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The Brazilian Grand Prix, which had previously been announced to return in 2022, was not included in the provisional calendar released on 7 October 2021. [ 75 ] [ 58 ] The Austrian Grand Prix used a new layout of the Red Bull Ring , wherein a chicane was added to the previous fast slight-left hander of turn 2. [ 76 ]
Petronas SRT quit the sport after the 2021 season, with the management team forming a new entry for 2022. [63] It was subsequently announced that the team would rebrand as RNF MotoGP Racing starting in 2022. [64] The team continued to use Yamaha bikes for 2022, with options to extend for 2023 and 2024. [69]
The 2022 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup was the sixteenth season of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup and the tenth year contested by the riders on equal KTM 250cc 4-stroke Moto3 bikes, was held over 14 races in seven meetings on the Grand Prix motorcycle racing calendar, beginning at Algarve International Circuit, Portimão on 23 April and ending on 5 November at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia.
MotoE was introduced in 2019 as a "World Cup" until 2022 and thus statistics from that time span is not included here. [5] MotoE gained World Championship status in 2023 . The Riders' World Championship is awarded to the most successful rider over a season, as determined by a points system based on Grand Prix results.
Francesco Bagnaia finished runner-up on his first year with Ducati Lenovo Team. Joan Mir, the defending champion, finished third. Valentino Rossi retired at the end of the season after a 26-year career. The 2021 FIM MotoGP World Championship was the premier class of the 73rd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.
The Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup is a motorcycle racing series contested by young, up-and-coming motorcycle riders, who have not had experience in a motorcycle grand prix previously. The class was founded in 2007, and since then a number of the rookies have progressed through to the 125cc/ Moto3 championship in MotoGP.
The RC16 made its debut as a wildcard entry at the 2016 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix with test rider Mika Kallio. [1] For KTM's return to MotoGP in 2017, their new factory team signed 2009 125cc runner-up, Bradley Smith and the 2013 Moto2 Champion, Pol Espargaró from Monster Yamaha Tech3. [2]
A year and a half before their MotoGP debut, KTM tested their V4 engine for the first time, a configuration designed to use a steel trellis frame chassis only used by this team. In October 2015, the KTM RC16 was track-tested on for the first time at the Red Bull Ring with Alex Hofmann as the first test rider on the bike.