The Ducati rider has accumulated three consecutive victories in MotoGP and wants a fourth in Misano. Quartararo looks to manage his lead
Anyone would say a MotoGP World Championship is resolved with seven races remaining when the leader takes 46 points from the third, but it is that Peco Bagnaia comes like a missile. The Ducati rider hopes to be able to cut more points from Fabio Quartararo -current MotoGP champion and leader of the World Championship- after chaining three consecutive wins.
The Italian has a peaceful weekend at Gran San Marino with all of Italy supporting him in Misano. Bagnaia has won or crashed in the last eight races, being by far the most Awesome of the entire grid for its performance.
This situation has placed him as the second candidate for victory in the MotoGP World Championship at quota [3.50] becoming a real headache for the Yamaha team, which He does not find the balance with Quartararo that Ducati does have with Bagnaia.
In any case, Quartararo’s World Cup triumph does not seem to be in danger [1.40]although curves can come if Bagnaia’s fourth consecutive victory falls on a circuit that is 100% Ducati as it is 100 kilometers from its factory.
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Misano has long straights that benefit from the power of Ducati, while Yamaha prefers more twisty layouts. The third in discord, second in the World Cup, is a Aleix Espargaró who has seen how his Aprilia has gone less in recent races falling his share of victory in the World Cup to [6.00].
The Catalan driver is 32 points behind Quartararo, but seems close to victory after having achieved the first and only victory of his career this season in Argentina. Espargaró has gone five races without being on the podium and in the last two he has garnered an eighth and ninth place that have sown doubt.
That’s why everyone looks at Bagnaia as the only option to win this World Cup, despite the distance with Quartararo. Good old Fabio was the most consistent in the central part of the World Cup, accumulating two consecutive wins. Now the nuts seem to have been tightened.
Finally we have to mention a Marc Márquez that he will not race, but that he will be present in the pits during the weekend. The eight-time world champion, who rode in Aragon on a Honda, is coming to test next season’s bike in the tests that will take place in Misano just after the race.