MotoGP: Spaniard Maverick Vinales has taken out the Americas GP in what was a crash-ridden race in Texas.
Mick Doohan , Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez . It’s a short list of some of the all-time greats of the world motorcycle championship , and a triumvirate who are the only riders to win three consecutive MotoGP/500cc championships over the past three decades.
It’s also a predicament few – Bagnaia included – saw coming after his imposing pace in pre-season testing at Sepang in Malaysia and Lusail in Qatar, where he lopped a whopping eight-tenths of a second off Luca Marini’s pole-winning, circuit-record lap time from last November’s Qatar GP. “The fact is in the Malaysia and Qatar tests, we didn’t have any one of these kinds of problems. Everything was perfect. As soon as we started this race weekend, we started having these kinds of problems.
Trailing Martin by a Grands Prix-worth of points three rounds into a season isn’t ideal, but with 18 events remaining, it’s far from catastrophic. The deeper difficulty may be road back to the top, with the depth of rider talent and closeness of machinery in MotoGP arguably greater than ever. And then there’s star GasGas teenager Pedro Acosta, the most promising first-year rider since Marquez over a decade ago to enter the series, and
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