September 8, 2025 • 43 mins
Marc Marquez finally loses a MotoGP race. To another Marquez. But only after he loses the Sprint...but also wins it. I recap the surprises, excellent on-track action, and KTM's strong weekend in Catalunya on the post-race show!
The Rundown:
- Qualifying - All of the Fabios come out of Q1 to have a fast weekend
- Sprint Race - Marc wins the race after he had already lost it
- KTM provides the excitement
- Fabio Quartararo is really, really good.
- The Sprint features action from start to finish
- The MotoGP Race - Alex delivers - but a Marquez still dominates
- KTM provides the excitement
- Enea Bastianini's skill and the RC-16 finally mesh
- Acosta, Quartararo, and Ogura all perform fine, despite their result
- Pecco...isn't doing great
- The MotoGP Championship picture - still on-track for Motegi
- My take on the CatalanGP
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The Rundown:
- Qualifying - All of the Fabios come out of Q1 to have a fast weekend
- Sprint Race - Marc wins the race after he had already lost it
- KTM provides the excitement
- Fabio Quartararo is really, really good.
- The Sprint features action from start to finish
- The MotoGP Race - Alex delivers - but a Marquez still dominates
- KTM provides the excitement
- Enea Bastianini's skill and the RC-16 finally mesh
- Acosta, Quartararo, and Ogura all perform fine, despite their result
- Pecco...isn't doing great
- The MotoGP Championship picture - still on-track for Motegi
- My take on the CatalanGP
What did you think of Catalunya? Let me know on Facebook or the Motoweek Reddit Sub.
Find all of the latest episodes at Motoweek.net, follow on Bluesky and Instagram – and you can support the show on Patreon!
Thanks for listening!
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Frommotoweek Dot neg It's the MotorWeek podcast with your host Wilson.
The Marquez win streak is over, except that it also
technically is it. Oh and KTM has entered the group chat.
Catalunya had unexpected plot twists around every corner. Hello, and
welcome to the MotorWeek post tray show for around fifteen
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of the twenty twenty five MotoGP World Championship the Catalan
GP at the circuit the Barcelona Catalunya in Montmelo, Spain.
My name is Wilson, I'm your host, and it finally happened.
Somebody finally beat Mark Marquez. That's right, the Marquez winning
streak is officially over. Actually no, no, it's not. The
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Mark Marquez win streak is over. But with Alex winning
on Sunday, nobody, nobody but a Marquez has won erase
since Marcopizeki all the way back in round seven in Silverstone.
But this round was notable for much more than just
the story of the Marquez brothers. We saw KATM turn
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up in force a prillly unexpectedly struggle, Peco Bagnyaya struggle
even more on Tech three, announcing that they're going to
be sold the heck, and all of it was framed
by some great action throughout the field on Track, although
in fairness, the Marquez brothers thing was probably the biggest
story on Track, especially since Alex could have very easily
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bested his big brother on back to back days. Actually
he should have. And let's talk about all of it
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to patreon dot com slash MotorWeek. All right, let's dive
in to everything that happened in Catalounya starting with Saturday
and qualifying, and this was interesting for multiple reasons, most
notably the absolutely dismal performance of Pecobagnyaya, who, despite absolutely
dominating here the past three points races, just simply look
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confused by the track and the bike. I feel like
his development is going backwards right now. He not only
failed to make Q two, but he started twenty first
on the weekend, absolutely shocking. We'll talk more about him
here in a couple of minutes. But the other interesting
part leading up to qualifying was the writer that wasn't
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dominating and leading the way. Mark Marquez was only fourth
fast going into Q two, behind not only his brother Alex,
but more notably that Factory KTM duo of Brad Binder
and Pedro Acosta, who were first and second in practice.
Super impressive. Now, Mark being Mark, obviously he was able
to improve his position, but surprisingly only by following his
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brother Alex in Q two, who not only ended up
on the poll but tabled everybody. He was a full
two and a half tent ahead of the incredibly impressive
Fabio Quachruroro, who had another great qualifying session, landing on
the middle of the front row, just ahead of Mark,
and even though Bender and Acosta were so strong in practice,
when it came to posting up that best single lap time,
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they stumbled again and we see this out of KTM
on a consistent basis. Acosta was fifth. He was beat
by the riders we already talked about, along with Franco
Morbidelli and fourth, but Bender nowhere to be found. He
was all the way down in eleventh. Also, by the way,
shout out to Fabio di jan Antonio, who, much like
Fabio Quatrurero, was very strong coming out Q one, landing
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sixth to round out row two. So with Peco out
of it down in twenty first, and then Marco Bizeki,
who had been so hot coming into this round, starting
a shocking twelve. The big question heading into the sprint
was if this Alex Marquez thing was real and he
could continue to dominate, which his brother said that he
thought Alex was the favorite, or if Mark's desperate last
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effort run to make it onto the front row would
end up paying dividends. That of course led us to
the sprint race, where Alex Marquez actually did dominate. He
took that starting spot on the poll, and for probably
the first time this year, maybe the second time, somebody
was legitimately beating Mark Marquez on track without Mark helping
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them by making a mistake of his own. Now, fabio
Quat Carraro did help Alex out at least a little bit.
He was the highlight for me of the sprint race.
I am not sure what Fabio Quat Trraro had for
breakfast Saturday morning, but he was ready for a fight.
He was super aggressive right off the start and absolutely
spectacular in turn two. He made passes on the outside
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of turn two in each of the first two laps.
