More emotion, impossible. The 2024 MotoGP World Championship will be decided in the last question, in the last round. Pecco Bagnaia did everything in his power to achieve the pole and win the Sprint of the Barcelona Solidarity GP, and delayed the resolution of the championship to the last race. Jorge Martín could only be third, surpassed in the last lap by Enea Bastianini, although he still has everything he needs to be champion today in Montmeló (2:00 p.m.): he only needs to add 7 points to be crowned in the premier class. Which practically forces Bagnaia to win… and pray.
Simple mathematics
Martín only needs to score 7 points to be crowned in the premier class: it is enough to finish the race in the top nine
The mathematics does not leave many options: Martín maintains a 19-point advantage in the lead, so he only needs to finish the race in the top nine. Something he has done for almost the entire season on Sundays. He only added two zeros (Jerez and Sachsenring) and one fiasco (15th in Misano). He finished the other races on the podium (or 4th in Austin). A regularity and effectiveness that is practically life insurance… Although there is always the uncertainty of what will happen in the 24 laps.
“I have a good mattress; The key is concentration, doing a normal race”, Jorge Martín prescribes.
“I’m happy. I have a good stitch mattress for tomorrow (for today). I’m closer to the goal. I just have to maintain the same philosophy. But I have to be prepared for everything. Anything can happen. I try to concentrate on what I can control,” Jorge Martín prescribed. “The key is concentration, doing a normal race. “I’m not going to have an unnecessary fight.”
Listening to the two drivers who are playing for the World Championship in the press room of the Circuit de Barcelona, surrounded by crowded journalists, was a gift to weigh the nerves and spirits of each one. Jorge, a short-fuse pilot, always so transparent, tries to stay calm, calm anxiety and tame the nerves that run deep inside.
“I would like to be able to do something and put 14 drivers in the middle, but I can’t do anything. I’m going to make my career, and whatever has to happen, will happen,” Bagnaia resigns.
“I was hoping to make it to Sunday. I accept it. It is a procedure to go through. Tomorrow I’m going to compete against myself, I don’t have to watch what Pecco or Enea are doing. The nerves are typical of a normal weekend. I’m taking it in a positive way, enjoying the weekend. I’m fine, I’m confident, I’ve been preparing for this moment all my life,” he told himself, more to convince himself and convey serenity than out of conviction. It doesn’t strain. The nerves give him away.
In the other corner, Pecco Bagnaia, a pilot with low heart rate and slow speech, denoted skepticism. His sad voice was one of resignation: one of the biggest MotoGP winners (17 victories, 10 on Sundays and 7 in Sprint) sees that he is left without a prize, that a second (said by Martín’s 16 second places, which have given him 254 points, 51% of his score) will leave him without his third world crown.
“I would like to be able to do something and put 14 drivers in the middle, but I can’t do anything. I’m going to have my career and have fun, and whatever has to happen, will happen,” the two-time champion practically abdicated, who needs a small miracle to recover the 19 points. Worse things have been seen in sport…
“I am still 19 points behind, I eat my hands because of what happened in Malaysia. But it is what it is. I’m going to try everything, to do the impossible, to win the race,” commented Pecco, who remembered more than ever the eight zeros that have weighed him down this year, “four because of me, but four because they threw me. The one at Silverstone is the one that hurts me the most, because it was a very big mistake of mine,” acknowledged the Italian, always so sincere and honest, that today he will seek his 11th victory in the race to seek the miracle, and in the process become the third winningest rider in a MotoGP season, along with Marc Márquez (13) and Valentino Rossi (11).
Saturday’s Sprint
Bagnaia scored his seventh ‘short’ victory with authority after overtaking Bastianini in the second lap and imposing his superior pace on everyone
He completed the first part in the Sprint. He won with authority after overtaking Bastianini in the second lap and imposing his superior pace on everyone. Then he had the help of his neighbor in the box, who overtook Martín on the last lap, in the sensitive turn 5. More than out of camaraderie or friendship with Pecco, Enea gets a bonus if he finishes third in the World Championship. At the moment he is 5 points ahead of Marc Márquez, who was 7th.
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