Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP24) arrives in what can be considered ‘Bagnaia Territory’, in addition to Ducatithe Tuscan circuit of Mugello, which sets this weekend for the Italian MotoGP Grand Prix.
The Italian, who starred in the ‘lime and sand’ race last weekend at the ‘Barcelona-Catalunya’ circuit, when he fell in the ‘sprint’ race and won the grand prize, He arrives at a circuit that suits his riding style and his Ducati very wellwhere it won the last two editions-
The long straight of Mugello, with the impressive braking of San Donato, is the perfect setting to deploy the full potential of the prototypes made in Borgo Panigale, although both Bagnaia, due to his statistics on this track, and the Spaniard Jorge Martín (Ducati Desmosedici GP23), leader of the provisional world classification with 39 points ahead of the Italian, has a definite advantage because of how well they know their Ducati.
That, obviously, is a fact that must be taken into account, along with the fact of two consecutive victories at that stage of Bagnaiathe last of them with Jorge Martín almost a second behind him at the finish line, but they will not be the only stars, because there are a series of proper names that, for different reasons, can also stand in one of the circuits considered one of the most beautiful and technical of those that make up the motorcycle world championship calendar.
Although he only won once, in his massive 2014 season – he won thirteen grand prizes, ten of them in a row -, Marc Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP23) should be one of the riders to consider. In Barcelona, he did not get off the podium in either of the two races held, and his consistency, so far this season with Ducati last year, is worthy of consideration.
But Mugello has always been characterized as the perfect setting for local drivers to shine, so we cannot avoid drivers like Enea Bastianini, Fabio di Giannantonio, Marco Bezzecchi or Franco Morbidelli, who despite having somewhat irregular trajectory so far in the season, at the Tuscany circuit they will try to give it their all.
Although he is not transalpine, another Ducati rider to consider is Alex Márquezwho is already in Barcelona did his collaboration by ‘giving a hand’ to his brother Marc during the official classification, that due to a small mistake they were both left in the second classification, but did not become hindered his finishing seventh in the long race.
Alex Márquez will certainly try to bring back his performance on a track that so far has not been very good for him.
The pilots of the ‘Pierer Mobility’ brands (KTM and Gas Gas), with Brad Binder and Pedro ‘Tiburón’ Acosta at the helm, should be other pilots to consider, although both will have of He has to be careful not to make mistakes, something that, especially in the case of the Spanish debutant, brought him more than one good result.
Aprilia riders, Aleix Espargaró and Maverick Viñales, should be other riders to rememberbecause of their ‘local’ status as far as their motorcycle manufacturer, whose headquarters are in the town of Noale and Mugello is one of their test circuits, and because both have climbed to the top of the podium on several occasions throughout this season.
Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) is the only ‘non-Ducati’ rider to have won at Mugello in recent seasons, he did so in 2021, even though his Yamaha’s performance didn’t seem to allow him. to fight for the title yet, as well as his colleague, the Spaniard Alex Rins.
The Honda riders, Joan Mir and Luca Marini, continue to ‘fight’ to make the RC 213 V more competitive and the Mugello track will be ‘one more step’ to that goal, which now, due to what happened on the track, seems very complicated .
Among the satellite teams, the American ‘Trackhouse’ of the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira and the Spanish Raúl Fernández, who came to lead the race in Barcelona, has been “grown” a lot with the passing of the races and can be protagonists in the fight for the podium in Italy.
Source: La Verdad
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