After the eighth place in Austria and yet another outburst in the interviews, the Italian pilot needs an important result to leave the difficult period behind. But will it be enough?
Also in the Austria GP of MotoGP, with the sixth consecutive victory and the twelfth in a row with the sprints, the happiest is Marc Marquez and the most disappointed and disheartened is Pecco Bagnaia. After the 13th round of the season, Marquez is on the run in the standings with 418 points, 142 points more than the second Alex Marquez and 197 more on Bagnaia who arranges, a third place now in the sights of Marco Bezzecchi. We are talking about an average of almost 11 more GP points, for Marc, towards the best of his most direct opponents in the standings. A rolling rollery as an absolute matrix, unsustainable for opponents.
The two sides of the medal
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Probably, for Marquez, it will not be possible to close the game Arithmetic in Misano, but the possibility that this can occur between Japan and Indonesia is more than realistic. Basically, against the background of yet another masterpiece painted by Marc, there was a lively race that offered interesting technical and competitive ideas. However, the doubt arises to understand how much Marc is pushing strong and how instead he is simply managing the situation pending the perfect moment for the extension. In the meantime, less and less doubts, instead, they hover around the conclaimed crisis of a Bagnaia pecco whose situation becomes more and more complex, intricate and indecipherable, primarily for himself. Pecco failed to the nth degree of appeal.
The Bagnaia race
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Taken very well from his starting box, he really never managed to be aggressive. A defense race, because with this GP25, the Turin driver with Sardinian and Pesaro origins by adoption by living in the city of Rossini since 2015, he just can’t find feeling and bite. And so, after the overtaking suffered by Marc Marquez already on the second lap, Bagnaia ended up in the jaws of all the other pursuers, gradually losing rhythm and duels. The definitive surrender comes after a rather aggressive overtaking of Pedro Acosta who forces him to “long” and decidedly pull the rows on the boat, almost to wait the end of the race sadly. Low gaze, few words and tone of discharged voice, never so polemical, angrily with Borgo Panigale: “I hope they give me explanations”. And to the question of the Spanish TV Dazn: “Are you losing patience?” Pecco replies, dry: “A little yes”. Here we are. From the controversy to the outbursts that become accusations. With Gigi Dall’Igna that, with Marquez dominator of the present and Aldeguer considered the future of Ducati, replica dry in Pecco: “A set of things makes an athlete cannot express himself: there is a part of the mental side”.
The relationship with Ducati
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The synthesis comes in the after race, with the shutters open in the Ducati box for the feast of Marc Marquez and the other closed gate where the long muses make the air that pulls more than the words. Bagnaia’s relationship with the Rossa of Borgo Panigale, without a turning point, risks consuming definitively to the point of no return. Decisive, the next races. As for the rest of the race, after the third place of Bezzecchi and before the eighth of Bagnaia, Acosta, Bastianini, Mir and Binder are classified. Ducati continues to dominate with Marc Marquez but shows great competitiveness with other pilots, Aldeguer and Alex Marquez above all. Both Aprilia (although for now only with Bezzecchi) and KTM with Acosta, Bastianini and Binder are growing. In trouble the Japanese, especially Yamaha. Ultimately, a good race, both on a technical and competitive level.
Martin
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Finally, good news came from the medical center, with the world champion MotoGP Jorge Martin substantially unharmed even if a little sore, after the right leg had remained dangerously attached to the motorcycle in the sliding where she stumbled in the second half of the race. A difficult weekend for the world champion, who will try in the next race on the new Balaton Park track in Hungary, to resume the confidence recovery path with the races and with his promising Aprilia RS-GP25. In conclusion. World Cup 2025 so far dominated by Marc Marquez who already looks forward, at 2026, to reach the summit of the 10 world titles, overcoming, beyond Carlo Ubbiali and Mike Hailwood, the “enemy” Valentino Rossi. But tomorrow is already here, with jewels such as Aldeguer, Bezzecchi, Acosta to open a new story of quality motorcycling, more and more show-business.
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