Moto GP: Aussie Jack Miller has narrowly missed out on a podium finish in Thailand.
Over six minutes, 45 corners and three laps of the Malaysia n Grand Prix, Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin showed why, for the best part of two years, MotoGP has been a battle between the champion Italian and challenging Spaniard, the rest of the riders cast as supporting actors in a 330km/h high-speed drama.Head-to-head fights on track, though, have been few.
“Jorge was super aggressive but we had a very clean battle, we never touch, and I was just waiting for the moment to attack on the pace and knowing my pace was good enough to open the gap.On a weekend where Bagnaia and Martin smashed the Sepang circuit lap record in qualifying and were nine-tenths of a second faster than the best of the rest before Sunday’s showstopper, incredible was right.
It’s that absence of a rider fast enough to get between Bagnaia and Martin on the days where Bagnaia has the ascendancy, like Sunday, that was one of Bagnaia’s few laments afterwards.“As soon as I did it , I was just hoping and dreaming to see Enea or Marc gaining on Jorge and overtaking him to take some points, but again today we are showing why we are doing a different job,” he said, before expanding on his early-race brawl with Martin.
Given Martin’s remarkable consistency – Sunday’s second place was the Spaniard’s 16th second this season among 30 podiums from 38 starts – Bagnaia knows that he has a chance with one round to go, but feels his quest to win a hat-trick of titles is a long shot. “Maybe I had to be a bit more calm, but I felt like I was able to fight with him so I tried it,” Martin said.
“We never had this kind of battle in our careers, for sure we were always close but 11 overtakings in three laps … I felt I was strong to do that. Marquez clipped Binder’s bike, which shed some bodywork, and as the South African checked up he hit Quartararo, who in turn hit Miller and forced the Australian onto the kerb where he fell, his helmet clattering into Quartararo’s bike.
“From the images we have, it’s not really clear. It looks like Brad was inside and he touched someone in front, and then he had to pick up the bike and hit Fabio, and Fabio hit Jack. It was like a domino . I think it’s a race incident, nothing to be penalised. We have to be happy that both of them are fine.”
Post-Race Chatter World Championship Points Brad Binder Start Time Malaysia Final Event Portugal Race Incident Podium Finish Must-Win Race Western Asia Francesco Bagnaia Start-Finish Straight Australian Rider Sprint Race Circuit Lap Record Italian Back Half-Distance Race Won Miraculous Escape Barcelona Europe Title Decider Reigning Champ Wins South-Eastern Asia Southern Europe Reigning Champ Shoulder Pain Jorge Martin World Championship Malaysian Grand RACE REPORT Province Of Barcelona MARTIN SETTLE Thailand Miller Closes Agence France Presse Oceania Natural Disaster Qatar Season Finale Province Of Valencia Final Round Tyre Strategy Francesco Guidotti Title Contenders Matt Clayton Final Lap Penultimate Round Australia And New Zealand Possible Place Early-Race Brawl Dorna Medical Centre Track Temperatures Chief Sporting Officer Spain Chequered Flag Title Hopes Two-Horse Race Title Chase Marc Marquez Carlos Ezpeleta Asia Team Manager Series Lead Sprint Races Australia Crowd Trackside Valencia
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