MotoGP, Spanish GP: Perfect Bagnaia, Ducati back on track 2022

(Sports news, MotoGP news) The first race in “the land of bulls” of the year took place at the Jerez racecourse, which will welcome 100% capacity for the audience for the first time since 2019 after the impact. of the pandemic. On a single day the riders who won poles in all the formats had excellent performances, most of which won the final in Spain.

MotoE: Granado has a ‘perfecto’ start

MotoE World Cup 2022 will take place a total of 14 races, at 7 different racetracks throughout the season. This year’s tournament has started in Jerez with the first 2 races. This was a very successful race for the LCR E-Team as Miquel Pons won the pole while Eric Granado (Brazil) won both after intense races, bringing the total number of MotoE victories to he is number 7.

Granado won the first 2 wins

Pons did not perform well in Race 1 but finished 2nd in Race 2 and Dominique Aegerter, Matteo Ferrari and Mattia Casadei were the remaining names to win this podium. Defending champion Jordi Torres ranked 5th and 7th respectively in the two races above.

Moto3: 1-2 home win for GASGAS . team

Izan Guevara won the 2nd pole since the beginning of the season at Jerez’s home ground, and the only person to reach under 1 minute 46 seconds in the qualifying round. While the candidates for the championship, respectively, are teammates at GASGAS – Sergio Garcia, Jaume Masia and Dennis Foggia are right behind.

Contrary to expectations, Foggia had a race to forget when showing weakness from the start. He fell out of the top scoring in round 11, finished at P18 and didn’t get any more points.

1-2 win for GASGAS at Moto3

Replacing the Italian driver in the winning race was Denis Oncu, and Masia represented the “bull” to confront the GASGAS troops. It seemed that the victory belonged to Red Bull KTM when their two cars led the way into the final round.

But Guevara’s superiority in the outer corner eventually helped him transform pole into a home stage championship. This is the second time that driver #28 has finished first, helping him to rise to the top 3 of the individual rankings. Garcia also excellently got P2 in the last corner to increase the gap in the rankings to 21 points after stage 6. Masia maintained stability and got the 3rd podium in a row, and Oncu once again missed the appointment with podium in 2022.

Moto2: “Samurai warrior” wins the race for the first time in 4 years

Ai Ogura for the second time in his career started at pole position, divided equally between Moto3 and Moto2 formats. The Japanese steering wheel has a calm running style but has high stability and is important to keep the tires well throughout the race. And that was shown in the 60th race of his MotoGP career.

Ogura defended the pole advantage from the start and didn’t leave the other opponents any chance. The Japanese driver took the lead in all 23 laps and took the first win of his career after almost four years of waiting.

First win for Ai Ogura at MotoGP

This achievement helped him to shorten the gap with Vietti to 19 points when the driver of VR46 only finished 6th. Aron Canet suffered a fractured hand injury during the race at Portimão 7 days ago, but he had a great performance. remarkable performance to finish 2nd overall, winning the podium for the 3rd time this season. Tony Arbolino also has the 2nd stage in the top 3 this year to continue to rank 3rd on the individual chart.

MotoGP: Perfect win for Bagnaia

Francesco Bagnaia started to “heat up” for 2022 when he got the first pole after 6 stages with the new record of Jerez race – 1 minute 36,170s, faster than the old record of Maverick Vinales to 0.414s.

Ducati riders are also far ahead of the next two riders to start in the first row, Fabio Quartararo and Aleix Espargaro 0.453s and 0.763s respectively. This promises to be an attractive ‘two-horse’ race between the two best drivers of the 2021 season when they have shown the best race pace in the test runs.

Bagnaia is so stable that Quartararo’s efforts don’t make much sense

True to the delegation, both drivers started well and preserved their rankings. Behind A. Espargaro let three other riders pass, making Aprilia’s chance to have 1 more podium very difficult. Alex Rins had the 2nd stage in a row to start outside the top 10 (P14), but at this home race, Suzuki driver could not repeat the impressive performance in the previous stage before making a mistake early and empty-handed. leave Jerez.

Bagnaia and Quartararo continuously ran faster than the top chasing and they created a gap of up to 5 seconds after half the race. However, the Ducati steering wheel has more stability for a safe distance, remaining at 0.7s for most of the second half of the race.

A.Espargaro and Aprilia become a big counterweight this season

The Yamaha handlebars tried very hard to shorten it to 0.3s, but that was not enough before a perfect Bagnaia from start to finish. He mastered the race and became the 5th driver to finish first in the 2022 stage, and at the same time rose to 5th on the individual rankings. Quartararo accepted P2 this leg but created a gap of 7 points after the 6th stage.

The attraction in the decisive rounds came again in the race for the final podium. Jack Miller and Marc Marquez finished 3rd and 4th in many rounds but by round 21, champion #93 made a beautiful strike to move up to 3rd. A.Espargaro also quickly beat Miller, combined with The short cornering phase almost caused Marquez to give up, helping the Aprilia steering wheel to return to the podium position.

Amazing save helps Marquez finish 4th

Since then, A.Espargaro has dominated ahead of Miller and Marquez to win the final P3 and for the first time for him and Aprilia to have podium in 2 consecutive races, also the 3rd podium in the last 4 races. Marquez finished 4th after once again overtaking Miller in the final lap, successfully ending the home race. Joan Mir finished 6th and Enea Bastianini finished 8th and temporarily rose to 3rd in the rankings.

The 7th race will take place at Le Mans, France from May 13 to 15.

Detailed results of Spanish GP 2022:

Individual rankings after stage 6:

According to Roger Bui (Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Magazine)