Bagnaia, Quartararo, Espargaro. The final order confirms the starting order, but that of Jerez it’s anything but a boring race. If anything, a day of confirmations. For Bagnaia who, after the pole with track record, starts first, arrives first and in doing so raises a season in which he seemed already doomed. For Quartararo which always remains within half a second – without ever being able to attack – for all 25 giri of the Spanish Grand Prix and which above all confirms itself at the top of the drivers’ standings. And for Aleix Espargaro which carries theAprilia in the empyrean of the world championship (third podium with a victory this year and goodbye to the incentives due to “minor” manufacturers), after a bad start (also a confirmation) that forces him to chase Miller e Marquez up to two laps from the end.
After all, his two contenders for the third step of the podium find some confirmation, welcome or not. Positive that ofeight times world champion from the Honda: fight to the end after a bad Saturday (lit only by the wake of Miller himself), save the bike and the race is not well known how after losing grip in the braking that gives Espargaro the podium, puts Miller on braking crosswise of his and in the end he celebrates he had not even won the race, throwing the gloves – with the left hand, the evil ones will notice – to the fans crowded on the hills. However, the signal is clear: Marquez is still there with the desire to fight and become a cannibal again.
The confirmations on the Australian front of the house are less welcome Ducati: Miller, who could move to Pramac or even Honda next year, finds himself in third position at the start but struggles with tire degradation that prevents him from keeping up with the best. Until a few laps from the end, his detached acrobatics save him. But he can’t do more and finds himself fifth on the finish line in front of the disappointing one Suzuki from Mirnever playing while his fellow-rival Alex Rins goes long, finds himself in the queue and also slips into the race for the world championship.
And the second Aprilia of Maverick Vinales: the Spaniard has everything to compete at the top: single lap (his quality) and pace (quality of the bike). But he too, after having smoothed out the qualifications, crashes at the start and finds himself once again in the rear of the group. He will finish 14°, but with the times and the regret of those who could fight with the former. Instead, the other great outsider of the world championship limits the damage: Enea Bastianini. The Ducati rider of Gresini team, the only one to have won two races so far this season, alternates excellent days with bad ones: today it ends like this, eighth place in comeback. After all, it is much worse for the cousins of the Pramac where impetuousness does not reward: Martin e Zarco they both go out a few laps apart and mark zero on the scoresheet.
The order of arrival:
1. Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati)
2. Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha)
3. Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia)
4.Marc Marquez (Honda)
5. Jack Miller (Ducati)
6. Joan Mir (Suzuki)
7. Takaaki Nakagami (Honda)
8. Enea Bastianini (Ducati)
9. Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati)
10. Brad Binder (KTM)
11. Pol Espargaro (Honda)
12. Miguel Oliveira (KTM)
13. Alex Marquez (Honda)
14. Maverick Vinales (Aprilia)
15. Franco Morbidelli (Yamaha)
16. Luca Marini (Ducati)
17. Andrea Dovizioso (Yamaha)
18. Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati)
19. Alex Rins (Suzuki)
20. Remy Gardner (KTM)
21. Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia)
22. Jorge Martin (Ducati)
The championship standings:
1- Fabio Quartararo – 89 points
2- Aleix Espargaro – 82 points
3- Enea Bastianini – 69 points
4- Alex Rins – 69 points
5- Francesco Bagnaia – 56 points
6- Joan Mir – 56 points
7- Johan Zarco – 51 points
8- Brad Binder – 48 points
9- Marc Marquez – 44 points
10- Miguel Oliveira – 43 points
