Bagnaia wins the day Espargaró becomes a hero


“I ruined my friend’s career Alex (Espargaro) and that hurts me a lot, because he was there to win. I was wrong, for the first time this year and I feel it in my soul & rdquor ;. The French Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha)world champion of MotoGP and leader of World-2022has been decisive today, in Asse, Netherlandsin view of 104,244 spectatorsso that the Italian ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati)not only won from start to finish, but also regained his spirits to try the miracle of winning the title, because now he is 66 points behind ‘Diablo’, who fell twice (in the first he threw Aleix), and who he recognized that he had ruined his friend’s career.

Bagnaia, restless

Assen, the ‘cathedral’, never disappointed. It is true that today’s race was won by Bagnaia showing that, apart from the mistakes made up to the Netherlands, he is one of the strongest of all. “It seemed like an endless race to me, on the third lap I already believed that he would not end up winning. But, yes, this victory, before going on vacation, was very necessary to believe again and not even the appearance of the first drops made me hesitate. I insist, we are still on time & rdquor ;.

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That’s what happened ahead. Bagnaia dominated and cut 25 points from Quartararo. More, he went up to the podium accompanied by his compatriot and friend, Marco Bezzecchione of the sons of valentino rossi, which caused euphoria in the yellow fans who were in the stands. And, more, much more, a resurrected (he had already been announcing it in the last races), Maverick Vinales (Aprilia) has returned to the podium, showing that, in effect, the announcements he had been making that “I am coming back and Aprilia believes in me” it was totally true. Viñales has returned and does not intend to leave “because I already have a fantastic Aprilia & rdquor ;.

The best Alex

But, the great, the tremendous, the immense, the unheard of was starred, as until now in this World Cup, by the Catalan veteran Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia), who was there to win the race, yes, yes, to even defeat Bagnaia (all his times were the best, always close to the Assen record), but he was attacked by his friend Quartararo and, on lap six, he crossed the finish line in 15th place in the race.

From that moment on, the oldest of the Espargarós was recovering ground ‘a la Marc Marquez’rolling in better times than those leading the way, than those made by Bagnaia, and, in the end, in the penultimate curve to access the finish line in Assen, the place where the most incredible overtaking in the history of motorcycling have taken place, Aleix put , like a knife in butter, his bike inside the curve between the KTM of Brad Binder and the Ducati of Jack Millerachieving, tremendously, fourth place and going on vacation just 21 points behind his friend Quartararo.

Alex, very proud

“It was the dream, to go on vacation less than a victory (25 points) from Fabio and we go to the beach being only 21 points away & rdquor ;, said Aleix Espargaró, who recognized Quartararo, when the ‘Devil’ went to ask him sorry to his ‘boxe’ that “I didn’t see you get into the corner because, if I had seen you, I would have been able to lift the bike, cut and maybe we wouldn’t have fallen”. “No way, no way, Aleix, it was totally my fault, forgive me, because I ruined your race. You were there to win & rdquor ;, Fabio insisted.

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Aleix Espargaró was “totally convinced that he was going to win and easily, since, in the second lap, before Fabio took him off the track, he knew that he had the best bike and that he was ready to win, I felt it was mine, the I felt unique and my driving flowed without problems and I was very fast, a lot”. Aleix commented that “I thought I would win and Fabio would finish second, which would only allow me to subtract 5 points from him and, well, now it turns out that with Fabio’s abandonment and my fourth place, I have taken 13 points from him. But, yes, I was to win but, well, we’re going on vacation with less than a victory (25 points), because we’re already 21”.

MotoGP World Championship: 1. Fabio Quartararo (France), 172 points; 2. Aleix Espargaró (Spain), 151; 3. Johann Zarco (France), 114; 4. ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Italy), 106 and 5. Enea Bastianini (Italy), 105.


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