WorldSBK is beginning to take shape. Following various rumours over the last few days, the provisional 2022 calendar has now been published, as Toprak Razgatlioglu prepares to defend his first world title from an attack by Jonathan Rea among others.  Familiar circuits   The 2022 calendar is largely a repeat of this season&rsquo;s schedule. For the second year running, the championship will get underway at Arag&oacute;n (during April), while Assen is the second event, also set to run in April.  The only Italian round will be staged at Misano, with Imola again missing from the calendar, just as it was this season. Phillip Island looks set to make a very welcome return, although no date is yet confirmed, while the grand finale will again play out at Mandalika, a track that all the SBK riders enjoyed this year.  The complete calendar     Translated by Heather Watson  Moto3: Acosta like Capirossi, but better than Marc Marquez 

Next season&rsquo;s key dates have been revealed. The championship will open at Arag&oacute;n and travel to Misano for round four, while Imola is left out for the second year in a row. Australia returns

WorldSBK: the provisional 2022 calendar

        We were excited to see it and it&rsquo;s finally here - the 2022 MXGP calendar has been published today and there are a lot of surprises, starting with the first races on the calendar, with England in February and Argentina in March. Sure, the schedule may see some Covid19-related changes before the start of the season but this is essentially an outline of what we can expect to see next year. We spoke about the new calendar with David Luongo, the CEO of Infront Moto Racing, who explains some of the changes for 2022. A normal-looking calendar at last, but it wasn&rsquo;t easy to put together. &ldquo;These last two years have been very difficult for us as promoter, because we&rsquo;ve run races with no spectators and for us, the tickets sales are key. The fact we couldn&rsquo;t have spectators made for a complicated period but we&rsquo;re coming out of it now. As of the German round, we started to get the fans back in, and the French and Spanish round were emotional for everyone. Getting back to a calendar that features both European races with spectators and also long haul races is crucial, because in order to be a world championship, we need to visit non-EU countries too&rdquo;.&nbsp; A return to the past, 20 GPs, 3 overseas  It looks like a return to pre-Covid times. &ldquo;We want to get back to where we were in early 2019, although we can&rsquo;t have a calendar that begins overseas due to the pandemic, so we start in Europe and then go to Argentina, and perhaps another South American country, before returning for the classic European rounds. Then we head to Asia mid-season and will also close with a long-haul round and then the MX of Nations in the States at the end of the season. The idea was to get back to 20 rounds, with three overseas events and 17 in Europe, also returning to the Scandinavian countries where we haven&rsquo;t been since 2019, with Finland and the Kymi Ring as a new entry.&rdquo; Should we expect significant changes in the coming months? &ldquo;Obviously it&rsquo;s not a definitive calendar, because it&rsquo;s always subject to changes owing to the pandemic or rules implemented by host country governments. Luckily, the vaccination means that case numbers are dropping but we&rsquo;re still nowhere near back to normal, just look at what&rsquo;s happening in Latvia. We resumed racing there last year, but they&rsquo;re back in lockdown now.&rdquo; Trentino and Sardinia the two Italian rounds  The season finished with good crowds, but the winter brings fresh fears. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re definitely moving towards a more normal situation but there are still many questions and doubts for the future. Our paddock moves 1300 people per weekend, counting the teams, riders and their families, a considerable number of people who have been continuously subjected to testing and rigid protocols that allowed us to resume racing in August 2020&rdquo;. And what&rsquo;s new in terms of Italy? &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll run two, maybe three rounds in Italy, with Trentino in early April and Sardinia in May, because we&rsquo;re very pleased with how that event went this year. It&rsquo;s different from the traditional Italian rounds and attracts people to the island even if it takes place outside of the real tourist season, transforming the MXGP into a very useful promotional vehicle for the local government.&rdquo; Nations in America and then in Europe for three years  As already announced during this year&rsquo;s Nations in Mantova, next year&rsquo;s event will run at Red Bud. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s very important for us to return to the States every so often to keep what are currently very strong relations alive. The last time we went to Red Bud, it was a big success, and it will be very interesting to see how it goes next year. Going to the States every three or four years is a priority for us. After America, it will be the turn of France, with Erne&eacute; in 2023, then we have many candidates for 2024 and 2025, before we return to France in 2026, so it could be Spain, the UK, Germany or The Netherlands.&rdquo; The calendar   Translated by Heather Watson MXGP: Jeffrey Herlings is 2021 world champion!       

The first season without Tony Cairoli will kick off in the UK on 20 February, returning to its traditional format with racing over two days. Three overseas rounds feature on the calendar, two of which in Indonesia.

