Italian Francesco Bagnaya won the Spanish MotoGP in Jerez on Sunday ahead of world champion Fabio Quartaro of France, who extended his lead at the top of the championship.
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Spain’s Alex Espargaro and Marc Marquez took the next two places as Spaniard Alex Rins, who started the race level on points above the standings, failed to score.
Bagania won six times last season as he finished second only to Quartaro in the championship, but struggled this season to get no better than fifth.
He said he was still battling shoulder pain in Spain, but he set up a scorching time in qualifying to secure pole position at his factory Ducati.
In the beginning, he walked away from the pack and remained ahead the rest of the way.
“It’s a beautiful day,” he said. “It’s finally all right this weekend. I’m so happy. We’re back to our full potential.”
Only Yamaha’s Quartaro could keep up the pace, but after putting pressure on the opening laps, the rest of the race hung up by over a quarter of a second before finishing.
“He was very fast today,” said Quartaro. “It wasn’t a fight because we didn’t move, but it was intense and we enjoyed it.”
Fighting and overtaking were several seconds behind the leader where Australian Jack Miller, along with another on Ducati, two more Spaniards, Espargaro, one on Aprilia, and Joan Mir, always raced hard to stop the aggressive Marquez. . , on a Suzuki, lurking behind.
They provided breathless entertainment for a crowd of over 60,000, the first time since 2019 that spectators have been admitted to the Andalusian circuit.
Marquez eventually overtaked, but lost control of a corner as he tried to block Miller’s counter-attack, only to save himself from another crash by elbowing the tarmac and regaining his balance, but he lost momentum. , while the Australian misjudged his braking. on the same corner.
Aspergaro sprang up. Swept into third and quickly finished third, about 11 seconds behind Bagnia.
“It’s been very tough mentally,” he said. “I was much faster than Jack and Mark and I couldn’t overtake them. So I wait for a mistake. Jack missed the brakes and Mark lost the front so I thought ‘this is my corner’. “
Meanwhile, Rins made a mistake and went off track on lap eight and finished only 19th.
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