Bastianini prevents the victory of Bagnaia and Aleix, 3rd, after the first chaos

Just three turns into the Aragon GP race, the MotoGP World Championship is up for grabs and the entire paddock will be urgently on board in Japan, which is being battered by the storm with three men separated by 17 points overall. The leader of the world Fabio Quartararo was involved in an early career adventure in Marc Márquez and Alcañiz was over for him, for both of them. Enea Bastianini He held off Pecco Bagnaia’s fifth straight win on the last lap and with a tremendous effort on his broken left little finger Aleix Espargaró returned to the podium. Quartararo now has a cushion of 10 points over Bagnaia and 17 over Espargaró.

Marc Márquez arrived on the grid like a rock star applauded by spectators from the finish line stands and greeted by those who cheered him until he approached Jose Martínez, his assistant, and his technical ‘garde de corps’ Santi Hernández and Carlos Griñán before boarding. the bicycle. The final pat on the left shoulder came from Repsol Honda team manager Alberto Puig.

never made the podium Fabio Quartararo who started the GP with 30 points to Bagnaia and 33 to Aleix Espargaró, teammate in the second row, in fourth place Aleix in sixth place. And this time it was not favorable either and the second zero of the year fell into his bag losing the comfortable mattress that had been preserved in the second third of the championship.

After giving the usual tank cap kisses before the game bagnaia He made a perfect start keeping the initiative against Miller and Bastianini, but behind him the great opponent was Marc Márquez with a very good start from 13th place in the fifth row, following Brad Binder who placed in both fifth and sixth and won the game in the second line beating Quartararo.

Monumental release of Márquez, from 13º to 6º in three curves

But reaching turn 3, Marc had a scare ‘due to sympathy’ with a Bastianini and Espargaró in front of them, who touched each other, and he slipped a little from the back, he lost of speed and Quartararo, preparing to overtake He collided with Marc suddenly and hit the Repsol Honda hard, dragging a few meters under his M1. Fortunately, Rins avoided running into the leader of the World Championship by leaving the track, and the choice of a good result for Suzuki also ended there.

Fabio’s accident on a scooter with the marshall

To make matters worse, when Quartararo was escorted on a scooter along the road by a motorland commissioner, they collided with another scooter and fell to the ground, causing a scratch on his chest.

With the bike already in the grip, when Márquez put the rear holeshot in turn 7, the wheel was blocked by a piece that slipped through the swingarm of Quartararo’s Yamaha fairing, it went to the right and into turn 8 Nakagami who fought with Marini found him and also fell to the ground with his hand injured. This time it was Maverick Viñales who had to run into a teammate who was lying on the track.

At 8 corners the race has completely exploded, if not the 2022 World Cup itself, and Bagnaia, who was oblivious to everything until the Quartararo KO was marked on the board, continues to lead for his fifth straight win, seventh of year But Bastianini arrived like a shell as he intended to avoid it. On the sixth lap he passed Miller for second place and three laps later ‘The Beast’ passed Bagnaia for the race lead. It took him a few corners before he got going and Bagnaia regained the race lead.

Ducati lost the treble

What failed was the Ducati triplet. Miller lost third place to Brad Binder and fourth to Aleix Espargaró and all three stayed there with nearly 2″ behind Pecco and Enea. As he did two weeks ago at Misano, approaching Bastianini. in Bagnaia with three laps to prepare the attack and show him the bike on the straight, twice out of the slipstream.

Aleix passed Binder for third place with two to go in Turn 1 to get back into the title fight and cut the gap on Quartararo to 17 points.

And on the last lap Bastianini passed Bagnaia cleanly at turn 7, nothing to do with his nickname ‘The Beast’ at the end of the races, and although he had no slipstream he came out with flying colors , closed all doors at Bagnaia on his 2021 Ducati. At turn 15 Pecco tried it but did not give him an option, Enea either because of a slipstream in the finish straight that separated them by 42 thousandths under the checkered flag. Behind Espargaró he added a crucial third place, his first podium since Mugello and sixth of the year to re-enlist for the title.

Regarding the other Spaniards, sixth Jorge Martín, ninth Alex Rins, 12º Alex Márquez, 13º Maverick Viñales, 15º Pol Espargaró and 20º Raúl Fernández