FIRST LOOK: MotoGP riders on track for 2022 Sepang Shakedown Test
2022 MotoGP track action got underway at Sepang in Malaysia onꦇ Monday morning with the start of the Shakedown ♐test.
The five rookies - Raul Fernandez (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 𒁏test riders and concession manufacturer Aprilia.
Four of the five rookies are also making their track debut🏅 in full 2022 race livery, with onlꦏy Bezzecchi still in a black test livery.
Testing at the Sཧhakedown runs from 10am to 6pm 🦋each day, followed by practice starts.
The Official Sepang test - for all competitors – will then beꦉ 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 Katsuyukiꦚ Nagasuꦐga.
Francesco Guidotti, new Red Bꩲull KTM team manager.
Darryn Binder.
Michele Pirro on the Ducati GP22.
Raul Fernandez.
Marco Bezzecchi.
Remy Gardner fractured hisꦕ righ🌌t 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 and go. He is at the forefront of the Suz🐻uki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