He then had great battles early on with Pedro Acosta
and more notably with Mark, making contact with him multiple
times as those guys went back and forth, and all
of that intense scrapping really helped break Alex free at
the front. It gave him just a little bit of
breathing room and put a little bit of pressure on Mark. Now,
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I do want to give credit where credit is to,
because at the point where Mark finally cleared that Melee,
Alex had about a half second lead right But as
the race progressed, Alex continued to slowly build on that
methodically all the way up to a second and a half.
So this wasn't somebody was holding Mark up the entire
way and because of that, Alex got a big lead
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and then he was just trying to nurse it. No,
Alex had his head down. He was legitimately just riding
away from his brother all the way up until point
where he dumped it. Yeah, that was heartbreaking to watch,
I mean, and a very Marquettes type of thing. Four
laps to go, comfortable lead and just in turn ten,
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the front end just washed out on Alex midway through
and it was tough to watch because he was going
to win that race, Like there is no question that
Alex Marquez was going to win. There wasn't enough time
for Mark, and Mark wasn't making up time at a
fast enough clip to be able to erase a second
and a half. Now, championship aside, that was a really
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big moment because somebody was actually able to relegate Mark
to second in an even up battle. I mean, it
doesn't really matter that he threw it away. He was there,
he had done it. But then when you do consider
the championship and that it was the rider in second
and the standings that threw it into the gravel trap,
and the championship leader that took the top spot because
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of it, thought that was an even bigger moment. Actually,
the entire sprint was really huge for Mark in the
championship because all of his main challengers came out of
that sprint with zero points. Alex of course, rect in
turn ten Peco was simply terrible, finished way outside the points,
and Marco Pitzeki got taken out by Fermi and Aldiger
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so he had no chance to get up into the
points as well. Now we'll talk about a few of
these riders in a moment, but there are actually a
couple of observations, a couple of things that stood out
to me in this sprint. So I'm gonna do the
format a little bit differently than we normally do and
talk about those topics in this sprint, and we'll mention
a couple of other riders after that, like we normally do.
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There were a lot of great battles that were happening
top to bottom in the field during this sprint, and
the highlight for me was that katm Trio of Pedro Acosta,
Brad Binder and an A Abastianini, and yeah, Acosta wasn't
in podium contention when we thought he might be. But
still these guys put on an absolute show battling for
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that fourth spot, and even though they weren't fighting for
the podium, they were still fourth, fifth, and sixth in
the running order. Acosta led the way and continued establishing
that consistency that's really come along in the second half
of the year, and even more encouraging Bastianini, he started
to really answer the direct question I asked on the
pre race show about whether his speed would continue. You know,
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he was fast at the Red Bull Ring and he
had the results to go with it. Then he looked
like he could have been fast and hungry, but he
just had terrible luck and so we didn't get to
see any results. And so for Anaeat to step right
back up in show speed in Catalouoniam, it's a great
sign for him and it's a great sign for KTM
and it was a lot of fun to see. Those
guys were definitely the stars of the show in terms
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of action on track. Then behind them you had Joan
Zarco and Luca Marini, and it was interesting because just
like the ktms were fighting internally in this one. The
same thing was happening with the Hondas as well as
the Primak Yamahas and the trackhouseaprillia is immediately behind them.
They were all kind of bunched up together, everybody who
was kind of finding their friends, except for Dukati, who
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were busy running into the nearest Aprillia that they could find. Now,
those Honda riders weren't just battling back and forth with
each other, but they ended this sprint the first two
bikes behind the podium finishers as well as the aforementioned ktms,
and I think that is a particularly strong showing peck.
They were fighting with Marco Bizeki and for me and Aldeger,
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those are the types of people if you're Honda, you
want to be racing around on a regular basis. So
it wasn't a flashy race for them, but I think
it was good reinforcement of where they are currently in
their development. And then, like I mentioned a moment ago,
behind them were the pair of track House bikes and
the pair of Primak Yamaha's. They were all battling with
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each other the majority of the way, and I am
so glad I'm so glad that the World Feed broadcast
spent at least a little bit of time in the
middle of the race on those guys, because it is
an excellent reminder of just how hard everybody is racing,
even when they're not in a podium position. I mean,
you think about the top guys and then somebody's fifteen
seconds back, and you're like, oh, well, they're just slow.
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But this was the perfect example of how they're not slow.
Those four riders were racing like the championship was on
the line, just to get that last point that was
up for grabs in the sprint, and I do wish
we could have seen a little bit more of that
fight at the end, because Iogura somehow went out, but
we don't really know how, and he was less than
the tenth ahead of Miguel Olivera, so that definitely came
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down to the wire. Now, of course, the only reason
we weren't really seeing that battle in the closing lapse
is because that KTM fight was even better and along
the same lines. Just like you know, Praymak and track
House were fighting for that last point, those KTM guys
were fighting to have the top spot, not on the podium,
and so it doesn't matter where you are on track,
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there are always good battles happening, and there are guys
that are riding the wheels off the bike even though
they are ten or fifteen seconds behind somebody like Mark
Marquez or Alex Marquez. The next observation from this sprint terrible,
terrible luck for the factory of Prillie riders, and it
really carried through the entire weekend. It was crazy how
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it happened. In the sprint, though, Franco Morbidelli wipes out,
he takes Jorge Martine with him, and then just one
lap later for me and Aldiger tries to make a
pass up the inside during that scrap with the Honda
riders Marini and Zarco, he washes out and takes Marco
Binzeki with him, and that was a very scary moment too,
because bez hopped up. He was holding his hand in pain,
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and that's a scary scary thing. Considering how well he's
been running and his realistic chances at third overall in
the rider standings this year, that could have all gone
out the window, depending on whether he was injured or not. Thankfully,
he was okay for Sunday, but both Morbidelli and alde
Gar got hit with long lap penalties. It's really hard
to argue with either of those. I mean, both of
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those riders that caused the accidents went up and apologized immediately,
so they knew that they were in the wrong. So
those were my overall observations, my kind of take a
step back observations of the sprint. Now let's talk about
the riders on the podium, starting with the winner again,
Mark Marquez. And you know, every rider gets lucky sometimes,
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and in all fairness, Mark has been on the giving
end in the luck department a couple of times this season,
wrecking and handing victories to other riders. So it stands
the reason that eventually he's going to get one back, right,
and this was one of those times. It just things
that it was his brother that handed him to win. Clearly,
though Mark lacked a little something in the speed department.
