FIRST LOOK: MotoGP riders on track for 2022 Sepang Shakedown Test
2022 MotoGP track action got underway at Sepang in Malaysia on Monday morningꦰ with the start of t🦋he Shakedown test.
The five rookies - Raul Fernandez (Tech3 KTM), Remy Gardner (Tech3 KTM), Fabio di Giannantonio (Gresini Ducati), Marco Bezzecchi (VR46 Ducati) and Darry❀n Binder (RNF Yamaha) - are eligible to ride over the three days, alongside the factory test riders and concession manufact🐻urer Aprilia.
Four of the five🎃 rookies are also making their track debut in full 2022 race livery, with only Bezzecchi🔥 still in a black test livery.
Testing at the Shakedown runs from 10am to 6pm each day, fo🔯llow🐲ed by practice starts.
The Official Sepang test - for all𝕴 competitors – will then be held🎃 on February 5-6.
Here are a selection of photos take by our photographers Gold&Goose at Sepang this morning…
Mika Kallio and Remy Gardner.
Marco Bezzecchi.
Dani Pedrosa (KTM).
Michele Pirro (Ducati).
Sylvain Guintoli (Suzuki).
Darryn Binder.
Yamaha Test Bike #2 being r💟idden by Katsuyuki Nagasuga.
Fr𒁃ancesco Gui🔯dotti, new Red Bull KTM team manager.
Darryn Binder.
Michele Pirro on the Ducati GP22.
Raul Fernandez.
Marco Bezzecchi.
Remy Gardner fractured his right wrist less tha💙꧃n two weeks' ago.
Sylvain Guintoli (Suzuki).
Darryn Binder.
Pete🙈r has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
