Nine pilots in a handkerchief in search of leadership in the Argentine GP

Nine riders are on a handkerchief with just ten points and looking for who is the first solid leader in the MotoGP category as the main goal, when this weekend the Argentine Grand Prix will be held at the Termas de Río Hondo circuit.

Italian Enea Bastianini came this route as leader (Ducati Desmosedici GP21), which added to his victory in Qatar of the eleventh position in Indonesia allowing him to retain first place, although with a slight advantage of two points against South African Brad Binder (KTM RC 16 ) and three to Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M1), current world champion in the category.

All that will soon change is that only two grands prix have been played in a long period of twenty-one races, although after some doubtful starts the situation doesn’t seem to be that bad for Frenchman Quartararo, who is in Indonesia started a very important second place in extreme conditions as a result of bad weather conditions.

But perhaps the most outstanding note is again the absence of eight -time world champion, Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda RC 213 V), who, as a result of a severe fall during the “warm up” in Mandalikahe underwent a new process of diplopia.

A last minute medical examination advised him not to travel to Argentina despite the fact that he had a very favorable evolution of paralysis of the affected fourth right vein. The pilot, however, hopes to take part in Austin, his talismanic circuit, a week later if the next ophthalmological tests are positive.

In the United States, Marc Márquez is the true track specialist and although logic suggests he should rest, it’s no surprise that the Repsol Honda rider tried to land a second appointment on the American continent.while in the first race everyone indicated that German Stefan Bradl, a Honda test rider, would be his successor, until the withdrawal of the eight-time world champion was officially confirmed.

Pol Espargaró, second member of the Repsol Honda team, will take on the responsibility of leaving the team’s “flag” as high as possible and in his particular case amending the twelfth place he got in Mandalika’s turbulent race, then start the season with a brilliant podium -third- in Lusail (Qatar).

One who seems to have a better situation, despite his cautious preseason, is the current world champion, Fabio Quartararo, who needs to endorse the situation in which his new Yamaha YZR M 1 will find himself in same American track.

Both Enea Bastianini and Brad Binder are unknown when it comes to resultsbecause its performance depends largely on track conditions, as in the case of Miguel Oliveira and his KTM RC 16, winners in the rain in Mandalika.

The Frenchman Johann Zarco (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), maintains a fairly regular performance and this allows him to be sixth in the championship, ahead only of Pol Espargaró and his Repsol Honda and his brother Aleix in the Aprilia RS-GP steering wheel.

Behind them, the two official Suzuki riders, Alex Rins and Joan Mir, are the last on the list of nine riders just ten points apart, so all accounts that can be made at this point in the championship are that they are no longer. only speculation, as other pilots need to be considered.

Neither in this first relationship is the current world runner-up, Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP21), who barely scored a point at the start of the championship, or his teammate on the official Ducati team, the Australian Jack Miller, who was eleventh in the score table with “zero” in Qatar and fourth in rain in Indonesia.

He is also not among the best in the Maverick Viñales category, where the Italian Aprilia team expects more, who signed him last season shortly after parting ways with Yamaha as what should have been a great “surprise” by competition after the great step in evolution that starred in the Noale prototype.

Australian Remy Gardner or Spanish Raúl Fernández, on KTM RC 16 paths, are the main rookies of the season along with Italians Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati Desmosedici GP21) and Fabio di Giannantonio (Ducati Desmosedici GP21) and South African Darryn Binder ( Yamaha YZR M 1), they need to continue their adaptation phase to a new category where they still don’t have “best feelings”.