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Bike specification may be the same but Andrea Dovizioso, Fabio Quartararo and Franco Morbidelli in a 'completely different' situation heading into the Qatar MotoGP - Dovi predicts 'a strange weekend for everybody'

LCR riders Takaaki Nakagami and Alex Marquez talk 'radical' changes made to Honda's new MotoGP machine ahead of its race debut in Qatar; 'Testing is one thing but here is where everybody will show their real potential."

Johann Zarco hoping Ducati power can help him repeat last year's Qatar MotoGP heroics, but championship 'too difficult to predict'

After two seasons derailed by injuries, Marc Marquez heads for his first Qatar MotoGP since 2019; 'My motivation is huge, we have come through something difficult and now it’s time to enjoy'

After a relatively quiet pre-season, will Ducati pick up where they left off at the end of last year as the team to beat in Qatar this weekend?

Last year's double Qatar Moto2 race winner Sam Lowes return to Lusail 'a little bit worried about how my left wrist is going to feel'

Livio Suppo hoping MotoGP can 'give some smiles for a few hours to the people who are suffering' as he heads for his first event as Suzuki team manager.

Can new world champion Fabio Quartararo overcome Yamaha's top speed deficit and repeat last year's Qatar MotoGP victory?

Pol Espargaro prepares for his second season as a Repsol Honda rider in a totally different situation than one year ago; 'It's turned around completely. Now I can apply my riding style, which I missed so much last year'.

Reigning MotoGP champion Fabio Quartararo tips Honda to have made the biggest step over the winter; 'If you check all the Honda riders, the pace is amazing'.

As one of the tallest riders on the MotoGP grid, Aleix Espargaro says he would lose noticable acceleration if he gains just 3-4kg over his 'skinny' 65kg weight.

For many riders, one of the most nerve-wracking moments of a MotoGP weekend remains passing a pre-event PCR test.

Valentino Rossi may have retired, but VR46 starts a new era as an official MotoGP team with Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi in Qatar this weekend.

Eight-time world champion Marc Marquez begins his tenth season in MotoGP this weekend.

'We are ready!' - Andrea Dovizioso, Darryn Binder and the new-look RNF Yamaha team head for the Qatar MotoGP season-opener.

Brembo will once again supply all MotoGP teams with braking systems in 2022, but a wide variety of 'customisable' parts are now available.

Last year's Moto2 title rivals Remy Gardner and Raul Fernandez ready for their MotoGP race debuts in Qatar this weekend.

Tech3 MotoGP boss Herve Poncharal confident the 2022 KTM is a 'big improvement compared to the package we had last year'.

MotoGP rookie star Jorge Martin describes his seamless transition to the Ducati GP21, but insists he won't be changing his targets despite a pole and podium in Qatar.

Doctors give the green light for Marc Marquez to make MotoGP return; 'In the current situation, it is considered that the patient can return to competition'.

Fabio Quartararo believes next weekend's Portimao MotoGP will be a true gauge of the progress made with the 2021 Factory-Spec Yamaha.

Rookie Enea Bastianini battles an unnusual problem in the closing stages of the Doha MotoGP; '6 or 7 laps from the end, my hair and sweat [went in my eyes]'

Brad Binder finds 13.8s after making the medium tyre work in the Doha MotoGP; 'I was really quite scared to go back on the medium front considering I crashed three times with it'.

An extreme KTM set-up showed promising early results for Danilo Petrucci in the second Qatar MotoGP round, but the race proves a 'difficult' experience; 'we lost a lot on the main straight, so I couldn’t defend myself'.