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Now it was only a little, It wasn't anything alarming.
He wasn't going to catch Alex, but he was still
going to easily finish second, and at the time of
the wreck, he had averaged a little less than two
tenths of lapse slower than Alex's pace, but remember the
beginning of the race is included in that average, where
he was going back and forth with Pedro Costa and
Fabio Quachrraro, So he really wasn't that much slower than Alex,
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and because of that, I wasn't too concerned about his
overall speed or the fact that he probably was going
to finish second had the race ended the way we
thought it was going to. And then we move on
to Fabio Quachruraro, and he was absolutely positively fantastic in
this sprint. I don't know where all that confidence was
coming from, but it was there, and I wouldn't mind
seeing it the rest of the season. He was aggressive,
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the bike seemed to be handling well, and he was
able to get out of that final corner with enough
momentum that he really wasn't losing time at the end
of the front stretch to the Dakati and the ktms
that were immediately behind him. And to put this in
a little bit more perspective, Fabio was only one point
three seconds behind Mark Marquez at the end of this one.
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That that's awesome for a Yamaha to be that close
to Mark, and he was more than two seconds ahead
Fabio di jan Antonio, who was on a similar GP
twenty four point nine nine nine three behind him. Meanwhile,
the next highest finishing Yamaha was Miguel Alavera, who was
about seven point three seconds further back in tenth. That's
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how much more performance Fabio is extracting from the M
one just based on sheer talent alone, and Yamaha need
to take advantage of that more. I mean, this result
is great, but in the grand scheme of things, this
sprint podium isn't really helping them move into the future,
because the future is the V four engine, and you know,
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a couple of weeks ago, Fabio said he wanted to
race that engine, whether it was ready or not. And
I agree. I mean, let Quatrouro use all of that
talent to help develop the engine of the future. And
I realize there's some inherent risk there because Fabio is
so good that he might mask some of the deficiencies
of the engine, but I think he'll be honest about it.
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And obviously we all know how much better he is
than anybody else is on that M one, and so
you can kind of gauge it and let him be
the head of development, because honestly, being able to win
with that engine next year or especially with the new
rule package in twenty twenty seven, is far more valuable
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than him like bringing the neck of that current M
one just to get a sprint podium here or there,
or a good qualifying effort here or there, one way
or the other. Though, this was still a phenomenal performance
and for me, Fabio was the writer of the day
on Saturday from his Q one and Q two performances
to what he ultimately was able to do in the
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sprint and then for Fabio to gian Antonio, that was
like the quietest third place finisher in a while. Like
the other Fabio Quachraro, he came out of Q one
and like the other Fabio both qualified well and then
battle their way past the ktms the slot in behind
the Marquez brothers. So he pulled off a fantastic salvage
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job after having to come out of Q one. And
this is the third consecutive round that we've seen a
pair of riders that race their way into Q two
go on to have a really good weekend. And this
performance by Digia combined with Frankie Binning. It allowed Fabio
to pull even with his VR forty six teammate in
the rider's standings. Other riders that we haven't already talked about.
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As I was describing the battles throughout the field, Peco
bag Yaya top set list, and man, I just don't
get it. I'll be very interested this week to read
the comments that Peco made after the Sunday race, because
I get that he's lacking confidence. I get that he's
lacking field with the front end of the bike, but
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this is like next level bad. He missed Q two,
badly qualified twenty first, and that he really didn't even
go anywhere once the sprint started. I mean, yeah, he
finished fourteenth, but you got to remember five riders wrecked
out in front of him late in that race, so
he was really an teenth place rider and he moved
up what two spots, And that's the surprising part for me.
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I mean, Peco has had a rare qualifying blend during
the past, but he then tends to make up places
during the race. In this case, he was simply slow.
He was a twentieth place rider, and that is a
super confusing thing for somebody who was so amazing just
as recently as last year, on a bike that really
isn't that much different, or shouldn't be that much different.
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We already had this discussion about the whole Mark Marquez thing.
Ducati didn't have the time to redo that entire bike
around Mark. It's an evolution of the GP twenty four.
