The Frenchman overwhelmingly dominated the MotoGP race in Montmeló and his win was made even more valuable by the way Pecco Bagnaia, Enea Bastianini and Aleix Espargaró performed
Fabio Quartararo arrived at the Catalan Grand Prix after swept away his fears of the Mugello circuit and the long straight with a close second place finish. There, in Italy, Pecco Bagnaia had triumphed, on paper the most powerful of his rivals in the battle for the title, although the general classification kept him in fourth place with 41 points, especially after the Ducati’s failure in France, where he went from second place to a zero point departure after failing to manage the duel with Enea Bastianini.
Despite this, Bagnaia’s weight as a contender remained indisputable due to the potential of his bike and what had been seen at the end of the 2021 season. That fear of Mugello’s straight was the same as the French confessed about that of the Barcelona-Catalonia circuit, theoretically a handicap for the bad engine of his Yamaha. But on Sunday, Quartararo shone and gave no options to those who want to take the lead of MotoGP from him.
He was first from the first corner, then pushed through and went for the win. And from that first corner, without Bagnaia being able to put any pressure on him. Takaaki Nakagami, who started twelfth, crossed the straight from right to left, braked later than expected, and climbed into the top positions while losing control of his Honda. The Japanese slammed his head against the Italian Ducati’s rear wheel and sent him to the ground, while his bike did the same to Álex Rins’ Suzuki. A carom that excluded from the outset one of those who had to fight for the win.
“You can’t expect to pass ten riders in one stop,” Bagnaia complained. “It went well and I don’t know where I wanted to go… We threw away the opportunity to score good points, even win, but things are as they are,” he lamented, speaking harshly to the Carrera Directorate and his decision not to penalize Nakagami, along the same lines as Rins, who compounded his anger with an injury to his right wrist that left him in doubt for the next German Grand Prix.
Anyway, after what happened in Catalonia, Bagnaia has dropped to fifth overall and is now 66 points behind first place, removing one of the theoretical strongmen in the category. “It will be tough, but the tough ones will keep fighting, and I’ll try until the math says it’s impossible. Last year I was determined to make up 70 points in five races, and many more to come now. ”
Victory for Quartararo, zero for Bagnaia and zero for Bastianini, who finished third in Montmeló, adding even more value to the Frenchman’s result. “Fabio has been launched, just like last year. He’s very consistent and I think only he can lose the World Cup at the moment,” he acknowledged the revelation of the current campaign and the only one to win three times, after a crash in the sixth round, which left him in third place despite remaining third in the championship. the ranking sees him see the first with 63 points And the third to increase the success of the winner in Catalonia was none other than the second in the World Cup, Aleix Espargaró, in a mistake that left him at least the rest made a martyr from Sunday.
Espargaró had it in his hands to take second and let him escape because he finished the race early, finishing one lap early, a failure that is not new in motorcycle competition. In fact, Julito Simón lost a win in 2009 in 125cc for the same reason, having misinterpreted the lap signaling from the Barcelona-Catalonia circuit tower. A big mistake that he still had time to make up for fifth place, which left him 22 points behind the leader when he would have been 13 at the moment. “I wanted to secure second place and since I didn’t see the remaining laps I looked at the tower and I don’t remember here the last lap is marked L0, I saw L1, I made a lap and I cut. I don’t know, I was so focused that I didn’t notice the checkered flag or something and it’s a very big mistake,” admitted the man who completed Quartararo’s Sunday round.
Source: La Verdad
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