The forecasters were not wrong. The time sheets of the two days of training on the beautiful and sunny weekend at the Jerez circuit did not lie. Indeed, both the French Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha), current world champion and recent winner in Portimao (Portugal), and the Italian runner-up ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati), who had a horrible start this season, had better pace than everyone else and they left, they escaped, in the presence of 58,132 passionate spectators, who began to fill the stands at six in the morning.
Bagnaia withstood the final harassment of the ‘Devil’ and won his first GP of 2022, Aleix Espargaró achieves his second consecutive podium with Aprilia, never seen before! and Marc Márquez (Honda) proves to be in contention with a prodigious fourth place.
The third place on the podium, which in a championship that is so disputed, so uncertain (five winners in six races), has a lot of value (16 precious points), was always in the hands of Jack Miller (Ducati), Marc Márquez (Honda), who made a good start, and the veteran Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia), in the year of his resurrection, in the season in which he wants and manages to fight for the title, especially after getting his first victory in the World Championship and the first for Aprilia in MotoGP, in Argentina.
twisted path
On a very twisty, twisted, complicated track, with only one straight, which is not one of the longest in the World Championship either, the chances of overtaking are minimal, scarce, hardly exist and that is why both in the fight for victory and silver between There was hardly any interest in Bagnaia and Quartararo, while in the fight for bronze, Miller, Márquez and the oldest of the Espargaró had to wait until the last few laps to be encouraged to try. It was, yes, a great prize in a row, from the first to the last, always turning, all of them, in 1.38 medium and high.
And, yes, indeed, while the first two places remained the same from the first corner, Bagnaia-Quartararo, the fight for bronze was precious, with two brutal overtaking, from Márquez to Miller and from Aleix to Márquez, who again starred a ‘save’, just at the moment of losing the podium, by lifting the bike with his left elbow when it was already on the ground!
What this sixth race of the year makes clear is that, while Marc Márquez works like crazy to turn his Honda RC213V into a winning bike and Aleix Espargaró continues to dream of his heavenly year (he is already second, 7 points behind Quartararo), the two The great candidates for the title, whatever the World Championship general says, are Quartararo and Bagnaia, champion and runner-up, who today have left the rest more than 7 seconds behind, when there are still 15 grand prizes to go, 375 points at stake.
MotoGP World Championship: 1. Fabio Quartararo (France), 89 points; 2. Aleix Espargaró (Spain), 82; 3. Enea Bastianini (Italy), 69; 4. Àlex Rins (Spain), 69 and 9. Marc Márquez (Spain), 44.
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