It's even using the GP twenty four engine, and yet
it's this confusing to Peco. I just don't get it,
and I would really like him to explain it to
all of us because I'm super curious. Last writer I
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want to mention is Maverick Vannale, as he was, by
the way, one of the few riders that Peco was
actually faster than in this sprint. But that's because Vinala's
is very much still trying to get back into shape
after his shoulder injury. Apparently he's had a lot of
muscle loss because he just hasn't been able to exercise
the way he typically would prepare for races. The only
reason I even bring him up is because it was
really good to see him back on track, and hopefully
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he progresses quickly now that he can get back on
the bike. So in the end, Mark somehow finds a
way to make it happen again, but he didn't look
invincible winning this sprint. Could Alex finish the job and
break his brother's win streak on Sunday. We'll talk about
the Moto GP race next, all right, So let's finish
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up our discussion about this weekend's Catalan GP by talking
about the main event, Sunday's Moto GP race. And long
story short, Mark's win streak is over, but not the
Marquez win streak. After that demoralizing mistake in the sprint,
Alex Marquez showed up on Sunday and finished the job
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correctly with a fantastic display of not just speed but strategy.
He really measured the pace of this Moto GP race
so he could maintain his laptime, so he had enough
tire to be in the one forties all the way
until the race was locked up in the end, and
you could see the effect that that had on the race.
It's very interesting. I would encourage you to go back
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and watch the progression of this race. Alex grabs a
lead about four laps in right, and then you can
notice there that there's a bit of a procession forming
behind him. Because Alex was controlling the pace, he could
get into the one thirty nines. We saw that at
one point, but instead he held it in the low
to mid one forties. He was pacing himself, he was
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pacing the field. He wanted to have enough tire to
make it to the end. Even though those guys were
closing in on him. Alex stuck to that strategy, and
you could see that one by one the potential contenders
dropped off the pace all the way until it was
just Alex and Mark. And Mark did try to make
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a go of it. He got that gap down to
a little under three tenths and there was the feeling
at that point late in the race that here we go,
Mark is going to be the spoiler one more time.
But after he had a pretty big moment running wide
into turn ten, a place where so many riders went
down over the weekend, Mark just went into preservation mode.
He locked it down and said, you know what, second
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is going to be good enough for me in this race.
And it's kind of funny because earlier in the year,
you remember, there were headlines of people suggesting that maybe
Alex was going easy on his brother, even though that
wasn't the case. Well, in this one, it would have
been interesting to be in Mark's head that thought process,
because yeah, he was thinking about the championship, But would
he have made the same decision to give up the
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fight and stay in second if it was somebody like
say Pecko up ahead of him. I tend to think
that he would have given Peco a rougher time or
made a bigger go of it than he did with Alex.
But don't take that to mean that Alex didn't earn
this one. He ran a great race and consistency paid off.
Nobody could match that pace start to finish without risking
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too much at the end. And then, of course there's
the fact that Mark obviously obviously listens to this show.
He's been hearing me say that he's going to clinch
the title in Japan, and he just wanted to make
sure that that's what was going to happen. So he
gave a couple of points to his brother, so we
could definitely extend it to Motegi. Clearly that's the case.
Why would it be anything else. Now? The KTMS once
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again put on a good show and a great fight,
and I cannot wait to talk about an AA Bastinini,
which we're gonna do here in a moment, But how
about the variety of this race. You had the Marquez
brothers up front, that's kind of a given, but they
were followed by two ktms, a Yamaha and an Aprilia,
and there were only three Ducats in the top ten
at all. Now, the other manufacturers weren't breaking the dominance
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of the Marquez brothers, but they were definitely way more
in the mix universally than we saw out of them
in the first half of the year. And so they're
making steps forward. Not enough yet, but they're making steps
forward for sure. But before we get to all of
those guys, let's talk about the Marquez brothers once again,
starting with the winner, this time, Alex Marquez and what
a great response to that disastrous sprint on Saturday. Now,
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when you look at the time sheets, Mark may have
had a tenth on Alex per lap late in the
race when it was really on the line, but that
Turnten moment absolutely made him think of the bigger picture,
which happens sometimes. But Alex, remember also ran the fastest
lap in this race. It was on lap seven, a
one th nine eight eight six, the only rider in
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the one thirty nine s at all during this race,
and after three consecutive rounds of mistakes, poor results, it
was a huge boost to both Alex and de Grissini
to see that speed return not just Sunday but all
weekend long, and return so confidently. So it was a
fantastic ride. And considering that Mark was in this one
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till the end with no mistakes of his own, this
might be Alex Marquez's best ride ever. Clearly it's his
biggest twin to beat out Mark and do it in
Barcelona in front of all the hometown fans. Wonderful moment
for him, and it was great watching him and Mark
celebrate together. Now, Mark probably didn't want to lose this one,
but let's be honest, if he were gonna have his
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winning streak broken, I'm pretty sure he would prefer that
it was his brother that was the one doing it.
I don't know what the deal was with Mark not
feeling so confident at this track because he was clearly fast,
but he was right saying on Saturday he thought his
brother was the favorite. That turned out to be the case.
So Mark settles for second. But there's really not a
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lot of harm in that. I mean outside of the
fact that it does halt Mark's absolutely insane win streak
at seven Moto GP events and fifteen consecutive point races,
And of course it does extend the championship mathematically at
least to Motegi. We'll talk about that more in a
little bit, but I'm not concerned that Mark has lost
any speed or anything. It is refreshing to know that
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he can be human at least at one track for
one weekend. I mean, overall, he's still on an entirely
separate level than anyone else in the sport right now.
But let's move on. How about the performance that we
saw not just Sunday, but all weekend long out of
an Abastienimi. I have been waiting for this moment ever
since he hit the track on a KTM. I honestly
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didn't think it was going to take him this long
to get comfortable on that bike. But things finally started
to click in burneaut and his speed has gone from
also ran to top five caliber in a hurry. And
like I said, after the Red Bull Ring, I was
a little bit worried that what we saw there was
simply home field advantage, but he backed up the speed
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part of it. In Hungary, you just have bad luck
and then Catalunya. I think it was even better than
I was hoping for because Best didn't just maintain the
speed that we saw over the past couple of rounds.
