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Moto2 still speaks Italian, for the fourth time in a row. Sam Lowes was the fastest driver on the track for most of the race, but it is Marini who does a true masterpiece by overtaking two laps from the end of the race. Well Di Giannantonio, I returned to the third step of the podium, while Bastianini limits the damage and accumulates 10 points on a track where he could have done more
MOTOGP, THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CATALONIAN GP
He tried to the end Sam lowes, and he was the fastest driver on the track for much of the race. But against this Luca marini there is little to do. Maro tried to escape, but the English was as fast today as it hadn’t been in years. For exactly four years, to be precise, when he won his last race at the 2016 Aragon GP. Sky Racing Team VR46 He knew how to resist Lowes’s attack without letting go and two laps from the end he left him there, with a clean, precise and elegant overtaking.
Rossi applauds his brother
“Luca was fantastic, his brother said: Valentino rossi – He had a perfect race, beating Lowes, who was very fast today. He did nothing wrong. ” Pole position – the second in a row after Misano 2 -, track record, e a victory that returns Marini to +20 over Enea Bastianini and +36 over his boxmate Marco Bezzecchi. For the fourth time in a row, the Italian anthem resounds and sweetens the Moto2 podium. A very Italian class, so much so that seven of the last eight races finished with the Tricolore on the top step of the podium.
The race
At the start Bastianini surprised everyone and after two corners he is already fifth, behind Bezzecchi, recovering 10 positions. At the end of the same lap, the Marini-Di Giannantonio-Navarro trio have already gained a second ahead of their rivals. The Speed Ups have it, and Diggia seems to have the rhythm to be with Marini. Lowes and Roberts overtake Bastianini, who begins to fight, while Xavi Vierge sets the fastest lap at 1’43 “810 and tries to attack Beast. But his teammate Jake Dixon completed the job, taking him to seventh position.
At Turn 10 Stefano Manzi and Lorenzo Dalla Porta collide, but Bulega and Dixon also have to finish the race early. Lowes, meanwhile, closed a fast lap in 1’43 ”627 and on the sixth lap he overtook Navarro, conquering third position. The Lincoln driver once again improves his fastest lap, 1’43 “621, forces Diggia to brake -which must widen to avoid contact with the Englishman- and on the following lap he signs a 1’43” 544 and overtaking a lot higher. clean in the Roman, that nothing can do to resist it.
Bezzecchi lengthens into Turn 10 and returns to the track in tenth position. Vierge falls at 9, while Jorge Martín retires and his third consecutive zero is very heavy in the world championship standings. With 7 laps to go, Lowes attacks Marini. Well first, Lowes comes in and tries to get out. Bastianini overtakes Fernández, wins sixth position and scores important points on a circuit where most was expected of him.
Two laps from the end, Marini’s masterpiece, gracefully passing Lowes and coming back to the front. Maro pushes and leads the English to error at Turn 8. Lowes goes long, the Italian goes. And win. Lowes is second, Di Giannantonio third, Bastianini sixth. “When Lowes passed me, I was fighting a lot – comments Marini warmly – but I made good use of his wake. If this is my best win? He’s not even on the podium (that is, in the top three, ed), I would have liked to leave. It’s certainly a very important win, but I could have done better. “
