Mid -season MotoGP records

The story goes that whoever is typically on vacation leading the MotoGP World Championship rarely loses the championship in the second half, their rivals have to take the risk to come back and stability ends up being a plus. So far, Quartararo with his 21 points on Espargaró is facing him, but on his return to Silverstone he is hampered by a pending penalty in the form of a long lap in the race. It was still in the middle of the campaign, but there were two riders with limited excellence in MotoGP, Fabio Quartararo and Aleix Espargaró, and they received the best marks. They’re not all of that, whether there are all those who stand out or your expectations to stand out.

9 Fabio Quartararo

His start where he was guilty as a ‘crybaby’ due to lack of top speed compared to his rivals instead of focusing on himself and Assen’s rookie error, his only zero of the year, prevented reigning champion from 10 in a season in that in Europe is embroidering it. He no longer has to be an explosive driver to cough up to make poles, he dominates races with an iron hand.

9 Alex Espargaro

Whatever he does in the second half, he is the breakout driver of the year. Fighting for the title against champion Quartararo using the ‘ashy’ Aprilia motorcycle and being on the road for 33 years is tremendous merit. He signed the first success of his career at Termas de Río Hondo and four other podiums, he was the only one to score in all of them. His pass over Binder and Miller to the Assen chicane was ‘cum laude’, so far the action of the year. Who remembers after that ‘monument’ of the Montmeló mistake?

7 Enea Bastianini

Along with Aleix Espargaró, he was the great revelation of the championship, he had three wins, the same as Quartararo and Bagnaia, he was the champion of the championship after Qatar, Indonesia and Austin and all this with Ducati version 2022. But since exhausted his last victory at Le Mans ‘The Beast’, he barely added eleven points in the next four races and that lowered his grade

7 Johan Zarco

It looks like he’s not here and by an unexpected chance he’ll be on the podium this year – he has four – and he’s the best Ducati rider in the standings, 58 points behind his compatriot Quartararo. MotoGP success continues to challenge him at 32 years old and his two seconds in 2022 have been the best of the rest after the unrivaled ‘El Diablo’. But after much perseverance, eventually, he will succeed.

6 Pecco Bagnaia

Despite his four pole position and three wins, similar to the lead, this was not the year expected of the last MotoGP runner-up due to his consecutive career mistakes -four zeros- making it impossible to ‘notice -attention. in his proceedings. Quartararo’s zero at Assen means the 91 points he scored last week have been reduced to 66, but without consistency he will have a hard time rejoining.

6 George Martin

When he is in full physical condition, no one doubts his quality and his explosion is less, which prompted him to sign two pole positions this year, the same positions he has on the podium. But carpal tunnel syndrome in his right hand that dragged him up to his surgery on June 6 conditioned him in the first half of the campaign. The position at Ducati Factory with Bastianini has been played and the return from vacation will be interesting.

6 Maverick Vinales

It took him 16 GGGPPs in Aprilia to land on the podium again, but in Assen, one of his favorite circuits, he did it with solvency and came back from 11th place on the grid. For that third – damage to the rear holeshot in Germany spoils another good result – and his perseverance in adapting to his ride on a V4 engine at 90º compared to the ‘4 in line’ of his Suzuki and Yamaha stage , it is worth increasing the grade.

6 Brad Binder

The first year 100% without concessions for KTM, and largely after internal restructuring, proves difficult for them, but another year South Africa is using its consistency to get a single podium, the second in Qatar, to be sixth. in classification. His teammate Oliveira was able to win, but was more behind. Ever since he came to MotoGP, he has had a win every year. A Sunday man like him should not mess up his record of service.

5 Alex Rins

Even Portimao had an impeccable year. The victory did not come, but he accumulated a lot of points thanks to his consistency and even entered Jerez as co-leader with Quartararo who surpassed him for the victory in Portimao. And it was to take advantage of the news of Suzuki’s farewell to the World Championship and he crashed, with zeros and crashes, some rival courtesy like in Montmeló where he was injured and lost a GP. You don’t deserve the suspense

4 Joan Mir

Although he is ahead of his teammate Rins by two points on the table, more should be needed for the 2020 MotoGP champion to be relatively consistent, his strong point, the first four races, without reaching that podium – where he was closest was in Termas and then his partner Rins-. And where the news of Suzuki’s panic jumped, he just never met again.

3 Pol Espargaro

He started the year on a promising podium on a circuit that was never one of Honda’s most favorable, the Losail in Qatar, but since then, like other Honda riders, he has entered a spin, he hasn’t. on the front, the renewed Honda turned out to be a failure and only the damage to the Sachsenring was missing. Big things change or Honda will close its stage without getting its first win in MotoGP. Only the record climbs the podium.

0 Franco Morbidelli

It’s always a promise that your teammate with the same bike as you will lead the world championship and win races because the comparison is hateful. In theory, when his knee injury was overcome, a year had passed and he was still in free fall. He is 19th in the table, 147 points behind the leader and has a winning bike. Behind him are just four of the five rookies and Dovizioso, another worthy of zero, but no one is expected of him.

SC Marc Marquez

He only ran six of eleven races and he did so with a very serious injury to his right arm because the humerus bone rotated more than 30 degrees along its axis and he had to miss his home GP in Catalonia to do so. . to correct this on the operating table, it had previously been a new stage of diplopia that had unleashed him. Marc Márquez is not yet at this time because he is also incapable and we will have to wait for his return in full condition to hold the King accountable.