The Piedmontese from Ducati won without emulating anyone and entered the number one club. The comeback when all seemed lost is the sign of the stuff of the great
Masismo Falcioni
06 November
– valencia (spain)
I closed my eyes under my helmet for a moment, when I reopen them in front of the world, here is a tear that falls. Pecco Bagnaia made it. A ninth place in the last decisive round in Valencia without taking any risks. He is the new MotoGP number one. The best rider on the best bike. This year it is like that. And there is the emotion of the driver and the team when you enter history, towards the legend. Full triumph for the Rossa, first with Bagnaia and third with Bastianini. Italy, the homeland of motorcycling with its great riders and great motorcycles, resumes its place at the top of the peaks. It’s all true. It is already the Red Festival. And on clenched fists for the great challenge won and down tears of joy.
goodbye grimaces
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So goodbye grimaces of the first rounds of a world championship that started wrong and that, until the sixth round in Jerez, did not seem to want to straighten up. Then Bagnaia, as the champions know how to do in the negative phases, found himself and his confidence in the 2022 racing car finally at the top: seven triumphs and, now, the doubts of the time in the pits and outside and the crawls on the asphalt that good count little they never do to the runner and whoever works for him. Thing of the past. Closed game. Championship won. Pecco and the Red on the altars.
the sinful smile
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The world title in the premier class of motorcycling returns to Borgo Panigale with strength. 15 years have passed since the iris with Casey Stoner, immense in handle, as much as moody. Half a century has passed since 1972, the last title of an Italian pair in the highest category: Giacomo Agostini on MV Agusta. This is how you enter the “number one” club. Now to push Bagnaia there is also a piece of the people of the “46” who came out of the lap at the end of 2021 with Valentino’s farewell to racing and returned to Valencia to rekindle dormant dreams thanks to this 25-year-old boy who goes strong and knows win without emulating anyone. Of the “Doctor” of Tavullia, the best interpreter of show-business motorcycling, Pecco has the same desire to win without the poisonous joke or the mocking look: on the contrary, he has the face of a good guy who seems to embody a perennial disturbance, the hinted smile as if he wanted to apologize to his defeated opponents.
breakthrough
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Bagnaia brings Piedmont into the history of the World Championship. The centaur from Chivasso launched into the cheek of motorcycling right in the Tavullia Ranch and transplanted to Pesaro, one of the symbolic cities of racing, wins the title and convinces with competitive determination and tactical intelligence. Pecco cannot forget his sporting training, but today he is able to express the caliber of the leader without the shadow of mentors who risk becoming bulky ballast. What he has done this year, in terms of results, driving style and way of racing, already characterizes him on and off the track. It only takes time, now, to become a character, also to enter the heart of the housewife of Voghera. Motorcycling is not a sport for the “few but good”. Without people in the stands of the circuits and in front of the TV the roaring Circus goes out, the shop closes. We need great champions and great challenges. And the story is also needed to transform the champion into a myth and the challenge into an epic piece. It is the results and the way to obtain them that makes a rider a champion and a champion a legend. For now Pecco Bagnaia is “only” world champion. He needs the qualitative leap in telling and telling himself, in the way of being that makes him unique, leaving clichés to press releases, to go from champion to myth: reinventing himself while remaining inside himself. There will then be time for statistical juxtapositions, which are always unpleasant.
man to beat
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Now, the roaring world of a MotoGP that dazzles but does not forgive those who delude themselves in the easy replay, is the world of Pecco. It is up to him to give us some more gas and proceed like this, so that this dream is not just a meteor. The days of long faces with the zeros of the first round of the season in Qatar and the other four “zeros” in Le Mans, Catalonia, Sachsenring, Motegi, remain as mistakes not to be repeated, canceled by the seven triumphs of Jerez, Mugello, Assen, Silverstone, Austria, Misano, Sepang. However, it was Pecco’s ability to know how to react, getting up every time, overturning a situation that was given up for lost. This is one of the revealing indices of the number one fabric. Is it the dawn of a new motorcycling? MotoGP 2023 is already here. With Bagnaia (for the encore) and Bastianini (who already smolders the sacred fire of revenge), both on the official Reds, ready to light the fuses and make you dream. The fight is open, there is no shortage of great challengers starting with Quartararo and Marquez, both with poisoned teeth. There is only one man to beat. Vamos, Pecco! ‘Nduma!
06 November 2022 (change 06 November 2022 | 16:23)
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