He improved upon it. And no, he couldn't keep up
with the pace of the Marquez brothers in the second
half of this race, but the overall performance was much
more consistent with what we saw out of him last
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year when he was on that factory Ducati, and it
is great that his immense talent is finally starting to
show through on that bike, and just at the right
time too. It was announced heading into the weekend that
former Formula one team boss of Rebel Racing and has
Formula one gunther Steiner, would be purchasing Tech three from
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Hervey Poncheral for next season. He was there at the
track admiring what he'd obviously spent a lot of money
on her was about to spend a lot of money on.
I'm sure he was thrilled to see that kind of
immediate success out of Bastiennini. Somebody should probably tell him
not to necessarily expect that the rest of the year,
although it would be great if he did, and we
know that Maverick Vinalis is capable of hovering around the
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top six once he's healthy again. We'll talk more about
that Tech three acquisition on the next show, although I'm
happy to report that Herve Pontoral will still be on
staff as a special consultant to the team, and that
better mean that he's gonna be at the track because
I don't know if I can have Moto GP races
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without having Hairve there being Harave. He is always so
much fun and I love every interview he does, including
the one after the race where he dropped an exploitive
when talking about Steiner getting lucky buying the team right
before In the Abastianini does this. But this is a great,
great breakthrough race for an Abastianini. I'm looking very very
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forward to seeing how this translates into the next round
at Misano, which will be a home track for him.
Other writers to talk about in this Motor GP race,
Pedro Acosta, he picked the wrong tire. I mean, what
are you gonna do? Actually, I can tell you what
you're gonna do. You're not gonna go against the entire
grid when we retire choice the next time. That's what
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you're gonna do, that kind of gamble, being the only
rider to pick a different tire. It rarely ever works.
But the thing is, that's the effect of having somebody
on the level of Mark Marquez in the series. Because
if you're Pedro Acosta, you know that the KATM is
getting better, but you know it's still nowhere near the
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level it needs to be to compete with Mark, and
so you feel like a gamble, like a tire gamble,
is the only way to have a shot of getting
up there and getting ahead of him early in the race.
So what does it cost to do? He picks the
soft retire when everybody else on the grid chooses the medium,
and it goes just like you would think it would go.
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He was in podium contention early when he had the tire,
and then he massively fell off in the closing laps,
ending up thirteen point three seconds off the winning pace
and more importantly, nearly eight seconds behind Bastiennini, who was
riding the exact same bike but with the medium reartire.
So there's that, but for me, it doesn't even matter,
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because the speed was there for Pedro for the fourth
consecutive round. That's the important part. A double fourth weekend,
I think that's excellent as KTM continues to make this
push to break up the Italian bikes at the front,
and they're actually looking racier than Aprilia is at the moment,
and at a wider variety of tracks as well. It
was a really really great weekend I think for KTM,
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and it just reinforces the speed we've been seeing out
of them the past couple of rounds. And then we
move on to Fabio Quachrraro, who is basically a superhero
at Yamaha. I mean, I would love to see what
he could do on a Ducati. He just makes that
m one so much better than it actually is. I mean,
we know how the Yamaha struggles to maintain lap time
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across a full length race, and Catalonia was no different
in that respect. But Fabio still managed to hold on
to fifth. That's better than he was able to do
earlier in the season, where he would have that strong
start but then eventually he would fade to the back
of the top ten or sometimes even outside the top ten.
Now Catalunya is a decent track for the M one,
but this was still an excellent and motivational result for
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that group at Yamaha, especially heading into a Masano track
that has a lot of the same feel. It's a
little bit faster overall, and so I'm not quite sure
how the one that's going to do there, but it
still has similar challenges technically as Catalunya, so we'll see
what Fabio can do next weekend. Iogurro was the top
finishing a Prillier rider. I believe that was in both, yeah,
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the sprint and the Motor GP race. Part of that
is because it was an absolutely dismal weekend for the
Factory A Prilia team, but also it was because Ogura
was fast. He went straight to Q two, qualified well,
had a slow start off the lights on Sunday, but
he fought his way back to sixth and he was
closing on Fabio Quachuraro for fifth at the end of
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this one. Battled hard with pecobag Yaya to get a
spot and he just ran out of time. He was
really coming at the end of this race. He definitely
has that rookie inconsistency thing going now. He also had
the injury as well, but at least he's back on
the upswing. This was by far his best performance since
the first couple of rounds of the year. You know,
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track house in general seems to be building some confidence,
and the last third of the season is generally where
we'll see rookies really start to make progress and feel
like they fit somewhere. So it'll be interesting to watch
Ogura and see how he performs. Then we move on
to Peco bag Yaya, and hey, at least he didn't
finish fourteenth or nineteenth or twenty first where he started.
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Begyaya had a great launch at the start, made up
a bunch of places on the first lap. He climbed
from twenty first up to twelfth. Even more encouraging, he
then was able to pass at least some riders that
allowed him to grind his way to seventh by the
end of the race. And I'll take that. And it's
sad that I have to say I'll take that for
Peco bag Yaya, that that's an encouraging result, but I mean,
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compared to the sprint, it's at least something, and he
was lucky that the riders chasing him in the standings,
Marco Pitzeki, Franco Morbidelli, Fabio di jian Antonio, they all
ran into problems on Sunday, and actually they were bad
all weekend long, except for Digia in the sprint on Saturday.
