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MotoGP 2022 Grand Prix of Qatar

Bastianini wins in Quatar


Enea Bastianini Gresini Team
Enea Bastianini
USPA NEWS - MotoGP 2022 Grand Prix of Qatar
Enea Bastianini won the first race of the year of the 2022 MotoGP season aboard the Gresini team's Ducati just over a year after the death of team founder Fausto Gresini after his long battle with COVID-19. competition.
Bastianini managed to keep behind Brad Binder's official KTM and Pol Espargaro's official Honda.

Aleix Espargaro with the official Aprilia just missed the podium behind his brother Pol, Marc Marquez fifth.

Despite the promising test pace, Suzuki duo Joan Mir and Alex Rins only managed sixth and seventh respectively, while Pramac's Johann Zarco attacked reigning MotoGP world champion Fabio Quartararo at the finish line by 0.007 seconds to take eighth place. .
It was a nightmare race for the factory Ducati team, with Jack Miller retiring early due to a technical failure on his GP22 while teammate Francesco Bagnaia crashed on lap 12, knocking out Pramac's Jorge Martin as he tried to overtake the Spaniard.

Takaaki Nakagami completed the top 10 on the LCR Honda ahead of Franco Morbidelli on the factory Yamaha, with Maverick Vinales recovering from 19th to 12th place for Aprilia ahead of Luca Marini of VR46, Andrea Dovizioso of RNF Racing and the Tech rookie 3 KTM Remy Gardner who completed the placements in the points.

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