Writing the story
While he is playing for the fourth world championship title in his career, the third consecutive in MotoGP, Pecco Bagnaia at Motegi he also found a way to write an important piece of Italian history in the MotoGP. The centaur from Chivasso, by achieving his first top-class victory on the Japanese track, has in fact signed the 900th Italian success in the MotoGP.
A history, that of Italy on two wheels, which has no equal in the rest of the world. In fact, no one has won more than our country among all the classes of the MotoGP, present and past. A fairy tale that began way back in 1949 with the successes in the Swiss GP of Nello Pagani in 125 and Bruno Ruffo in 250.
Pecco chasing Biaggi and Ubbiali
Bagnaia has achieved success in Japan 36 career wins and now occupies 17th place in the all-time ranking, one less than Spaniard Jorge Martinez. The Piedmontese is the fifth most successful Italian centaur ever at the moment, behind the sacred monsters Giacomo Agostini And Valentino Rossi (122 and 115 successes each, first and second overall), by Max Biaggi (42 wins) and of Carlo Ubbiali (39). In MotoGP, the current #1 of Ducati is the tenth most successful rider ever and it was in Motegi that he overtook Kevin Schwantz, collecting his 26th triumph.
Even in the premier class, Italy is the reference country: the tricolor has flown on the top step of the podium on 286 occasions thanks to 27 different drivers. In second place, predictably, is Spain: 195 Iberian victories between the 500 class and MotoGP, however achieved with ‘only’ 13 different riders. The Bagnaia-Martin challenge is yet another chapter of this eternal rivalry all in ‘Latin’ style.
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