Grand Prix

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Full race results and championship standings (unknown)

In a thrilling rain-affected Indonesian Grand Prix, the second win of the 2022 MotoGP season has gone to KTM's Miguel Oliveira.

Reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo was second on his Yamaha in his strongest wet weather display in MotoGP, while Pramac’s Johann Zarco was third ahead of the best of the factory team Ducatis of Jack Miller in fourth. Absent from the grand prix was six-time world champion Marc Marquez, who suffered a concussion in a violent crash in morning warm-up. The race was delayed by well over an hour from its original 3:00pm local start time due to heavy rain leaving the track in an unraceable condition.

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F1 ready to drop current races to make way for new grands prix (autosport.com)

Formula 1 boss Stefano Domenicali has warned that some current races will likely lose their calendar slots to new venues, with even historic circuits told ...

We have seen it in Brazil, in Spain and there are many other examples. “It's not enough to have a pedigree any more. Others will remain but in a different form, such as rotating between different tracks. “The arrival of offers from new promoters has an advantage for the F1 platform, and that is to force the organisers of traditional grands prix to raise their level of quality, in terms of what they offer the public, and infrastructure and management of the event. “We know we have to balance the arrival of new races with historic grands prix, and tracks that must continue to be part of our calendar,” he said. “There are some promoters who have expiring agreements, and probably some of the current grands prix will no longer be part of the calendar.

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