Quartararo faced his toughest commitment at the Japanese GP

Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) faces one of his toughest commitments this weekend in contention at the Japanese Grand Prix of MotoGP at the Motegi circuit, after the “fiasco” in the first lap of the Motorland Aragón race.

Quartararo’s “zero” leaves him just ten points ahead of Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), who stars in an absolutely “explosive” second part of the season, with five consecutive podiumsfour of them victories, although his compatriot and fellow Ducati rider, Enea “The Beast” Bastianini, interfered with that comeback.

Bagnaia is emerging as one of the most serious rivals, although not the only onein the fight for the 2022 world title, where the misfortune suffered by the Frenchman at the Alcañiz circuit only added excitement to the final part of the championship, with five races in just seven weeks to clarify the successor , if there is one. , by Fabio Quartararo.

In that match there were many more conditioning factors, the first being “Pecco” Bagnaia because of his situation in the points table, only ten.but it is Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia RS-GP) behind 17 points, who, as he very well explained, “stretches the gum” every two times three as much as he can and that is the to Aprilia, except for his cautious ninth position in Great Britain, fighting grand prix after grand prix to be among the best in the category and eagerly looking for a new victory to add to his record after the one in Argentina.

Aleix Espargaró has proven to be a great rider and has a motorcycle that is almost equal to the mighty Ducatiwith the widest representation in the MotoGP starting line-up, which allowed it to be mathematically proclaimed the constructors’ world champion.

And criticized or not, at least the policy of the Borgo Panigale manufacturer to impose team orders is and will be very “hackneyed”, as can be seen at Motorland Aragón, where Enea Bastianini overtook “Pecco” Bagnaia on the last lap to deduct five points from him in his private account and in the fight for the championship, where “The Beast” Bastianini entered, although he was further, 48 points behind Quartararo when 125 points remain in dispute.

The return to competition for Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda RC 213 V) did not go as expected due to a collision with Fabio Quartararo that left him in the race in the first lap of the race and in a completely unexpected event, so the eight-time world champion will come to Motegi wanting to remove that “thorn”, but with the goal of not tiring him. of remembering whenever you can have as a priority to do the maximum possible kilometers on the motorcycle.

In any case, the pilot of the energy company will be one of the benchmarks in Motegiespecially due to the fact that it is on a track owned by Honda and where the great performance and achievements of its riders are always seen with great satisfaction by those responsible for the brand, although on occasion this will be the “local” Takaaki Nakagami , after the fall he suffered with Marc Márquez himself as the star of the Teruel track.

If Nakagami doubts, who can’t be sure Joan Mir (SUzuki GSX RR), who decided to get off the bike in Alcañiz to give himself more time to recover of his broken ankle and that, surely, will be in doubt for the next race, seven days later, at the Thai circuit of Buriram.

To the long list of those who aspire to “stand out” in Japan can be added the long line of Ducati pilots who are almost always there, the Australian Jack Miller, the Frenchman Johann Zarco, the Spanish Jorge Martín or the Italians Marco Bezzecchi and Luca Marini, without forgetting the South African Brad Binder, who surprised us with his performance on the KTM RC 16, or his teammate, the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira, who wants to say goodbye to the Austrian manufacturer to join Aprilia in the best possible way.

Maverick Viñales (Aprilia RS-GP) is another rider to watch out for Well, his performance in Alcañiz was far from what has been seen in recent races due to poor training and the problems in which he was involved in the opening lap of Motorland, so the Girona native from Roses is definitely who wanted to make up for it with a good performance at Motegi.

Something more or less similar is happening to Alex Rins (Suzuki GSX RR), “grey” in the race from Teruel, who finished in ninth position, but will certainly seek to improve on the Japanese circuit, as well as his compatriot Alex Márquez (Honda RC 213 V).