Bagnaia, intractable in Mugello
Pecco Bagnaia is simply intractable. The defending world champion had no rival in Mugello. There he added a new victory to his record that allows him to leave 21 points above a disappointing Marco Bezzecchi with his eighth place and establish himself in a leadership that, right now, nobody seems capable of discussing. Only Jorge Martín was able to keep up with him to finish second and close the gap with second place overall, which, for now, is still occupied by Bezzecchi. The brothers Marc and Álex Márquez, who searched for many minutes for the option of getting on the third step of the podium, meanwhile, suffered falls when they seemed to be in the best position to achieve it.
The two Márquez and Luca Marini started fighting practically side by side for a third place that would end up being the only really fightable option. Almost from the start, both Bagnaia and Martín quickly put land in the middle so that this was the panorama of the race. Marini, perhaps for a moment, could have thought that the falls of his two competitors would allow him to get on the podium in a Mugello circuit where his older brother, Valentino Rossi, wrote great pages of his legend. The Frenchman Johann Zarco, however, would end up overtaking him with only six laps to go and thus took away that possibility, condemning him to fourth place.
Winner's BBQ
Brad Binder, capable of setting a new top speed record for MotoGP in Saturday's sprint race with a spectacular 366.1 km/h, for his part, finished fifth, just ahead of Aleix Espargaró who, with his sixth place , achieved the second best result of the Spanish. Maverick Viñales was twelfth, Augusto Fernandez finished fifteenth and Raul Fernandez, seventeenth. His feelings, surely, had nothing to do with those of a simply exultant Jorge Martín.
“It has been a very difficult race. I chose the soft rear tire because I had no confidence in the medium all weekend. In the last four laps I lacked grip, but I was able to reach the finish line and they are fantastic points and a podium”, Martín assured as soon as he got off the bike.. Although, of course, the one who was able to leave Mugello with an undisguised smile from ear to ear was a Bagnaia who even allowed himself to celebrate in the style of Valentino Rossi or Jorge Lorenzo: staging a kind of impromptu barbecue next to a caricatured alter ego.
«It has been the perfect weekend. I did not expect a race like this, I was confident that the medium tire would be more constant, but in the last few laps it was destroyed. I am really very happy with how everything has turned out. Without a doubt, it is one of the best weekends of my life,” said the current world champion and current leader of the World Cup.. A privileged position that, right now, no one really seems to be in a position to take away from him.. Bezzecchi's downturn has given him even more wings.