Peco Bagnai dodged a bullet when it came to protecting
third in the championship. Luca Mariini celebrated his contract extension
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by going out and continuing to do exactly what Luca
Marini does, just consistently showing what the Honda's capable of
at that current time. A double eighth weekend. I think
that was steady, although for a good portion of the
race he was actually running fifth. They just had a
little bit of fade at the end. But now they
know that they need to work harder on fade at
the end because whatever that bike is capable of, that
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is exactly what you're always going to get out of
Lucamarini to a fault, but it's, like I said, it's
the measuring stick that they need right now. He's very
valuable to them. And then Miguel Olivera out of nowhere,
and this is what happens. This is what happens when
you lose out on a contract or you're scared you're
gonna lose out on a contract. Suddenly both focus and
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performance spike. And that is exactly what we saw out
of Olivera this weekend. Call it the Fabio de jan
Antonio effect, because that's exactly what happened to Fabio, and
he actually revived or saved his entire Moti GP career
by stepping up when he thought his job was on
the line. Well, right after Miguel finds out that he's
getting sacked by Pramac, he turns in his best weekend
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of the year and outpaced Jack Miller in the process
in both the sprint and the Moto GP race. But
here's the problem. Diggia stepped up his game a couple
of years ago when he saw the writing on the wall.
Miguel did it after the fact, and that's why they
had the internal contest to Praymack to begin with, to
spur on this kind of motivation six or seven races ago,
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not after the decision is made and it's too late.
But I did say coming into this weekend on the
pre race show that the best thing that meets Yela
OLIVERA could do to maximize his opportunities wherever they may lie,
is to go out and perform, and he had a
good weekend. Now we'll see where it takes him next.
And then Jorge Martin salvage the only points of the
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weekend for the Factory A Prilia team. He finished tenth
from a lackluster eighteenth place starting spot. And I can't
remember if I mentioned or not, but Oliver finished eighth
in this race. So the podiums from the weekend. On Saturday,
in the sprint race, third went to Fabio di jan Antonio,
a great recovery from that bad luck in Hungary while
also reinforcing the speed that we saw there. Second went
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to Fabio Quatraro, a fantastic effort, once again getting more
out of the bike than it's probably capable of. And
then your winner in the sprint, Mark Marquez. Sometimes you
get lucky. That's what happened to Mark on Saturday. As
we move on to Sunday and the Moto GP race,
Anne Abastianini finished third, his first KTM podium. It was
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a breakthrough performance and was lot of fun to watch.
A Second went to Mark Marquez, settling for the runner
up position for the first time since May I know
it's crazy, right, And then your winner, Alex Marquez, he
came through on Sunday with the promise that he made
on Saturday, in the process winning his second Moto GP
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race of the year. What does all this do for
the championship? Well, first things first, Ducati has already won
the Constructors Championship, and that's mostly because Aprilia totally struggled
this weekend far more than expected. They locked it up
on Saturday during the sprint, or right after the sprint,
with a full seven plus rounds left in the year.
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But that's not too much of a surprise. When you've
got Mark and Alex, I mean, you're gonna win the
Constructor championship. Now, as far as the riders standings, yes,
Mark's second mathematically prevents him from clinching the title next
week Inemisano, but it's still an inevitability. It's just a
matter of time. Mark's magic number leaving Barcelona was one
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hundred and eighty five according to the Worldview broadcast. Now
what that means, or what that meant is that if
Mark were up by one hundred and eighty five points
after this weekend that he could potentially not guaranteed, he
could potentially win the title in San Marino if he
won both races while Alex got zero points. Now the
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real number isn't one hundred and eighty five, it's actually
one hundred and eighty two. But it doesn't even matter
because the chances that Mark was gonna win both races
and Alex was gonna score zero points very very small.
So one way or the other, I think this thing
was going to at least motaggi. But let's break down
the numbers a little bit further, since we've been doing
this the past couple of rounds. Right now, there are
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a maximum of two hundred and fifty nine points up
for grabs for the rest of the year. Pecobag Nyaya
trails by two hundred and fifty points, and third Marco
Bazeki is two hundred and ninety points out in four
and so that means that Bez and everybody below him
in the standings, they're done. Mark could just sit on
a beach from now to the end of the year.
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None of them could ever catch him. Peco is barely
hanging on by a thread. He's up by nine points.
Mark leads Peco by six point seventy five full rounds
worth of points, and there are seven rounds left to go,
so that's essentially done. Mark is up by four point
nine to one rounds on Alex, and so he's still
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in the picture for at least maybe two more races.
But let's look at the available points after San Marino
and then after Motegi to get a better picture of
how things are really going after they race and Misano
next week. At the conclusion of that weekend, there'll be
two hundred and twenty two points left to take, so
Peko bag Yaya is almost certainly going to be out
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at that point. He'd have to gain twenty eight points
on Mark to still be in it, and I don't
see that happening in one weekend, even if it is
his home track. He's just not racing well enough to
make up I don't think any points on Mark, let
alone twenty eight. Mark would essentially have to wreck in
both races. But Alex right now still has forty points
to play with between his one hundred and eighty two
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points behind Mark and the two hundred and twenty two
points that would be left after Misano and That's why
mathematically he still is gonna have a chance guaranteed, no
matter what happens after the sam Ma Reno round. Then
we get to Motegi. After that weekend, there'll only be
one hundred and eighty five points left to win. Now, remember,
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right now Alex is currently one hundred and eighty two
points out, So that means over the next two rounds
four points races, Alex would need to make up at
least three points on his brother. That's super possible. I mean,
he wins a sprint, Mark finishes second, that's your three
points right there. But the problem is he doesn't just
have to make up three points on Mark. He then
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has to not lose any points to him in any
of the other races, and that's not very likely. So
barring a catastrophe that sees marketing a gravel trap somewhere
during a race, we're still very much headed towards Motegi
as the place. But let's look beyond that, because for
Alex this win was really big. Not only did he
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stop that performance slide from the past couple of rounds,
he was strong from start to finish this weekend, So
now we know he can keep doing that, but by
winning the race when Peko was down in seventh, he
now leads Bagnyaya by sixty eight points for second overall
in the standings with seven races left to go. Now
Peco has made that kind of comeback in the past.
