2022 Argentinian MotoGP

So far this season there have been three different winners from the first three races and nine different riders on the podium at those races, so not one rider has made the top three more than once, which hasn’t happened since 1952, the fourth year of motorcycling’s world championships.

Plus Aleix Espargaró winning his first grand prix at his 284th attempt, Aprilia winning its first premier-class GP in its 20th season of trying and both leading the world championship.

Aprilia’s first victory is also the fifth in a row by a European manufacturer – following Ducati’s at the last two races of 2021 and the first of 2022 and KTM’s in Indonesia two weeks ago. The last time European brands won five consecutive premier-class Grand Prix victories was almost half a century ago, in 1974, when MV Agusta was just about clinging onto its decade-long dominance as the Japanese factories arrived.