NOT LONG TO GO NOW

The winter Motogp drought is nearly over. This is Dani Pedrosa, exuberantly creaming his Repsol Honda around Sepang in Malaysia in the first of 2018’s three official tests that take place before the opening race kicks off in Qatar on 18 March. Little Dani did well too – he was second fastest, beating Marquez by 0.3sec. See p22