When the summer holidays and the championship’s equator approach, Marc Márquez seems to have everything under control to lift the title at the end of the year. The eight times world champion, who signed his sixth victory of the year in the GP of the Netherlands in another master lesson of the tempos of the race, completed and emerges from the appointment with 68 margin points about his brother Álex. The fall and injury of the second classified of the table annoyed the celebration of the great winner of the weekend, very hurt by the reverse suffered by his great rival for the title.
“I am very happy with the team’s work, because it has been an incredible weekend in an unexpected place, but I am very sorry for Álex,” said Ducati’s Spaniard. “It always hurts when a pilot is injured, and even more so if she is your brother. I was signing an excellent year and was my main rival for the title, so I wish her all the best and a prompt recovery,” he added from the closed park on 93.
It was in the sixth round when I was fighting in the head group with Pedro Acosta (KTM), he went to the ground at high speed after a rifirrafe between them, which rolled in the fourth and fifth place and had already had them before. There were several touches between them and when lying to face a slight right -wing curve, Ducati Gresini pilot lost his motorcycle and hit the asphalt violently. The trunk caused a fracture in the neck of the second metacarpal of the left hand, and El Chaval de Cervera plans to operate this Sunday night in Madrid to accelerate and start as soon as possible its recovery.
The coup for Álex can be the coup of grace for the World Cup. Almost two weekends away about his most immediate persecutor, his brother Marc can now exhibit his management skills and apply all the teachings he has learned throughout his bulky career. In Assen, a circuit where he suffered two good costlazos on Friday, he knew how to contemplate in the classification and settle for the fourth place on the grill to avoid unnecessary risks in the physical section. Touched, that position was enough to first be placed on Saturday in the ‘Sprint’ in the first round and manage the rush of the second of the championship. On Sunday it cost him a little more to take the head of the race, but when he did it in the fifth round, with an ax about his partner Pecco Bagnaia in the gachan to the entrance to the finish line, there was no way to advance him.
Marco Bezzecchi, very strong with aprilia once again, was the one who tried more throughout much of the test. The Italian, who left fifth, was the best of the rest and perched on the second place surpassing his colleague of the Rossi Academy without regard. “I wanted to attack, but Marc had one more point,” he said. Although he pressed the 93 nuts, he was immutable in the lead. On a day where there was an exchange of messages between the representative of Jorge Martín, the Noale and Carmelo Ezpeleta factory, head of the contest, the brand was able to erect the head again and show off that its motorcycle is competitive so that the world champion thinks twice on their pulse of offices with the team.
Bagnaia, third in Meta, leaves Assen more than four competition purposes of her garage partner (126 points) despite having found positive aspects in the weekend. After leaving better than anyone and leading five laps of the test, he fell to the fourth place also surpassed by an excellent Acosta, who finally stayed at the doors of the podium. He knew how to resist in the middle section of the race to reunite, overcome Spanish and get on the podium after approaching both in the lead. For the tricampeón it was a step forward, although obviously it expects much more on both personal and collective level. “The feeling is bittersweet, but the rhythm has been good and I have been able to approach my head,” said Ducati’s Italian.
In a race with several accidents, Fermín Aldeguer (Ducati Gresini) and Joan Mir (Honda) had a morrocotudo scare when the first one went out for ears and the second almost hit him. Luckily there was no lamenting major damage.
