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, time is of the essence for Bagnaia to overcome his deficit to world championship leader Jorge Martin and put himself in the box seat to win a hat-trick of premier-class titles , an achievement that would place the 27-year-old Italian in rarefied air.The reason, Bagnaia feels, for that ticking clock getting louder by the day? A rival named Marquez, but not the one you’d be excused for thinking.
In a title fight of minuscule margins, that contentious lap 18 Aragon clash could be what is eventually remembered in years to come as the day the season turned. Bagnaia has outscored Martin on more occasions over a single weekend than vice-versa , but the gravity of Bagnaia’s Aragon incident with Alex Marquez is stark when assessing the rounds where Martin has been faster, or gained more points from Bagnaia mistakes or misfortune., there’s only been two occasions this season where Martin hasn’t had a helping hand from the reigning world champion.
His worst weekend relative to Bagnaia was Italy, where he crashed out of the sprint and was demoted from second to third on the last lap of the Grand Prix by Bagnaia’s teammate Enea Bastianini, while in Germany, “I was very angry for what happened, and looking at the telemetry was even worse for my point of view,” he said.
Thailand this weekend – where Martin won last season – isn’t a must-win in the true sense of the term for the reigning world champion, but at the very least it’s a round where he has to outscore the Spaniard in order to give himself a chance.
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