With the penultimate round of MotoGP in the bag, the Paddock Pass Podcast crew look bag at a tense Sepang race and its effect on the 2022 MotoGP championship. Neil Morrison, Adam Wheeler, and David Emmett kick off the show with the question of whether Enea Bastianini did the right thing in pushing Pecco Bagnaia so hard, given they are both in the pay of Ducati, and will be teammates next year. That leads into a discussion of team orders, and whether they were needed.

We also ask whether 2022 has been a good championship or not, and compare the points tally with previous years. Is the level of talent very high, or the points scored so low? We then dive into Ducati's season, and David asks if Pecco Bagnaia could have wrapped the championship up earlier if Ducati hadn't spent to much of the off-season and practice at Qatar testing.

Other topics for discussion are John McPhee's outstanding pass in the Moto3 race, Pecco Bagnaia's superlative start, and whether the battle between Augusto Fernandez and Jake Dixon resembled the Rossi/Marquez battle in 2015. And we wrap up as always with our winners and losers.

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