It was so clear that anything had to be considered a surprise. Sorry, a surprise. He Italian ‘Pecco’ Bagnaiawho rides, by far, the best bike on the grid, not just the best Ducati ‘Desmosedici’because his motorcycle has things, novelties, advantages, that not even his teammate’s has, Enea Bastianiniwas the clear favorite to repeat the title.
And not only for that, but also because the Aprilias and the KTM They are very good, a lot, they have improved, but they are still not the Ducati. And let alone, despite his good behavior, finally! in it Indian Grand Prixplayed in Buddh this weekend, yamaha and Slingwho are not, by any means, able to aspire to even the podium in each race.’
Seven more GPs
So the appearance, which is not such as he has been fighting for it all year, of the Jorge Martín from Madrid (Ducati) in the championship pools has been quite a mess in the final stretch of the MotoGP World Championship, which this weekend races at the Japanese Motegi circuit. They still remain seven great prizesthere are still 14 racesthere are still 259 points and, after the champion’s mistake yesterday, in India, when he crashed, alone, when he was second behind his friend Marco BezzecchiMartín, who ended up dehydrated but in second position, is just 13 points behind the leader.
Bagnaia He has won four sprint races: Portugal, the USA, Italy and Austria. And he has achieved big victories, on Sundays, in Portimao, Jerez, Mugello, Assen and Spielberg. Martinator He also has four triumphant Saturdays (France, Germany, San Marino and India) and two huge victories at Sachsenring and Misano. But the strongest thing is that, in the last three grand prix (Barcelona, Misano and Buddh), Martín has subtracted 39 points from Bagnaia.
“I have failed, yes, I made a mistake, I fell, but my team still cannot solve the problem we have in braking”
MotoGP world champion with Ducati
‘Pecco’, who caused a significant downturn and despair within his ‘box’ when he went to the ground, pressed by Martín, when he had not yet reached the halfway point of yesterday’s race, acknowledged upon arriving at his workshop that He had made a tremendous mistake, but he added: “I have been telling the team that we have problems with our bike and they have not been able to detect them, much less solve them. We have braking problems. “I’ve already said it.”
Martín, for his part, acknowledged that the secret of having closed the gap with Bagnaia “is not to pay too much attention to the classification and try to compete in each grand prix as if it were the last.” The Madrid pilot, who had to be treated by the Dr. Ángel Charte In the corralito, before going up to the podium, suffering from brutal dehydration, he confessed shortly after that he had already fully recovered.
“I don’t know what happened. “It is not a problem of my preparation or nutrition, because I follow my diet to the letter,” she commented when she got off the podium. “Simply, as cyclists often say, the ‘mallet man’ and he hit me very hard, he hit me hard, well, a tremendous blow, but it’s already forgotten.”
“Dehydration has not been a problem of nutrition or my preparation. It has happened and that’s it. We have overcome it. We are going to Japan to continue fighting”
Pramac Ducati team rider
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Martín said that, in the last lap, when he was fighting, almost colliding his fairings with Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha) to maintain second place (“who knows, maybe those four points give us the title in the end”), he did not find out nothing, I hardly remember it. “I really don’t know what I did and how I did it. Between the fact that the zipper of my jumpsuit came down and I had to pull it up and I became dehydrated, I can’t remember either overtaking him or my bestiality to surpass him again.
The leader of the Pramac Ducati satellite team acknowledged that the fall of ‘Pecco’ “has allowed me, not only to save the furniture, but to get closer to him and, yes, just as I ended up, almost on the ground, I can come across a “I sing in my teeth.”