The World Cup leader, Francesco Bagnai, hits the World Cup in Jorge Martín’s fiasco at the Qatar GP
The Italian MotoGP rider Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati) finished second on Qatar Grand Prixpenultimate event of the World Cup, for bring your title defense closer with 21 points difference about the second classified, the Spanish Jorge Martin (Ducati), what tenth.
The Madrid native saw the euphoria diminished with the current world champion, a ‘Pecco’ who won first position at the start, while Martín was relegated to eighth place. The green light caused the Spanish driver to skid, who in addition to being relegated saw that he had no rhythm to overcome.
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Bagnaia gave the blow to the World Cup despite the fact that victory eluded him, surpassed by Fabio Di Giannantonio (Gresini Racing) four laps from the end. The Italian, without a bike for next year, won his first MotoGP race, beating Bagnaia who gambled shortly after trying to regain the lead.
He World Cup leader over-braked and came close to causing an accident, but he saved his compatriot and was lucky not to lose more positions. All in all, Bagnaia’s second is half a sentence since Martín could only be tenth. The Spaniard, who won the Sprint on Saturday, suffered the setback at the start and, without a good feeling with the tire, was losing positions.
After being seven points off the lead on Saturday, Martín finishes the penultimate GP with 21 points, with which he will seek the feat in the Valencia Grand Prix, between the Sprint and Sunday’s race at the Ricardo Tormo with which the season will end next week. The podium in Losail was completed by Luca Marini (Ducati).
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Third place was very close, with a large group of drivers in a few tenths where Maverick Viñales (Aprilia) and Álex Márquez (Ducati) had to settle for fourth and sixth position. Meanwhile, Repsol Honda riders Marc Márquez and Joan Mir finished in the points, eleventh and fourteenth.