap time improvements on the combined order were quick to come in as the opening moment ticked away in FP2. Gresini’s Enea Bastianini guided […]
The 2022 season is scheduled to be the longest in MotoGP history, with 21 races set to be staged between 6 March and 6 November. The opening round of the campaign takes place this weekend in Qatar at the Losail International Circuit, which has hosted MotoGP since 2004 and staged grand prix racing’s first-ever night […]
Ahead of the weekend, Ducati announced it would not be running full 2022-spec engines in the bikes of Jack Miller and Francesco Bagnaia, as the Pramac riders remained with the 2022 motor. But Martin made the full 2022 package work in a scintillating opening qualifying of the season to snatch his fifth MotoGP pole. Marc […]
The 15-time MotoGP race winner and three-time championship runner-up made his factory Yamaha debut with the RNF Racing team in last Sunday’s 2022 season-opener in Qatar. After eight years of riding Ducati machinery and with no Yamaha experience since 2012 when he was a Tech3 rider, Dovizioso has struggled since he returned to racing following […]
The young Spaniard made a name for himself in Qatar last season when he stormed to a maiden pole in just his second MotoGP appearance at the Doha Grand Prix, before finishing third in the race. Martin will continue to use Ducati’s full 2022 engine and not the hybrid version factory team riders Francesco Bagnaia […]
Furthermore, the motorcycle governing body will cancel any events in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine and try to relocate them to other countries. These decisions were taken in an extraordinary meeting by the FIM on the eve of the MotoGP season opener in Qatar and follows Russia’s invasion of neighbouring country Ukraine, formerly a part of […]
Quartararo had to go through Q1 for the fourth time in his MotoGP career on Saturday after getting knocked out of the top 10 at the end of FP3. The Yamaha rider managed to progress into Q2, but could only qualify 11th and over six tenths off the pace of polesitter Jorge Martin on the […]
Suzuki has typically had one of the slower bikes in terms of top speed owing to its engine philosophy of an inline four-cylinder motor compared to the V4 that the likes of Ducati, Honda, Aprilia and KTM run. But with the ban on engine development brought about by COVID for 2021 lifted over the winter, […]
Reigning Moto2 world champion Gardner battled hard with RNF Racing Yamaha rider Binder, who steps up to MotoGP directly from Moto3 in 2022. Gardner got the better of the South African, beating him to the final point in 15th by just 0.012 seconds. However, the Australian was unhappy with Binder’s riding style, which he […]