FIRST LOOK: MotoGP riders on track for 2022 Sepang Shakedown Test
2022 MotoGP track action got underway at Sepang💛 in Malaysia on Monday morning with the start of the Shakedown test.
The five rookies - Raul Fernandez𝔍 (Tech3 KTM), Remy Gardner (Tech3 KTM), Fabio di Giannantonio (Gresini Ducati), Marco Bezzecchi (VR46 Ducati) and Darryn Binder (RNF Yamaha) - are eligible to ride over the three days, alongside the factory test riders and concession manufacturer Apr൩ilia.
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 r🐼uns from 10am to 6pm each day, followed by practice🍰 starts.
The Official Sepang test - for all ꦡcompetitors – 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 ridden by Katsuyuki Nagas✱uga.
Francesco Guidoꦕtti, new Red Bull KTM ꦦteam manager.
Darryn Binder.
Michele Pirro on the Ducati GP22.
Raul Fernandez.
Marco Bezzecchi.
Remy 🦂Gardner fractured his ri🐈ght wrist less than two weeks' ago.
Sylvain Guintoli (Suzuki).
Darryn Binder.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come an🍃d go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
