CONCLUSIVE: The champion warns: I want to see something I like.
Defending his world title has been for Fabio Quartararo a kind of impossible fight on windmills. With each race he leaves signs of his growth as a rider, but all his efforts have fallen against his Yamaha’s lack of competitiveness. The possibility of the Japanese brand beating its World Champion worsens the relationship between the two. Other brands are not hidden from his manager’s knowledge. I know that at Yamaha they will give up in 2022 and that in Japan they will be working full time for 2023, but Fabio’s statements yesterday after training are forceful: they have taught him nothing so far that has motivated him at least … It seems like an ultimatum to me. And coincidentally he also gave a romp to Andrea Dovizioso, who the other day revealed that the problem with Yamaha was none of what Fabio said, who, having ridden the same bike for many years, was defective. And of course, “discrediting” the World Champion in that way had an immediate response. “Yes, I’ve been with Yamaha since 2019 and that’s why I know the bike better than anyone. No one should go and tell me what’s wrong.”
TOTAL PRESSURE: Ducati numbers: 15 points per race.
The factory chose Borgo Panigale as its reference driver before the championship started, Pecco Bagnaia spent his wildcards in the first four races of the season. After falling to Qatar, finishing 15th in Indonesia and two fifths in Argentina and Texas, he not only reached the start of the European season 15th in the overall classification, but in the interim championship he had four teammates in team ahead of him, including the interim leader. And when you’re number 1, that hurts. It’s true that there are 17 GGPPs ahead, one world, but from his own team they warn that Pecco has run out of ammunition. “There are no more zeros, and at least we have to finish all races in the top 5, even on the day you have a thousand problems,” warned Christian Gabarrini, the technician sitting next to Bagnaia in the box. “We calculated that the average number of points needed to win the World Cup is 15. Remember that the third adds up to 16, if one day we finish in the fifth, the next day we have to win or finish the second. ” Obviously not? So, this weekend Portimao, where in October Bagnaia got the pole and won, his round 9.
NORMALITY: The city of MotoGP is back; we are all here.
In the paddock of the World Cup there is a general feeling that the first race of 2022 in Europe means “return to normalcy”. After two seasons in survival mode, the World Championship indicates that the forced and cruel parenthesis imposed by the pandemic is over. The public is back there without restrictions, forced PCR for months and months is done, masks are reserved for closed spaces, there are visitors walking in the paddock and hospitalities are back with more more attractive than ever: The MotoGP itinerant city is back. If the championship moves 1,200 people to the GGPP from outside Europe, the “small town” will rise to 1,500 people when the season begins on the Old Continent. Despite the years I’ve been following the World Cup, I’m still fascinated with the organization this mini-city builds every Wednesday so that on Thursday it’s fully functional with all the services running. It’s really amazing. Like the speed at which everything will be dismantled once the last race is over. At midnight Sunday, where there is a city, no one stays. It is no coincidence that in English the World Cup is called the Continental Circus.
Source: La Verdad
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