‘Pecco’ Bagnaia, large door or infirmary

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The Italian Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) came to the circuit of Spielbergscene of Austrian MotoGP Grand Prixwith the saying of the great bullfighters under his arm “big door or infirmary”, because in his last seven performances he won or rolled on the floor.

Although it is true that The Austrian circuit, despite having a new climbing variant after the straight finish, is one of the most suitable for the technical conditions of the mighty Desmosedici, who won as many as five times at this track. This event, along with that fact Bagnaia won two in a row, at Assen before the summer break, and at Silverstoneafter returning from it, make him one of the favorites for the alpine event, although it is clear that he will not be alone, because the rivalry for leadership between the French Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) and Catalan Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia RS-GP) most of the attention of the championship.

Quartararo, on a top circuit

It will be very interesting to see the performance of Quartararo’s Yamaha on a circuit of power and speed like Spielberg’s Red Bull, because the Frenchman will need all the resources of the factory engineers Iwata to maintain its advantage in a championship that could be very “tight” in the next calls.

In addition, the Frenchman seems to be the only “standard bearer” for Yamaha, since neither the Italian Franco Morbidelli, in his own team, nor the South African Darryn Binder and the Italian Andrea Dovizioso -who announced that he will retire from the competition after the Great San Marino Prize- in the satellite team, they are at the level expected of them. His direct rival, at the moment, the Spaniard Aleix Espargaró, arrived at the “Red Bull Ring” with doubts about his recovery from the small fracture he sustained in the calcaneus during practice at Silverstone, which would allow him or not to perform at the highest level. , although it is true that MotoGP riders seem to be made “of a different paste” and their recovery periods are often shorter than any other human.

Just in case, to “give him a hand”, he is approaching the performance and benefits of his teammate Maverick Viñales, who in Austria has a “pending debt”, because in this scenario the breakup occurred last year at Yamaha and here he wants to “find himself” with a victory, after two consecutive podiums in the manufacturer from Noale, as he finished third in Assen and second in Silverstone.

At Ducati, including ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia they can have their “representation quota” pilots like the Italian Enea Bastianini and the Spanish Jorge Martín, winner last year, who will play for the second place in the official team for 2023, in addition to the Frenchman Johann Zarco or the Australian Jack Miller, who will definitely try to leave the official Borgo Panigale team at the front. door , with success under his arm.

Pol Espargaró and his imminent announcement

The rest of the “natural” protagonists in the Austrian event must be the KTM riders, given their local status, even the South African Brad Binder or the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira seem to be not at their best technically , although everything can change on a track that they all know very well and where their main goal should be to “reconnect” with the “orange” fans, who will officially know the return of one of great architects of the evolution of the RC 16, the Spaniard Pol Espargaro.

After his “gray and bland” time with the Repsol Honda team, Spielberg will announce his return to KTM, albeit to its satellite team Tech3, owned by Pol Espargaró, while waiting to know who will succeed his place in the Spanish energy team, with Everything points for the Spanish and MotoGP world champion also in 2020, Joan Mir. Both Mir and Alex Rins, who have already announced their signing for Italian Lucio Cecchinello’s Honda team, face their last season with Suzuki and in 2023 the big challenge of getting a radical technical turn in their sporting futures, as they both move from the GSX RR’s in-line four-cylinder engine to Honda’s four-cylinder “V”.

Neither of them is in any doubt about the change they will face and that will be their biggest challenge, but both will be looking to say goodbye to the season with the success that, so far, has eluded them. The situation is worse with Honda and its official Repsol team, because the absence of Marc Márquez, who will probably visit the “Red Bull Ring”, even without riding his bike, leaves the powerful Japanese manufacturer in very precarious conditions, reaping the sport’s worst season since he contested the motorcycling world championship. Neither Pol Espargaró, nor the Japanese Takaaki Nakagami nor the Spaniard Alex Márquez, in addition to the German tester Stefan Bradl, seem to be in a position to even fight for the podium, which has long caused all the alarm in ” Japanese. giant”, which will have to star in a real revolution in 2023 if it wants to regain its “share” of fame in the queen category of the World Cup. EFE JLL/jap

Source: La Verdad

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