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He did it against Fabioquachuro to win a championship, but
that was a much different Peco. He was riding way
way better than he's riding right now. So for Alex,
this was a really, really good weekend to help solidify
his spot in second overall in the championship. Now when
we look behind Bagnaya, he's up by forty over Marko Pitzeki,
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who I think missed a huge opportunity this weekend with
the way that Peco is riding right now, if Bez
had just stepped up a little bit, he could have
cut that margin down significantly and had a real shot
at finishing third overall. And he does have a real shot.
He's just got to get back on the podium. And
then bag Yay is up by fifty four over Pedro Acosta,
who is riding way better. I just don't know if
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there is enough time for a Costa to make up
fifty four points by the end of the year, he'd
have to go on a pretty convincing run. And we
still don't know if this is a lasting change in
performance for KTM or if there's going to be some
rocky places here and there until the end of the year,
but it is definitely clear that that battle for third
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overall is the most interesting in the riders standings right
now and the one that's most likely to change hands
amongst the prominent positions. All Right, So that's what happened
across the weekend. What was my take on Catalunya. I'll
be honest, I thought this round was excellent. We saw
someone else on the top step of the podium on Sunday.
We got plenty of drama on Saturday, both in qualifying
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and in the sprint. We saw contact between riders, late
race surprises Alex Marquez, the heartbreak turning into the triumph
on Sunday, and most importantly, the action throughout the field
was intense on both days, especially in that sprint. All
I think we really lacked in this one was a
last slap pass somewhere in one of those two races.
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But other than that, great weekend, great racing, great fans,
lots of drama, and I imagine that Misano is going
to be just as wild, both on track and off track.
So I thought it was up there with some of
the best rounds we've had all year long. There wasn't
that one defining moment, but the quality of the action
and the surprises from start to finish, I think is
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up there with any of the top three or four
rounds that we've had this season. That's what I thought
of the Catalan GP. You can tell me what you
think on Facebook or Reddit, and ma'am, we are not
taking a break. We are heading straight to Misano next weekend.
The other half of this very interesting Spain Italy rivalry
is right around the corner. Peco is definitely gonna want
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to pick up the pace in front of the hometown fans,
but remember both Marquez brothers, they have a stake in
this race as well, because they're going to want to
continue their epic season on their manufacturer's home turf when
all the bosses are there. On top of that, Aprilia
is desperately going to be looking to turn things around
in their backyard in front of all the Italian fans,
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and it's going to be interesting to see if KTM
can keep up their excellent performances from the past couple
of race weekends. A plus. Of course, at the end
of this one we'll get to see just how much
closer Mark Marquez gets to his amazing seventh Moto GP
World Championship. So we have a lot to talk about
coming up. I don't want you to miss that or
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Frommotoweek Dot neg It's the MotorWeek podcast with your host Wilson.
The Marquez win streak is over, except that it also
technically is it. Oh and KTM has entered the group chat.
Catalunya had unexpected plot twists around every corner. Hello, and
welcome to the MotorWeek post tray show for around fifteen
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of the twenty twenty five MotoGP World Championship the Catalan
GP at the circuit the Barcelona Catalunya in Montmelo, Spain.
My name is Wilson, I'm your host, and it finally happened.
Somebody finally beat Mark Marquez. That's right, the Marquez winning
streak is officially over. Actually no, no, it's not. The
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Mark Marquez win streak is over. But with Alex winning
on Sunday, nobody, nobody but a Marquez has won erase
since Marcopizeki all the way back in round seven in Silverstone.
But this round was notable for much more than just
the story of the Marquez brothers. We saw KATM turn
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up in force a prillly unexpectedly struggle, Peco Bagnyaya struggle
even more on Tech three, announcing that they're going to
be sold the heck, and all of it was framed
by some great action throughout the field on Track, although
in fairness, the Marquez brothers thing was probably the biggest
story on Track, especially since Alex could have very easily
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bested his big brother on back to back days. Actually
he should have. And let's talk about all of it
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to patreon dot com slash MotorWeek. All right, let's dive
in to everything that happened in Catalounya starting with Saturday
and qualifying, and this was interesting for multiple reasons, most
notably the absolutely dismal performance of Pecobagnyaya, who, despite absolutely
dominating here the past three points races, just simply look
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confused by the track and the bike. I feel like
his development is going backwards right now. He not only
failed to make Q two, but he started twenty first
on the weekend, absolutely shocking. We'll talk more about him
here in a couple of minutes. But the other interesting
part leading up to qualifying was the writer that wasn't
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dominating and leading the way. Mark Marquez was only fourth
fast going into Q two, behind not only his brother Alex,
but more notably that Factory KTM duo of Brad Binder
and Pedro Acosta, who were first and second in practice.
