With the championship put on hold before pre-season testing resumes, teams and manufacturers continue to work on planning the next season as well as possible. However, before it gets back on the track for more testing, there will be a slew of team and structure presentations that reveal colors and goals for 2022.
With this in mind, Gresini Racing will present its colors on January 15th at 11 a.m. (CET). The structure, headed by Nadia Padovani, Fausto Gresini’s widow, will compete in the 2022 season on Ducati motorcycles after the link with Aprilia was broken. In MotoGP, bets are on Enea Bastianini and Fabio Di Giannantonio; Filip Salac and Alessandro Zaccone will be in Moto2, who competed in Moto3 and MotoE respectively last year. In the electric motorcycle category, Matteo Ferrari and the newcomer Alessio Finello are Padovani’s choice.
Another team that has already announced a date for the presentation is the WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team. Former Petronas Yamaha SRT is heading into the next season with a clean face and everything will be announced on January 22nd. Razlan Razali’s structure will only compete in MotoGP this year after the Moto2 and MotoGP teams died out. It is important to remember that the Italy-based team will line up with Andrea Dovizioso and Darryn Binder; While the Italian will have a works motorcycle, Brad Binder’s brother will again be racing with a less up-to-date machine.