Pecco Bagnaia signs his fourth consecutive MotoGP victory with Ducati and surpasses Casey Stoner’s historic record.
Pecco Bagnaia writes another page of history at Misano by winning his fourth consecutive MotoGP race, the only Ducati rider to do so. Even the legend Casey Stoner it had stopped at three successes in a row, but the Turin driver intends to leave his stamp in Borgo Panigale. The gap from the leader Fabio Quartararo remains quite substantial, 30 points away with six GPs from the end of the championship.
Yet from Assen to date the distances in the standings have dropped from 91 to 30, with Pecco Bagnaia putting the Aprilia of Aleix Espargarò after this amazing success. It took him two laps to get ahead of the group, in the remaining 25 he had to defend himself first from the attacks of Maverick Vinales and in the final of Enea Bastianini, which crossed the line at 34 thousandths. A thrilling maneuver on the last lap by the Gresini rider puts some salt on this weekend and allows us to predict what the rivalry between the two compatriots will be.
Pecco Bagnaia… the world champion dream continues
After Assen, Silverstone and Spielberg, Pecco Bagnaia he won his fourth consecutive race in front of the home crowd, on a track he knows like the back of his hand due to the many seasonal training sessions. Now in Ducati they return to dreaming even if out of luck nobody wants to talk about it. “At the start of the race, I didn’t have enough grip. Maverick Vinales behind me put a lot of pressure, he had more traction – said the Lenovo Ducati team rider -. But lap after lap for me it improved, in the last six laps the bike went very well“.
To defend himself from the assault of Enea Bastianini he had to push to the last meter, placing his best lap at the end. “Throughout the race I felt that someone was right behind me“, Continued Pecco Bagnaia, author of the tenth success in the premier class, the twentieth in his career. “I don’t want to think about the general classification. If I have a chance to win, I will always try. Compared to the start of the season, we are now fast and consistent throughout the Grand Prix“.
But Bastianini’s final gamble risked ruining a weekend to be framed for Pecco. The CEO Claudio Domenicali he did not spare Aeneas a wink of ears: “We talked to our guys, we said they don’t have to be too aggressive with each other. I think Enea behaved well until the last lap, then the one off at the end could have avoided her, because she took a big risk. We do not like it“.
