The most skeptics don’t say that Francesco Bagnaia he didn’t deserve this World Cup. Why run with i ghosts after a violent accident like that of Barcelona it’s not for everyone. Pecco was stuck with a rider on his own motorbike, Jorge Martínwho, driven on the wings of enthusiasm, from Misano onwards, nibbled away one point after another, so much so that he even ended up ahead in the standings (+7) after the Sprint in Indonesia. What seemed to be a one-sided championship in favor of the Turin native in the first part of the season, from Montmeló forward turned into a gripping epilogue reached the sixth lap of the last race of the year Valencia. On the one hand, a driver from Madrid wearing the team colours Pramacwho drove with the dream of winning the first premier class title, on the other an Italian dressed in rosso passionwhich was supposed to defend the first World Cup conquered in 2022.
Bagnaia, the Barcelona nightmare in his head to be disposed of too quickly
In the end Pecco made it. And even with merit it must be said, because such a feat should be kept engraved in the annals. Try running to 350 hours with the fear of death in the mind, with the recurring nightmare at night which has as its image the front of the Ktm Of Binder. The one that ended up above the knee of the Ducati rider and which, a few centimeters to the left, he could have hit neck and head. Since that high-side in Barcelona at Turn 3, in which he suffered just a few bruises and no fractures, Bagnaia hasn’t had time to react, to rationalize what happened, to retreat within the walls of his home in Pesaro or the Ranch of Rossi, to relax and train with Valentino, Bezzecchi and teammates. No, he immediately had to go back to running the following Sunday with the ghosts of Catalonia, in the home GP where so much went strong: that of Misanowhich has already brought him three career victories (the last in 2022).
The reaction after the Sprint in Indonesia, Pecco never gave up
Since that Sunday in Romagna, Bagnaia has therefore raced against Martin and his mental insecurities. In recent months we have seen an anxious, nervous and at times weak driver. Angry a few times about the performance of one’s own Desmosediciothers for some borderline behavior of his rivals on the track. Insecurities of a sensitive and human pilot, who however he never gave up. Not even in the toughest moment of the season, after the Mandalika Sprint Race, when Martín, 50 points behind Barcelona, found himself surprisingly andvanti, having nibbled before 106 points out of 111 available in the Sprint-race doubles between Misano and Japan. Right in the most difficult moment, Pecco started playing like a tough guy, without giving in to the difficulties and the possibility of throwing a season away. So he took the success in Indonesia (taking advantage of Martín’s fall) and was able to stay ahead in second place in Australia (with the Spaniard fifth), only losing out in Thailand. He has indeed missed the Sprints in Sepang, Losail and Valencia, but he has always finished front in the racewhen points mattered most, until vittoria legendary from Valencia.
Bagnaia in legend: how many records broken in Valencia
Bagnaia also gave the demonstration of a strong champion, who found himself, to the “Ricardo Tormo”. After Martín’s out on the sixth lap, he could have closed calmly but instead he got another one triumph of strength. He thus consolidated third place in the Italian drivers’ ranking most successful in MotoGPbehind Rossi (89 wins) e Giacomo Agostini (68), but also broke other records. Like the one of third driver of the modern era of MotoGP (started in 2002) capable of winning two titles in a row behind Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez. And if we also broaden the horizon to the Italian winners of the old 500 class, Pecco is the fourth compatriot to win at least two Drivers’ World Championships in addition to Valentino, Agostini and Umberto Masetti. In Ducati instead it became the most successful driverthe only one capable of bringing two consecutive successes to the team by doing better than Casey Stoner (a success in 2007), now only five victories away in the ranking of GPs won with the colors of Borgo Panigale.
No 2022 on the contrary: in the end Pecco won
Let us therefore give to Caesar what is Caesar’s. Pecco fell on September 3 in Barcelona, but he was able to get back up, like a real hero of a Greek tragedy. Driving away the nightmare of a World Cup epilogue stile 2022ma al contrary. Last year he took the first title in the premier class, again in Valencia, recovering the record figure of 108 points in 10 games in Quartararo. This year he was able to tame Martín with consistency and sky-high tension, due to the 14 points that separated him from him after last Saturday’s Sprint Race. But the victory finally arrived and Pecco — who last year had broken the fast in the “winning rider on an Italian motorcycle” statistic, which lasted 50 years with Agostini’s last success on the MV Agusta — is becoming more and more legendary.
2023-11-27 10:29:28
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