7 victories, 10 podiums, 5 pole positions, 3 fastest laps and 189 laps led in the race are the numbers that allowed the most outstanding ‘sons’ of Valentino Rossi, Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia from Piedmont, to finish what the Dottore once set. out: to win the MotoGP title on an Italian motorcycle.
Ducati has not won the drivers’ title since Australian Casey Stoner in 2007 and 15 years later they added the second after making the most brutal comeback in history: 91 points where Quartararo lost after the Sachsenring and after ten races he took the crown by 17 points about the ousted champion.
Marc Márquez gains momentum for 2023
2022 is a year in which Marc Márquez invests for the future. At the end of May, with excessive rotation in the right arm, he stopped to undergo the fourth and final operation in two years, to resolve the issue. He recovered in the Honda which again hurt his pilots’ heads. Despite running only 12 GPs, he was Honda’s first rider in points with 2nd in Australia.
Aleix Espargaro He was the first Spanish rider to score a victory, at the Argentine GP, his first, and allowed him to lead the standings. Two thirds of the championship was faultless, with ‘peccadillos’ such as discounted laps at Montmeló, his home GP. Then with Aprilia they got lost in the last part and finished fourth in the championship.
alex rinses contributed the other two Spanish victories of the year, winning two of the last three races (Australia and Valencia) in Suzuki’s inexplicable farewell to MotoGP two years after being crowned champion with Mir (riders) and Suyzuki Ecstar (teams). The two Hamamatsu riders will join Honda’s ranks in 2023 to try to help Marc Márquez revive the golden wing motorcycles.
Mallorca won Moto2 and Moto3
the mallorquin izan guevara respectively, he was the first to tie for the Moto3 crown, the fifth youngest winner in history at 18 years and 110 days. His numbers are impressive: 7 wins, 12 podiums, 2 fastest race laps, 5 pole positions and 163 laps led. And the year for the GasGas Aspar team was record-breaking: Triple Crown and 1st and 2nd (García Dols) by drivers.
In Moto2 the Mallorcan too Augusto Fernandez He had to suffer until the last race to break the will of the Japanese Ogura. With that title under his arm, he earned MotoGP rookie of the year for 2023.
Jose Antonio Rueda he became the first rider in history to win the Red Bull Rookies Cup and FIM Junior GP titles in the same season and secured a spot on the 2023 grid on the Red Bull KTM Ajo.
Bautista gave Ducati a double
Never in the history of the artisan factory Ducati have they conquered the MotoGP-Superbikes twice with their motorcycles, the MotoGP Desmosedici and the SBK Panigale, and only the Japanese Honda and Yamaha have achieved this.
If Bagnaia started the season weakly in MotoGP, Álvaro Bautista started very strong and then he knew how to be the most consistent despite the harassment of the defending champion, Toprak Razgatlioglu, who gave him trouble until the penultimate race in Mandalika. This time, he already knows how to finish the remaining half of 2019 in his rookie year in the series-derived motorcycle championship: winning the title with Ducati.
When MotoGP ‘dethroned’ him in 2018 on top form and a 125cc world title in 2006, Ducati roped him in to repeat a story that had already come out of Carlos Checa, the first Spanish SBK champion in 2011 and the last champion for Borgo Panigale, or Aprilia with Max Biaggi. Although in 2020-21 ‘Bati’ moved to HRC, the move turned out well in his return
Bou continues to expand his legend
Don Toni Bou i Mena continues to fatten his legend in the trial world and his legendary unbeaten streak that he has dragged since 2006 has lasted another season and now has 16 seasons winning two great individuals titles, Trial GP and X-Trial , to add to the Trial of Nations, the unofficial team world championship, with Busto and Raga
Source: La Verdad
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