Arriving in Aragon, Fabio Quartararo regretted that he had to fight not one but eight Ducatis to win this championship. The race delivered by this fifteenth round of the season will have demonstrated that this is not the case. Enea Bastianini thus repeated Misano's move at Pecco Bagnaia, but this time made it happen, thus depriving his compatriot and colleague of note as a future teammate of five points which will perhaps count on the evening of the last game in Valencia. Aleix Espargaró has also relaunched but also, and perhaps above all, Enea Bastianini can still hope to be 48 lengths from the lead in the general classification...
The pilot Gresini recognizes that overcoming this handicap in five races would be a challenge, but he is not saying that he will not try it, even if he has never raced in MotoGP on the tracks which are now available overseas. But given what he offered in Aragon, Pecco Bagnaia understood that we will have to play games with this future 2023 teammate. A variable which is not to the disadvantage of Fabio Quartararo who, however, dropped out for the second time this season. He said it, he no longer has any jokers up his sleeve against not only the Italian with the red Ducati, but also ahead of Aleix Espargaró on the Aprilia.
Another championship begins
The Spaniard recovered in Alcañiz, even if he was hoping to make a hold-up instead. But he is on the podium, with the big points that go with it, at the end of a battle with the surprise guest Brad Binder who returns to the race for a final top 5. By the way, Jack Miller, who could only follow him throughout the ordeal, had plenty of time to guess what awaits him next year as the South African's teammate at KTM...
Let's finish with the points for eighth place brought back by our Johann zarco and the mention that Ducati is already the World Champion manufacturer of this vintage and for the third year in a row…
MotoGP Aragon Championship: ranking (15/20)
Credit classification motogp.com
