Last week Ducati announced that it had re-signed 2021 runner-up Bagnaia to a new two-year contract with the factory squad to take him to the end of 2024. PLUS: How Ducati has formed its 2022 MotoGP super team Miller’s current deal expires at the end of the 2022 season, and was only on a one-year deal […]
The three-time MotoGP race winner ended last year’s pre-season testing positioning himself as a title contender after a strong winter, but had a troubled start to the 2021 campaign. Though he would win twice last year, he could do no more than finish fourth in the standings and 61 points adrift of team-mate Francesco Bagnaia […]
Gardner – son of 1987 MotoGP world champion Wayne Gardner – is one of five rookies making their MotoGP debut in 2022. The Australian has stepped up to the premier class with Tech3 KTM having won last year’s Moto2 title and will be partnered by 2021 Moto2 runner-up Raul Fernandez. Also making the step up […]
The Honda rider was forced to miss the final two rounds of 2021 and sit on the sidelines for three months when a concussion suffered in a training accident left him with double vision issues due to nerve damage. Marquez went through a similar thing in the winter of 2011 when he crashed during the […]
The start of a new MotoGP season is always an exciting affair and 2022 is no different, as a stacked grid gets set to do battle for the world championship. Six manufacturers, 12 teams and 24 riders will contest the 2022 season. Two new teams joins the fray in the form of nine-time grand prix […]
The Spaniard made his MotoGP debut with Suzuki in 2019 and delivered the Japanese manufacturer its first world title in 20 years when he stormed to the 2020 championship. But the 2021 season proved to be difficult for Mir, as a lack of development for the GSX-RR meant he could only finish third in the […]
The three-time race winner and 2020 championship runner-up endured a torrid campaign last year, in which he scored just one podium as he struggled for pace in the first half of the season on his two-year-old Yamaha in Petronas SRT colours. He was forced out from June’s Dutch TT through to September’s San Marino Grand […]
MotoGP legend Rossi’s team will step up to the premier class in 2022, having previously raced in Moto2 and Moto3, and ran Luca Marini’s side of the Avintia garage in 2021. When VR46’s MotoGP step up was first announced, it was done so via Saudi Arabian company Tanal Entertainment – who at the time […]
After 26 seasons of grand prix racing, Rossi retired from racing at the end of the 2021 campaign. Earlier in 2021 VR46 announced it would be expanding into MotoGP in 2022, having run teams in Moto3 and Moto2 previously – while Luca Marini’s side of the Avintia garage was run by VR46 last year. […]
The 2020 teams’ and riders’ world champions have been on the hunt for a team manager since Davide Brivio – who helmed the Japanese marque from 2013 – departed to join Alpine as racing director in Formula 1. With Brivio’s exit coming on the eve of the 2021 season, Suzuki elected to form a management […]