The MotoGP series visited the Aragón circuit last weekend and Marc Marquez (Ducati) ended a three-year race win drought. At one of his favorite tracks, Marquez had convincing wins in both the Sprint race and the full GP.
The podium was identical on both days as Jorge Martin (Ducati) finished second and Pedro Acosta (GASGAS) finished third on both Saturday and Sunday.
Defending World champion Pecco Bagnaia (Ducati) had a disastrous weekend. In Saturday’s Sprint, Bagnaia could only manage 9th place. On Sunday, he came together with Alex Marquez (Ducati) during the race and both crashed out with Bagnaia suffering severe bruising that may impact his participation at Misano next weekend.
Martin retakes the championship points lead leading into the first Misano round. For full results and points for Saturday’s Sprint race, visit the MotoGP site here. For full results and points for Sunday’s MotoGP race, visit the MotoGP site here.
I love that.
Gather ’round kids and I’ll tell you a story about Super Pit Tootsie…and that how all the NASCAR drivers are related. Heck, today she’s 95 years old and she can still drink us all under the table one right after another. She’s even halfway pretty given her age. Especially after you been drinking.
Just sayin’
I tried to find it but it’s gone, awhile back someone somewhere did a “NASCAR IS BORING” t-shirt with the MotoGP logo and that text in NASCAR font. It was hilarious….
Having your relatives drive into competitors is a very NASCAR thing to do. Looking at you Petty, Earnhardt, bunch of guys named Bobby…
LOL aren’t all them guys related?
Peco’s sideways starts were horrendous due, it was implied, to dirt on the track from extreme weather before the race. Might it not have been a good idea to clean the start area before the riders unleash 300bhp? Where were the track marshals?
Bagnaia started on the same track as everyone else. He was the only rider who had this issue. Maybe it wasnt the track, that had the issue, maybe it was the machine? yes of course, all the riders in all the classes complained the track had a strange feedback, some calling it slippery, others being lost during set up, for sure, this only created a situation where the cream rose to the top. It was the RIDER who made the difference in the race, and look who won! MM93.
up until now mm93 has seemed to be happy finishing second-fourth and given cheery interviews. the way he dispassionately regarded his brother’s crash in that inner, pre-podium room was the return of (his words) the “bastard”. he will no longer be happy w/ even second. last weekend was spain. the next two will be italy. we’ll see if the academy is thicker than vino.
Indeed. Should be very interesting from here on out for the series.
Any comments from the MM detractors out there? The silence is deafening.
+1.
fine, I bite. MM was clearly untouchable, but this is one circuit, before you guys open the bubbly, we should see if he can dominate again. And again. It’s not that MM is now slow, but that other guys (Pecco, Jorge) are fast and consistent.
It seems that MM is teaching his run into people skills to his brother. And boy is he a quick study. He ran into Pecco REAL good.
And check out MM. He seems to have learned that you can really get ‘er done if you don’t go running into people all the time. Good work MM!
I could go on. But I thought the funniest thing that I saw this week was some guy at Visordown asked the Ducati riders about the current Multistradas. Bastianini gave him a very company line non-opinion. Martin told him that he doesn’t have a motorcycle license so he hasn’t a clue. And Pecco told him that he rides a Scrambler Nightshift, which is about the only current Ducati that catches my eye. Funny that they even bothered to publish it the way that it was written.
To be fair Pecco tried to hit Alex at each start.
Alex was in front of Pecco, till Pecco came down on him from the oustside. That you infer MM93 into how Pecco hit Alex, and it was all because MM83 is teaching his little brother, it must really get under your skin, that MM83 not only won, but dominated. explain that?
OK. MM can only go left. We’ll see what happens at the other tracks. It was also par for the course of Marquez taking out another rider, one that happened to be leading the championship. Just not the Marquez we’re used to see take out other riders. Another case of Spanish riders protecting each other from the Italians?
This is one of the things that amazes me. Remember that the Americans that used to do well in GP were dirt trackers who could all totally turn left, go fast, repeat. Now it seems that there are a whole lot of street bikers for whom the right hand turns are always tighter, save the guys from island nations. What a weird time.
After watching Pecco being a human centerstand for what seemed a minute I kept thinking that Alex’s footpeg certainly had to impale Pecco. Amazing the level of protection those suits provide.
He may yet have crush injuries, even if his kit prevented penetration. My broken ankle inside a full Daytona boot after a recent tip-over confirms that.
Get well soon Nick. My ankle broke for good 23 years ago. Inside an Alpinestars Tech 8. It slows me down a bit.
Thanks Mick!
might be an interesting (rest of the) season.
perhaps the commentary was correct in that MM takes half the season to get up to speed on the Duc and then gets great(more consistent) results in the second half of the season.
MM, and others, stated MM had good race pace in Austria but bad luck struck (that’s racing).
no bad luck this past weekend however for MM.
i love how, when asked what MM was doing that he was not, and even after having all the data to study long before Sunday’s race, Pecco stated ‘it was impossible to figure out’ and ‘there were things MM was doing that only MM can do’.
like, specifically leaning 4 or 5 degrees more than everyone in some corners without losing the front end.
Pecco (and the record) stated that MM’s 0.8 gap in Pole vs second fastest was just impossible to figure out.
Pecco doesn’t seem to mind to give a lot of credit to MM.
I feel bad for Pecco regarding the AlexMarquez crash on Sunday and Pecco’s bad luck with both the starts.
Misano should be interesting as it is predicted MM simply should NOT be untouchable there like he was in Aragon.