MXGP: the 2022 calendar

Dorna has released a first draft of the 2022 MotoGP calendar, with a schedule that promises a record-breaking 21 rounds in seventeen different countries.  Mugello in late May, Misano in September   As already announced, Qatar will open the season on 6 March followed by Indonesia (20 March) and Argentina (3 April). After the Austin round (10 April), it&rsquo;s over to Europe, with Portimao on 24 April. The classic Jerez, Le Mans and Mugello sequence will follow, with the Italian GP set to run on 29 May. And then it&rsquo;s Barcelona, Sachsenring and Assen, paving the way for the Finnish GP, which should finally take place on 10 July.  The San Marino GP is scheduled for 4 September, the penultimate European round before the long-haul trip to Japan, Thailand, Australia and Malaysia.  The season will conclude on 6 November at Valencia.  The provisional calendar     Translated by Heather Watson  MotoGP, Bastianini is growing, but it&#39;s Marini who gets the GP22. Why not Enea? 

As is tradition, the season will kick off in Qatar and finish at Valencia. Indonesia and Finland are new-entries, their tracks still to be homologated

MotoGP: the provisional 2022 calendar is published

        Currently busy with the Showdown, which began last weekend at Oulton Park, MotorSport Vision Racing is already thinking ahead to 2022 and has issued a provisional calendar for the next British Superbike season. Eleven rounds are confirmed, just like this year, with the first eight making up the &ldquo;main season&rdquo; and the final three dedicated to the title fight. There will no return to Assen, where the series raced up until 2019, and the championship will remain on British soil, with Knockhill, in Scotland, the only event to run outside of England. The season will kick off at Silverstone, in mid-April, and conclude in October at Brands Hatch, as is tradition. The 2022 calendar  15-17 April: Silverstone (National) 30 April-2 May: Oulton Park 20-22 May: Donington (National) 17-19 June: Knockhill 22-24 July: Brands Hatch 12-14 August: Thruxton 27-29 August: Cadwell Park 9-11 September: Snetterton 23-25 September: Oulton Park 30 September-2 October: Donington Park 14-16 October: Brands Hatch Translated by Heather Watson BSB: Keith Farmer announces his retirement from racing       

Two rounds before the end of the championship and MSVR has announced the dates for the 2022 British Superbike Championship. It will begin in April, at Silverstone, with the grand finale playing out at Brands Hatch in October

BSB: next season’s provisional calendar is published

        The British GP has just begun at Silverstone, while the championship organiser Dorna has announced that there is a provisional pre-season test calendar ahead of the 2022 championship. The dates  MotoGP will complete two official tests before the start of the season, plus the shakedown at the Sepang circuit, for test riders and rookies alone, on the 31 January-2 February. Then the rest of the riders will be back on their bikes on 5-6 February, again at the Malaysian track, and on 11-13 February at the new Indonesian track of Mandalika. The first 2022 round  Dorna has also announced that the provisional date for round one of the 2022 season will be 6 March. The stage for the opening event will again be the Losail circuit in Qatar, the action taking place under the circuit&rsquo;s floodlights. Translated by Heather Watson MotoGP, Rivola: &ldquo;Vi&ntilde;ales? The aim is to have him race as soon as he's ready&rdquo;       

As the three classes compete at Silverstone, the planning of next season&rsquo;s championship continues behind the scenes

MotoGP: the provisional dates for 2022 pre-season testing and round one

        The 2021 MotoGP season is still in progress but the organisers are already looking to the future as they work on the 2022 calendar. A track that is a permanent fixture on the MotoGP calendar  While the riders are at Silverstone for the British GP, the Losail circuit has confirmed on its Twitter account that the Qatari track will once again play host to the season-opener:&nbsp;&ldquo;The opening race of 2022 will take place in Qatar at night under the floodlights at Losail International Circuit on the 6th of March 2022&rdquo;. News that confirms the importance of Qatar on the international motorsport landscape, considering its fixed presence on the calendar since 2004, the races having been held at night from 2008 onwards. 5380 metres in length and featuring 16 turns, the Losail International Circuit appears to be in demand right now, in that it may play host to a round of the 2021 F1 championship to make up for the cancelled Japan GP. Translated by Heather Watson MotoGP, Rivola: &ldquo;Vi&ntilde;ales? The aim is to have him race as soon as he's ready&rdquo;       

The news has been confirmed by the Losail circuit organisers. As usual, the GP will run at night

MotoGP: the 2022 MotoGP season will kick off in Qatar in March

Imola is not on the 2021 calendar, and it also failed to feature last year. We all know what happened after the Phillip Island season-opener, with Dorna forced to rearrange the calendar and even cancel several events. One of which was the &lsquo;visit&rsquo; to the Enzo e Dino Ferrari track, a real mecca for bike fans and paddock staff alike.  So is there a chance of returning to Santerno? It appears so, and we very much hope so. Imola circuit director Pietro Benvenuti has met with Dorna bosses at Misano, to talk about an eventual round during the 2022 season.  The last time the production-derived bikes raced at Imola was in 2019. That weekend was seriously conditioned by the weather, inclement to say the least, which led to the cancellation of race 2 and various safety-related discussions. Nevertheless, all the riders are keen to return, and Dorna too. 2022 could well be the year.  Translated by Heather Watson  SBK Misano: Rea and the Italians ready to shine in front of the fans 

The Santerno circuit is keen to host the production-derived series again, with Imola circuit director Pietro Benvenuti present at Misano. A contract for next season would be highly desirable