Martin, what are you up to?
The San Marino GP offered fans yet another revolution in the rankings in a championship that doesn’t want to find a single master. Jorge Martin He is still the leader, but he threw away 19 points due to a sensational strategic error which demonstrates once again how, in terms of mentality and tactical reading of the races, the Spaniard from the Pramac team has something less than Pecco Bagnaia. Martin would have been satisfied with marking his direct rival for the championship, instead by his own admission he “I thought more about winning the race than the championship“.
It can happen that you get carried away by the heat and it is certainly very easy to make judgements while sitting in the press room, but the fact that the standard bearer of the Pramac team was the only one among the leading riders to stop to change bikes it is the testimony that making a different decision and being less “impulsive“, to use Bagnaia’s words, it was possible. This error can in some ways recall the unfortunate choice of soft tyre fitted last year at Phillip Islandin a race that Martin would have easily won and instead threw away in the final laps due to his needlessly risky decision to mount a compound that was too soft. What happened today shows that #89 has not learned from that mistake.
Pecco’s head
Pecco on the other hand has shown his best quality: the ability to stay calm in decisive moments. The fact that he immediately understood that Martin’s stop was a mistake, without getting caught up in the agitation that he might have made the wrong call, speaks volumes about his control situation. Equally intelligent was the decision to don’t chase Marquez at the end of the race. The #93 was taking too many risks to chase him. Bagnaia guaranteed in the press conference that he would not sign for a result similar to Misano-2: he wants the victory and it is right that he thinks this way. For the moment, however, closing the weekend at -7 from his rival, after having found himself seven days ago at -23, is an unexpected result that he and the many fans with the #63 on the flags present at Misano can celebrate as a success.
#93 remembered how to do it
The one who actually won was Marc Márquez. After a thousand and more days without climbing onto the top step of the podium, the phenomenon from Cervera has returned to his old habits with a back-to-back that puts him back in 53 points away from the first position in the championshipThe Gresini team rider proved to be untouchable for everyone in these difficult conditions, but the fact that he was so satisfied with the pace of the GP23s in the final part of the race, when the damp conditions had by now disappeared, suggests that by now his feeling with the bike is almost optimal. Which is bad news for his opponents. For the title, Marquez himself said, it will be necessary to completely erase the mistakes in qualifying – like the one that cost him ninth place on the starting grid on Saturday morning – and in the Sprints. But a Marquez full of energy, on a comeback and with nothing to lose becomes extremely dangerous for everyone. Also hanging by a thread is Enea Bastianinithe ‘fourth fab four’ who continues to collect placings (today deservedly 3rd). The Misano-2 weekend, in a couple of weeks, will help everyone to clarify their ideas further.
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