Second place for Àlex Rins in the COTA circuit. The Catalan thus chains two consecutive podiums and is placed second of the points table, only surpassed by the winner, Enea Bastianini. Rins came back from seventh place to infiltrate the red bullets and finish him off with a house-brand overtake on Jack Miller when there were only a couple of corners left to catch the checkered flag.
Suzuki’s #42 gave the Japanese brand its 500th podium finish with a sensational performance in Austin. “I want to dedicate this P2 to everyone, especially the Ukrainian people and all those people who have been suffering from the pandemic for a long time,” Rins said, very sincere and humble when asked by DAZN.
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The great race of the driver from Barcelona culminated with the achievement of the second position, which could not be harvested until the last lap. “In the second sector I managed to overtake him but he returned it to me and already in T4 I have done it againRins acknowledged. “We are strong and we are showing it. The bike is going well and the team is united”he pointed out, aware of the good moment in form that he is going through at this start of 2022.
As regards the other two men on the podium, Bastianini pointed out that “Jack was pulling very hard at the beginning of the race”, but that his sensations on the Borgo Panigale mount were “improving as the laps went by”. Third was the Australian Miller, happy for the podium “Although we would also have deserved that second position”.