MotoGP Teruel, Morbidelli: win and rise for the title

No, he cannot be considered offside, at all: Franco Morbidelli wins the Teruel GP on the Aragon track and for the second time this season he takes his radiant smile to the top of the podium. After the hangover of the Misano GP, his first career success in MotoGP, the Yamaha rider Petronas continues his caliber by defeating the Suzuki of Alex Rins, 2nd, and Joan Mir, 3rd, who enhance his candidacy. Morbidelli takes advantage of Nakagami’s fall at the start, goes ahead and does not give up. He set the pace with confidence, with Rins in the wake growling half a second away for a good part of the race and then lengthening in the final and reasserting his confidence.

Global relaunch

Success relaunches Morbidelli in a world class key: he is now 25 points behind world leader Joan Mir, third from 12th on the grid, once again recovered in a big way and good to capitalize on the situation. Suzuki’s Spaniard, preceded for the second time in a row by his teammate Alex Rins, very fit, gains ground to the main rivals of the day before: Fabio Quartararo, with the other Yamaha Petronas is 7th and goes to -14; Maverick Vinales, seventh with the factory team’s M1, slides to -19 and Andrea Dovizioso, only thirteenth, is now at -28. Rins is also in the fight for the laurel, at -32 behind his teammate, and on the rise within a team that, with three races to go, still doesn’t want to listen to the team’s orders.

Honda betrayed

Takaaki Nakagami and Honda’s dreams of glory evaporate after a few corners: the Japanese, who started from pole, slides off the track as soon as he takes the lead, thus frustrating his weekend as the protagonist. She is not saved by the glory of the Tokyo manufacturer, nor by Alex Márquez, who crashed while struggling on the edge of the podium: his progress, however, remains.

Ducati and the others

Ducati only accumulates a fifth place with Johann Zarco, in the Desmosedici of the Avintia team: the tenth place of Danilo Petrucci and especially the thirteenth of Andrea Dovizioso mark a perhaps definitive setback in the aspirants of the manufacturer Borgo Panigale. Really sad the situation. With Ktm placing two bikes in 6 and going back the distance, Yamaha has to ask itself some questions: it wins big with Morbidelli, but fails beyond the legitimate with the other two contenders in the world championship, given that neither Viñales nor are Quartararo ever. seemed fit.

linear stroke

The race was fairly straightforward, with Morbidelli setting the pace, no particular pitfalls and many of the big names in trouble, starting with the other Yamahas on the track. Solid Suzuki, in great shape and a favorite for the crown: with three races to go, the laurel is at stake for six drivers, in order Mir, Quartararo, Viñales, Morbidelli, Dovizioso and Rins. If Dovizioso prices collapse after this race, Morbidelli will grow strongly. Even if this Suzuki looks like a tough nut to crack.

classifications

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So on arrival: 1. MORBIDELLI (Ita-Petronas Yamaha); 2. RINSE (Spa-Suzuki); 3. MIR (Spa-Suzuki); 4. P. ESPARGARO (Spa-KTM); 5. ZARCO (Fra-Ducati Avintia); 6. OLIVEIRA (Por-KTM Tech 3); 7. VIÑALES (Spa-Yamaha); 8. QUARTARARO (Fra-Petronas Yamaha); 9. LECUONA (Spa-KTM Tech 3); 10. PETRUCCI (Ita-Ducati).
Thus in the World Cup: 1. MIR 137; 2. QUARTARARO 123; 3. VIÑALES 118; 4. MORBIDELLI 112; 5. DOVICIOUS 109