Fabio Quartararo now left behind Francesco Bagnaia in the title race MotoGP World Champion 2022. But, runner Yamaha he did not give up.
Quartararo was unable to finish in the race MotoGP Australia at Phillip Island, Sunday (10/16/2022) morning WIB. While his closest competitor, Bagnaia, almost won before finishing third.
However, that result was enough to get Quartararo out of the top of the MotoGP standings and his position is now replaced by Bagnaia. The Ducati rider has 233 points, 14 points ahead of Quartararo with 219 points.
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With two races remaining in Malaysia and Valencia, Bagnaia’s chances of becoming world champion are greater. Because the performances of Bagnaia and Ducati are hot again.
While Quartararo is winless after the summer break and hasn’t scored three points in the last four races, Bagnaia has won four in the last eight.
In fact, only once he failed to finish in Japan and seven times on the podium. Meanwhile, Quartararo only reached the podium in Austria and failed to finish three times.
Consequently, it was enough for Bagnaia to win at Sepang to take the throne of Quartararo’s world champion. Is Quartararo pessimistic about his chances of winning?
“Everything has changed for Pecco after the Sachsenring race, so we can still change it in the last two races. I’m sure we can do well,” he said. Fabio Quartararo as mentioned GPone.
“I think we can still be world champions, we will try. We will do our best. We will try to be ahead of Pecco, we have to win. It’s not easy to do it, but we have to make a difference. The competition is not over,” added the rider. nicknamed El Diablo.
(mr / cas)
