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It is now only 30 days till Hughs first race of 2022. Hugh tells us. "Can't believe it will be almost 6 months since I last raced. Magny-Cours was the last round of the French Championship and I was only 4 points from winning the championship outright".

• 14-year-old Kiwi takes next step on ladder to Formula One future • Talented teenager joins top Carlin team to contest 2022 F4 British Championship • Successful first pre-season test completed at famous Brands Hatch circuit

There are many factors that determine how well a sport is doing, whether that be in a sporting or entertainment sense, financially or environmentally, but the quantitative method of judging the health of motorsport is the number of competitors in a particular category.

The XCATs made their first Official Practice of the 2022 season in warm welcoming Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

Ben Collins (BBC Top Gear’s original Stig, now on YouTube), and SAS veteran, Jay Morton, re-sign with Praga for 2022 Ben and Jay will once again partner-up to compete a new Praga R1 race car

Pascal Wehrlein wins Mexico City E-Prix and completes a historic one-two for TAG Heuer Porsche, with teammate Andre Lotterer finishing second. DS TECHEETAH's Jean-Eric Vergne rounds off the top three

"The driver who won the championship by 15 points has his own F4 car to practice with, the driver that finished 3rd his dad works as an engineer for the best Jnr formula team in Europe, So not bad for a kid from Melbourne in his first year in the Open-Wheel Cars" Hugh told us.