Despite Valentino Rossi’s farewell, the slow return to the top after Marc Marquez’s many injuries and the disaffection of a part of the public, MotoGP is giving its fans a special season from the point of view of emotions. The continuous ups and downs of this 2022 championship have produced a World Championship dominated by Ducati at the constructor level but still without a master in the drivers’ standings. After yet another reversal of Buriram, with the sensational zero of Fabio Quartararo – the third of him in the last seven races – which allowed Pecco Bagnaia to get close to just two points away in the standings, they are well seven drivers arithmetically still in the race for the title with three races to go.
Two of them – Brad Binder and Johann Zarco – are in contention only on an arithmetic level. The first three instead – Quartararo, Bagnaia and Aleix Espargarò – are collected in the space of just one race, with only 20 points to divide the first in the ranking from the third. Finally, in the middle of the ford we find Enea Bastianini and Jack Miller, separated by 39 and 40 points respectively from the top of the championship. Clearly for both the world dream is reduced to a flicker, but thinking about how Bagnaia has recovered 89 points in seven GPs, hope must also be given to them. Of these five riders, no less than three race on a Ducati. It is no coincidence that around the Borgo Panigale house there has been a lot of talk about team orders.
Bezzecchi admitted that he did not voluntarily overtake Bagnaia in Japan and the same declared that he did Zarco in Thailand. Bastianini and Martin, on the other hand, made it clear that they were not particularly willing to help the top driver of the official team. However, there are also those who wondered why Jack Miller did not ‘get up’ in Buriram at the end of the race to give his boxmate four more points. The team manager took care of the answer Davide Tardozziwho spoke to the Spanish site AS. “Miller did not do what Zarco did because he is 40 points behind the leader – explained the Italian manager – and he was 7 tenths from Oliveira, fighting for the race. In the third sector he had reached three tenths. If Pecco needs him in the last race, I think Miller will definitely help Bagnaia. But here Miller had to play his cards right and exploit its possibilities “ concluded Tardozzi.
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