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MotoGP: Final farewell to Suzuki in 2022
The MotoGP chapter will close for Suzuki at the end of the year, the Japanese company has confirmed.
The gossip of the past few days has been confirmed as Suzuki officially announced its intention to withdraw its factory participation from MotoGP at the end of this season at a meeting with Dorna.
The decision by the Japanese company’s board of directors came as a complete surprise and left the team itself – when it was announced to them last week – shocked at the inglorious end that awaited their work in the crown of world motorcycling.
An official announcement was made by Dorna Sports, the MotoGP brand owner, claiming that Suzuki did not have the authority to decide to leave the sport on its own. The Japanese company, like all the manufacturers involved in MotoGP, has signed a contract that obliges them to stay in the sport until the end of 2026.
However, it appears that an agreement has been reached to end Suzuki’s contract with Dorna lest further legal and financial complications ensue. The Japanese company cited the financial pressure it is facing from both the coronavirus pandemic and war developments in Ukraine as the reason for its withdrawal.
Suzuki returned to MotoGP in 2015 after previously exiting in 2011. From 1974 to 2011 it continuously competed in the top category of motorcycle racing, winning championships with the emblematic Barry Sinn, Marco Lucinelli, Fu Kevin Swanz and Kenny Roberts Jr.
She left in 2011 due to the impact of the 2008 financial crisis, but in 2015 she was drawn back to the sport by regulatory changes introduced in 2016 – specifically the use of shared electronics and incentives to help new manufacturers looking to join MotoGP .
After its first modern win in 2016 with Maverick Viniales at the British GP, it won the championship again in 2020 with Joan Mir. In 2021 she replaced Davine Brivio in her race lead with former Honda and Ducati rider Livo Supo, while this year she started with two spots on Alex Rins’ podium and a firm spot on Mir’s sixth.
Nobody expected that today’s decision would come so quickly and so abruptly. “Unfortunately, the current economic climate and the need to focus our efforts on the major changes coming to the automotive world in these years have forced Suzuki to shift its costs and human resources to the development of new technologies.”according to the company announcement.
Dorna claims there is strong interest from private groups in the smaller categories to fill Suzuki’s place in MotoGP. Mir is rumored to be continuing his career at Honda, replacing Paul Espargaro while Rins’ future in the sport remains uncertain.
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One of the two new teams on the Formula 1 grid is preparing to introduce its car for the 2026 season. The Audi team will officially reveal the new car at a special event in Berlin on Tuesday, January 20.
Audi has fully taken over Sauber’s project ahead of the 2026 season and will start its first Formula 1 championship as a factory team and power unit manufacturer. The team has also retained a significant portion of its 2025 Sauber structure, including team boss Jonathan Whitley and drivers Gabriel Bortoleto and Nico Hulkenberg.
This will make Audi the fourth team to submit designs for its 2026 car, after Red Bull, Racing Bulls and Haas. The presentation will take place in the German capital in the format of a full-fledged seasonal launch.
Following the main event, a separate event will be held in Berlin on Wednesday, January 21 for selected fans and media to take a closer look at the new car and its livery.
The presentation will start on January 20 at 20:00 Kyiv time. During the event, the team will reveal the car’s full design for the 2026 season.
Let’s remember that Audi had previously put the 2026 car on the track during promotional races at the Barcelona-Catalonia circuit in early January, but only a limited number of images were released at that time.
Formula 1. Presentation of the first Audi car. Watch LIVE online
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Formula 1 driver Nico Hulkenberg can count on a multimillion-dollar bonus in his first season with Audi if he can repeat the results in the 2025 season.
Last season, the German pilot reached the Formula 1 podium after 250 races for the first time in his career and finished the British Grand Prix in third place. At Silverstone, Hulkenberg was ahead of seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and scored 15 points in one go.
Hulkenberg scored 51 points at the end of the 2025 season.
On the eve of Audi’s first season, specialized media reported that the 38-year-old pilot signed a contract providing a bonus of 50 thousand euros for each point earned in the 2026 season.
Given the large-scale changes in Formula 1, even the pilots themselves cannot yet predict the balance of power in the peloton. However, if Hulkenberg scores 51 points again, the bonus can reach 2 million 550 thousand euros in addition to his base salary at Audi.
If Nico manages to win the race and score the maximum 25 points, this will immediately earn him a bonus of 1,250,000 euros.
The team will present the appearance of its first car today at 20:00 Kyiv time.
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Thomas Berman, the younger brother of Haas Formula 1 team driver Oliver Berman, will officially take part in Italian Formula 4 and Euro 4 in the 2026 season.
Thomas will represent the VAR team colours.
The 16-year-old Briton spent last year in British Formula 4, where he scored one win and finished eighth in the final season standings.
But the ones that are considered the most prestigious and promising are the Italian and European Formula 4 championships. They are often chosen by young pilots for further career advancement. In addition, Thomas’ older brother Oliver Berman also competed in these series and became the Italian Formula 4 champion in 2021 with 11 wins.
Let us also remind you that Ukrainian Alexander Bondarev will compete in the same championships with the Prima Racing team in the 2026 season. The Ukrainian pilot does not hide his ambitions and has repeatedly expressed his intention to fight for the championship title.
Bondarev now participates in Middle East Formula 4 in preparation for the European leg of the season. After the first stage, he took first place in the general rankings and became the leader in the rankings.
Thomas Berman will compete in the Formula Winter Series as part of his preparations.
The competition between the current “four” promises to be extremely high, and the appearance of the younger brother of the Formula 1 pilot will only increase interest in the series.
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