To say that in Texas, of which the star is the symbol, a star was born with this convincing victory of Enea Bastianini, would be an insult to the man who was already Moto2 World Champion and who triumphed in the first Grand Prix of the year in Qatar. However, in the celestial vault of Ducati, the protégé of a Carlo Pernat, who had just crushed the Prosecco in Moto2 with his other rider Toni Arbolino, put himself into orbit with his own force of attraction for a crown that the We no longer attribute Bagnaia to Pecco, lost in the sidereal void. The rest will be exciting, and all the more so since Alex Rins has reconciled himself with gravity, and Marc Marquez remains an authentic meteor. As for Fabio Quartararo, he's real sunshine.
This fourth round of the championship in no way took away from the intensity of the previous three. This Grand Prix of the Americas Austin offered a truly beautiful spectacle, once again defying the predictions. Yet the Ducati were there, and Jack Miller did what was necessary to keep his factory driver stripes by leaving nothing to Jorge Martin from the start before leading the event up to 5 laps from the goal. For this, he had to draw on his reserves and, at the end of the game, he no longer had any ammunition to oppose to a bastianini slashing boss, biding his time to deliver the blow and flee to glory.
The fact remains that the Australian left his teammate behind bagnaia, which is ultimately barely better, while the Ducati Pramac have lost their footing, stopping their regression to the gates of the top 10. Conversely, the Suzuki were solid, with especially a alex rins, who triumphed on this Texan track in 2019. The GSX-RR official has the wind in his sails, presents himself as a real challenger this year and will not fail to surpass his teammate Joan mir, certainly still well placed, but behind.
The spectacle was also behind these men at Austin with first this devil of Marc Marquez, last at the first turn after a failed takeoff. The official Honda still came back to sixth, completing a fantastic ride of which only he has the secret. In the chasing pack, they all gave in to him, except one who did not give up easily. It is fabio quartararo who wonders how he manages to maintain his Yamaha at this level compared with its brand companions far from the mark. But the Frenchman superbly defended his honor as reigning World Champion, facing the benchmark on this track, and perhaps in a few months his teammate...
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In the general classification, we therefore have Enea Bastianini who regains the lead with 61 points against 56 alex rins and for 50 Aleix Espargaro. Joan mir follows with 15 units delay, and fabio quartararo hangs in the top 5 with a liability of 17 points. The big loser from Argentina is Brad Binder who goes from runner-up to sixth with 19 lengths behind. Jack Miller is the first Ducati factory rider with 31 points, identical capital to that of Johann zarco. Miguel Oliveira et George Martin closes the top 10 from which is excluded Pecco Bagnaia 12th with 38 points behind his compatriot who is riding with his GP21 from last year…
Pol Espargaro is first Honda with its eleventh place and its 23 points scored. Marc Marquez is thirteenth with 21 units, or 41 behind the leader, in the circumstances that we know. The next meeting will mark the big return to Europe, via the Portuguese Grand Prix on 24th April. The KTMs and Aprilias will be keen to resume their progress there. So it will be exciting again…
MotoGP Austin Championship: standings
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