MotoGP

Race results from the San Marino MotoGP at Misano, round 14 (of 20) in the 2022 world championship.

Dovizioso, 36, made his grand prix debut as a 125cc wild-card back in 2001 and has gone on to take 24 victories and 103 podiums. But when the RS-GP began to fade Bastianini burst past to trigger a showdown with Bagnaia. Pramac Ducati (GP22) Mooney VR46 Ducati (GP22) Ducati Lenovo (GP22) Gresini Ducati (GP21)

Pecco becomes the first Ducati rider to win four on the spin as the victory battle goes to the wire between the Italians.

Raul Fernandez (Tech3 KTM Factory Racing), Stefan Bradl (Repsol Honda Team) and Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda Idemitsu) rounded out the points. Bastianini regrouped and by the time Turn 10 came around, the gap was back to nothing. Further back, the top two in the World Championship – Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™) and Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing) – were locked together in P5 and P6. The Beast was straight back past though on the run into the rapid Turn 11 right-hander as Bagnaia and Viñales started to turn up the wick. One thing to note and to keep an eye on was a couple of track limits warnings for Viñales and Quartararo – caution for the pair was needed with 12 laps to go. No pass came into Turn 14 and neither into the final corner, but Bastianini hooked his GP21 up on the exit and threatened to snatch victory away from Pecco’s grasp at the chequered flag. The Frenchman gapped Espargaro by 0.7s but it was then the Aprilia star who set the fastest lap of the race on Lap 9, with the top six – down to the number 41 – split by 2.2s. Searching for a passing manoeuvre, Bastianini was late on the brakes at Turn 4 and he was out of shape, narrowly avoiding contact. The Australian slipped out at Turn 4 and a few corners later at Turn 10, Marco Bezzecchi (Mooney VR46 Racing Team) was on the floor. From pole, Jack Miller (Ducati Lenovo Team) got away fantastically and so did teammate Francesco Bagnaia, as the Italian pounced straight up to third. Maverick Viñales (Aprilia Racing) faded late on but held on to claim another hard-earned podium. New race leader Bastianini then had a hairy moment at Turn 14 as the hottest weather of the weekend was making life tricky for the premier class.

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I have already made the mistake of focusing on the classification and I was wrong, the important thing now is to try to be competitive, to win. On the last lap I did my fastest lap of the race, it had never happened to me". I prefer to think race by race, like today, if I have the chance to win I will do it. I was scared, I wasn’t able to be fast”. I got to turn 4 and the front locked up, the next lap Miller crashed and I saw Enea lose the front at turn 14, in the next one it happened to me at the Curvone. Bagnaia is proving to be the rider most in form right now and everything seems easy to him.

Francesco Bagnaia insisted he was not thinking about winning the MotoGP championship despite triumphing at Misano Adriatico on Sunday to claim his fourth ...

I can't do anything about it, there is too big a difference in style and power." I'm on the limit, I make a great pace but it's not enough, it's not enough... "I would not say I'm worried but I'm also not calm... I prefer to think like that." "In the last laps I was trying to push the gap but Enea was too fast," a delighted Bagnaia said after race. "I've already made too many mistakes (this season) thinking about the championship.

MotoGP: “I'm not worried about Bagnaia's second place in the championship. I had no problems today, but I wasn't able to overtake him.

Today I was really on the edge. “I was fine on the bike, and maybe I was more consistent than Pecco. I couldn’t do anything more.” In fact, I didn’t have problems with the bike. “I really couldn’t do more than that,” he said. On the track where he celebrated the world title last year, he couldn’t help but bite the bullet this time.

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