The current runner-up in the category returned from vacation with an incontestable victory in Great Britain and cutting quite a distance with Quartararo and Espargaró
Peco Bagnaia is not giving up. Italian is like one of those catchy Eros Ramazzotti songs that just when you think you’ve got it out of your head, it comes back to haunt you for weeks. The one from Ducati did a carron
The 25 points that he added after the victory allow him Sound albeit with reservations. For this, he needs both Fabio Quartararo and Aleix Espargaró to have such fateful days after finishing in eighth and ninth place, respectively.
Bagnaia has moved 49 points behind the leader of the general after having the most eventful year of his career having suffered up to four retirements in 12 races. He still has 10 appointments left to put things in his place, but there is one fact that should fill you with hope.
In the last seven races his result has been the victory in the same one or the abandonment victory being more common than retreat. The Italian, in this way, thus forgets his incident in Ibiza last month when he tested positive for alcohol after suffering an accident with his car.
With Peco back at the World Cup, the fight now focuses on seeing if Quartararo and Espargaró recover their best version after failing to meet expectations in this race. Both sinned of an excessive personal marking letting the rest of their rivals leave.
Ducati is very strong
This mutual annulment allowed even to see Maverick Viñales record his best result of the season and with the Aprilia by finishing in second place in the race. Bagnaia did not give the former Yamaha star any chance, who seems to find better sensations than with the Japanese mount.
The test podium was completed by a Jack Miller who with his result confirms the improvement of the Ducati ahead of this second part of the season. Four of the first five mounts were from the Italian brand, while to find the first Honda we must go to the thirteenth position in the table.
The Japanese brand hopes that Marc Márquez reappear in the coming weeks and manage to save the ballot little by little for a team that is a legend in the category. It is as if Ferrari were fighting every weekend not to finish last in Formula 1. Seeing is believing.