The Italian of Ducati Lenovo Pecco Bagnaia took another giant step to compete for the MotoGP world title against reigning champion Fabio Quartararo by adding his fourth win in a row, sixth of the year to a tough finish to the race with La Bestia de Rimini , Enea Bastinini, his future teammate, that He took it to the limit and at the finish line passed them by 34 thousandths. Maverick Viñales broke through the Ducati wall and battled with them to finish third, his third podium in the last four races.
Pecco is the fourth rider in MotoGP history to win four consecutive races, the first and only Ducatista, after Valentino Rossi, his mentor, Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Márquez.
What have been the two strong men of the World Cup since Jerez finished fifth Fabio Quartararo and sixth Aleix Espargaró, who lost second place in the world championship in favor of Bagnaia who is just 30 points behind the Frenchman. He has cut the French 61 points in this cycle of four straight wins and they go to Aragon where Bagnaia won the final duel against King Marc Márquez himself last year and Quartararo crossed. Silverstone’s high side resulting in a leg injury also takes its toll on Aleix.
A very fine start for Ducati
From his first pole position since 2018, Jack Miller held pole position against an aggressive Bastianini and Bagnaia followed them from fifth on the grid. An initial crash involving Zarco, Pirro and Pol Espargaró at turn 1 was the first sign and with the second pass at turn 4 came the fall for Jack Miller, with so many front rebounds that he didn’t have a podium brake, and gave the head to Bastianini who was pursued by Bagnaia and Maverick Viñales.
Management was still delicate, Bezzecchi, Morbidelli and Di Giannantonio fell behind and Bastianini suffered a head scare. Bagnaia on the third lap went on the attack, leading and Viñales also overtook ‘The Beast’ and hooked the Ducatista with the aim of reducing the points in favor of his teammate Espargaró.
Fabio and Aleix are not coming back
Fifth and sixth were at that time Aleix and Fabio Quartararo after that initial scramble, mainly from the Ducatis due to the lack of grip, and ahead of them the commitment to overcome Bastianini and Marini to connect to the man from Girona. The Frenchman promised to do it personally after passing the Catalan, but the company didn’t make it easy either, Misano didn’t turn out to be the Red Bull Ring for him where he managed to cross the Ducati wall and finish second, although he had already taken out the Aprilia . who never found the same pace as his teammate Viñales in the Misano race.
Vinales proved it
Braking very hard and late and entering quickly to find the top of the curve, Bagnaia held off Viñales, who had to test it in the changes of direction. On the eleventh lap the man from Girona tried it, but the man from Turin quickly brought it back. This was the signal Bagnaia needed, he changed pace, but was answered by ‘Mack’, one of the kings of the second part of the race, and Bagnaia began to take a defensive trajectory to prevent him from passing him.
At 8 from the end, Viñales started to widen and had trouble stopping the bike and Bastianini passed him as Bagnaia put 6 tenths on them. Now the commitment is for Bagnaia because ‘The Beast’ is not playing the World Cup and because of Le Mans he was not the first to see the checkered flag and then he came when he pressured Pecco and invited him to make a mistake.
Bastianini proved it
The battle between the same concepts of motorcycles, between the Ducati hybrid versions 22 and 21, and between the two riders who next year will be their first rivals for teammates, has been cleanly resolved in last two laps of Bagnaia in their defensive trajectories They prevented Bastianini from clearly trying and in five when he was closest he had to put on the brakes. Bastianini tested it for acceleration -and less body weight- at the finish line and stayed at 34 thousandths.
Maverick Viñales was left in no man’s land with third place in his pocket and Quartararo, although he did everything to get to fourth place and steal it from Marini, he couldn’t and Fabio ended up fifth and more -Aleix is six. Aleix lost second place in the world championship in favor of Bagnaia, reducing his gap to Quartararo to 30 points
Regarding the remaining Spaniards, Alex Rins was seventh, Jorge Martín ninth, Alex Márquez tenth, Raúl Fernández 13th and Pol Espargaró fell in the first corner.
Source: La Verdad
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