2022 MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix: Full practice results

The 2022 season is scheduled to be the longest in MotoGP history, with 21 races set to be staged between 6 March and 6 November.

The opening round of the campaign takes place this weekend in Qatar at the Losail International Circuit, which has hosted MotoGP since 2004 and staged grand prix racing’s first-ever night race in 2008.

With an earlier schedule in place for this year’s event, which courted some criticism from riders – chiefly RNF Racing’s Andrea Dovizioso – FP1 and FP2 took place in completely different conditions.

2022 MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix FP1 results

Cla	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap
1	Brad Binder	KTM	1'54.851
2	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1'54.907	0.056
3	Alex Rins	Suzuki	1'54.978	0.127
4	Pol Espargaro	Honda	1'55.126	0.275
5	Marc Marquez	Honda	1'55.137	0.286
6	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1'55.294	0.443
7	Joan Mir	Suzuki	1'55.371	0.520
8	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	1'55.378	0.527
9	Alex Marquez	Honda	1'55.385	0.534
10	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	1'55.470	0.619
11	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1'55.600	0.749
12	Jorge Martin	Ducati	1'55.688	0.837
13	Jack Miller	Ducati	1'55.745	0.894
14	Enea Bastianini	Ducati	1'55.768	0.917
15	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	1'55.815	0.964
16	Andrea Dovizioso	Yamaha	1'55.895	1.044
17	Johann Zarco	Ducati	1'55.960	1.109
18	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1'56.112	1.261
19	Remy Gardner	KTM	1'56.262	1.411
20	Luca Marini	Ducati	1'56.540	1.689
21	Raúl Fernández	KTM	1'56.660	1.809
22	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Ducati	1'56.753	1.902
23	Darryn Binder	Yamaha	1'57.347	2.496
24	Marco Bezzecchi	Ducati	1'57.430	2.579
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What happened in Qatar MotoGP FP1?

The first 45-minute session took place in blistering sunshine in the afternoon, with KTM’s Brad Binder fastest with a 1m54.851s ahead of LCR Honda’s Takaak Nakagami and the Suzuki of Alex Rins.

Factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia crashed in FP1, with the 2021 runner-up switching to an older engine in his Ducati for the rest of the season.

Brad Binder, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing

Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images

2022 MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix FP2 results

Cla	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap
1	Alex Rins	Suzuki	1'53.432
2	Marc Marquez	Honda	1'53.467	0.035
3	Joan Mir	Suzuki	1'53.579	0.147
4	Jorge Martin	Ducati	1'53.652	0.220
5	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1'53.845	0.413
6	Jack Miller	Ducati	1'53.870	0.438
7	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	1'53.886	0.454
8	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1'53.906	0.474
9	Pol Espargaro	Honda	1'53.963	0.531
10	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1'53.971	0.539
11	Enea Bastianini	Ducati	1'54.013	0.581
12	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1'54.038	0.606
13	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	1'54.053	0.621
14	Andrea Dovizioso	Yamaha	1'54.153	0.721
15	Brad Binder	KTM	1'54.247	0.815
16	Alex Marquez	Honda	1'54.475	1.043
17	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	1'54.524	1.092
18	Johann Zarco	Ducati	1'54.565	1.133
19	Raúl Fernández	KTM	1'54.884	1.452
20	Marco Bezzecchi	Ducati	1'54.900	1.468
21	Remy Gardner	KTM	1'54.929	1.497
22	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Ducati	1'55.371	1.939
23	Luca Marini	Ducati	1'55.775	2.343
24	Darryn Binder	Yamaha	1'55.915	2.483
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What happened in Qatar MotoGP FP2?

In the second 45-minute session, run under the floodlights, conditions were more representative of what will be seen in qualifying and the race on Saturday and Sunday.

Both Binder and Nakagami failed to make it into the top 10, though Rins led the day overall with a 1m53.432s set on his Suzuki.

He headed six-time world champion Marc Marquez on the radically revised Honda, with the second Suzuki of 2020 world champion Joan Mir completing the top three.

Pramac’s Jorge Martin – who will keep the 2022 engine in his GP22 – was the fastest of the Ducatis in fourth, with Yamaha’s Franco Morbidelli fifth ahead of Jack Miller (Ducati), Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro, reigning champion Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha), Honda’s Pol Espargaro and Bagnaia.