Bagnaia fortified itself with victory over Mugello

In just two weeks, a world upside has been relieved for the Ducati ranks already with Enea Bastianini and Pecco Bagnaia of their unexpected double flagship from two different worlds, a satellite team, Gresini Racing, and the official team. If Bastianini won Le Mans and Bagnaia fell out of the chase, at Mugello Bagnaia claimed that in an impeccable career he got his second win of the year as Bastianini saw his return cut short by a turnaround. crash.

The two most regular men of the year in MotoGP Fabio Quartararo and Aleix Espargaró -his fifth podium in the last 6 GGPPs- accompanied him to the podium and now the Frenchman leads the table with 8 points over Catalan, Bastianini fell to 28 points to 41 points Bagnaia.

Q2 conditions, suitable only for the brave or for riders without a hitch, led to a fabricated grid with four Ducati satellites on top and a surprising poleman, rookie Fabio Di Giannantonio. And behind them are theoretically two strong men of the race namely Pecco Bagnaia and Fabio Quartaro. And from seventh place Aleix Espargaró, eager to stand out to Ducati with his Aprilia at home GP for both brands.

From pole position, ‘Diggia’ maintained the initiative against the VR46 Ducati until it disappeared into the chicane in the hands of rookie also Bezzecchi and Quartararo and Aleix Espargaró who developed after three Ducati satellites. Mal Pecco Bagnaia who lost a lot of spots in the first corners for being too conservative, Le Mans ’mistake was forced.

Marc Márquez: A top-10 to say goodbye

Marc Márquez went eleventh to seventh in that first corner until he was stabilized first after Brad Binder’s KTM in ninth place. But over turns, one from Cervera loses positions, that arm not enough on a circuit with two chicanes and mostly curves on the right hand, the worst in its scenarios. The goal was the top 10 and it was achieved -only 11 “800 from Bagnaia, quite a success due to its conditions- and the task was to test the new chassis and swingarm in the races to give the final indications to the HRC before underwent next week in the US He settled in a quartet for eighth place with Oliveira, Nakagami and Diggia before they were run over by the Japanese and finished as the best Honda.

In three laps, Quartararo was already ahead of Diggia for third place with only two Ducatis from Valentino Rossi’s team leading, while Bagnaia had already reached the top-5, ahead of the older Espargaró. El Diablo overtook Marini in the fourth lap with Bagnaia 1 “behind him, but Pecco fired and at the end of one lap, Bagnaia overtook Marini and Quartararo for second place.

The promotion of success

And on the eighth lap on Turn 1, came the overtaking between the VR46 Academy riders and the start of the breakaway for Bagnaia. With 9 tenths lost with Bagnaia, the Frenchman was able to overtake Bezzecchi for second place, but was severely harassed by Rossi’s two Ducati and that of Aleix Espargaró and Bastianini, the fastest on the track in the second half of the race but 2 ”3 from the leader, complete the quintet Until he fell 10 laps from the end of The Beast, the soft back didn’t hold this time.

Aleix Espargaró overtook Marini by just 9 laps and now it was only Bezzecchi who separated him from the podium, something he achieved after two laps. Ahead, Quartararo reduced the tenth by tenth, but he was unable to stabilize below the second with respect to his Italian rival, more hungry risk to add 25 points due to the delay in the table that has he. They were 46 at the start of the GP and they are 41 now.

And the panorama has not changed for the last five laps in terms of the podium, the three considered the result as great, Bagnaia because he added 25 vital points, Quartararo for saving with a very high record the worst case scenario for him due to the deficit of top speed and for Aleix Espargaró his fifth podium of the year. Zarco left the VR46 pilots to become the first animators.

Martin broke the speed record: 363.3 km/h

As for the other Spaniards, Marc Márquez said goodbye after being the second best Spaniard and Honda in the race, tenth, twelfth Maverick Viñales, 13th Jorge Martín who broke the speed record with 363.3 km/h, 14th Alex Marquez and 21st Raul Fernandez . In the same seventh lap, first Joan Mir and then Alex Rins crashed, courtesy of Nakagami, on another weekend to forget for Suzuki and Pol Espargaró in turn 9 hit a good stick in fifth lap.