Super impressive. Now, Mark being Mark, obviously he was able
to improve his position, but surprisingly only by following his
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brother Alex in Q two, who not only ended up
on the poll but tabled everybody. He was a full
two and a half tent ahead of the incredibly impressive
Fabio Quachruroro, who had another great qualifying session, landing on
the middle of the front row, just ahead of Mark,
and even though Bender and Acosta were so strong in practice,
when it came to posting up that best single lap time,
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they stumbled again and we see this out of KTM
on a consistent basis. Acosta was fifth. He was beat
by the riders we already talked about, along with Franco
Morbidelli and fourth, but Bender nowhere to be found. He
was all the way down in eleventh. Also, by the way,
shout out to Fabio di jan Antonio, who, much like
Fabio Quatrurero, was very strong coming out Q one, landing
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sixth to round out row two. So with Peco out
of it down in twenty first, and then Marco Bizeki,
who had been so hot coming into this round, starting
a shocking twelve. The big question heading into the sprint
was if this Alex Marquez thing was real and he
could continue to dominate, which his brother said that he
thought Alex was the favorite, or if Mark's desperate last
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effort run to make it onto the front row would
end up paying dividends. That of course led us to
the sprint race, where Alex Marquez actually did dominate. He
took that starting spot on the poll, and for probably
the first time this year, maybe the second time, somebody
was legitimately beating Mark Marquez on track without Mark helping
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them by making a mistake of his own. Now, fabio
Quat Carraro did help Alex out at least a little bit.
He was the highlight for me of the sprint race.
I am not sure what Fabio Quat Trraro had for
breakfast Saturday morning, but he was ready for a fight.
He was super aggressive right off the start and absolutely
spectacular in turn two. He made passes on the outside
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of turn two in each of the first two laps.
He then had great battles early on with Pedro Acosta
and more notably with Mark, making contact with him multiple
times as those guys went back and forth, and all
of that intense scrapping really helped break Alex free at
the front. It gave him just a little bit of
breathing room and put a little bit of pressure on Mark. Now,
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I do want to give credit where credit is to,
because at the point where Mark finally cleared that Melee,
Alex had about a half second lead right But as
the race progressed, Alex continued to slowly build on that
methodically all the way up to a second and a half.
So this wasn't somebody was holding Mark up the entire
way and because of that, Alex got a big lead
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and then he was just trying to nurse it. No,
Alex had his head down. He was legitimately just riding
away from his brother all the way up until point
where he dumped it. Yeah, that was heartbreaking to watch,
I mean, and a very Marquettes type of thing. Four
laps to go, comfortable lead and just in turn ten,
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the front end just washed out on Alex midway through
and it was tough to watch because he was going
to win that race, Like there is no question that
Alex Marquez was going to win. There wasn't enough time
for Mark, and Mark wasn't making up time at a
fast enough clip to be able to erase a second
and a half. Now, championship aside, that was a really
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big moment because somebody was actually able to relegate Mark
to second in an even up battle. I mean, it
doesn't really matter that he threw it away. He was there,
he had done it. But then when you do consider
the championship and that it was the rider in second
and the standings that threw it into the gravel trap,
and the championship leader that took the top spot because
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of it, thought that was an even bigger moment. Actually,
the entire sprint was really huge for Mark in the
championship because all of his main challengers came out of
that sprint with zero points. Alex of course, rect in
turn ten Peco was simply terrible, finished way outside the points,
and Marco Pitzeki got taken out by Fermi and Aldiger
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so he had no chance to get up into the
points as well. Now we'll talk about a few of
these riders in a moment, but there are actually a
couple of observations, a couple of things that stood out
to me in this sprint. So I'm gonna do the
format a little bit differently than we normally do and
talk about those topics in this sprint, and we'll mention
a couple of other riders after that, like we normally do.
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There were a lot of great battles that were happening
top to bottom in the field during this sprint, and
the highlight for me was that katm Trio of Pedro Acosta,
Brad Binder and an A Abastianini, and yeah, Acosta wasn't
in podium contention when we thought he might be. But
still these guys put on an absolute show battling for
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that fourth spot, and even though they weren't fighting for
the podium, they were still fourth, fifth, and sixth in
the running order. Acosta led the way and continued establishing
that consistency that's really come along in the second half
of the year, and even more encouraging Bastianini, he started
to really answer the direct question I asked on the
pre race show about whether his speed would continue. You know,
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he was fast at the Red Bull Ring and he
had the results to go with it. Then he looked
like he could have been fast and hungry, but he
just had terrible luck and so we didn't get to
see any results. And so for Anaeat to step right
back up in show speed in Catalouoniam, it's a great
sign for him and it's a great sign for KTM
and it was a lot of fun to see. Those
guys were definitely the stars of the show in terms
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of action on track. Then behind them you had Joan
Zarco and Luca Marini, and it was interesting because just
like the ktms were fighting internally in this one. The
same thing was happening with the Hondas as well as
the Primak Yamahas and the trackhouseaprillia is immediately behind them.
They were all kind of bunched up together, everybody who
was kind of finding their friends, except for Dukati, who
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were busy running into the nearest Aprillia that they could find. Now,
those Honda riders weren't just battling back and forth with
each other, but they ended this sprint the first two
bikes behind the podium finishers as well as the aforementioned ktms,
and I think that is a particularly strong showing peck.
They were fighting with Marco Bizeki and for me and Aldeger,
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those are the types of people if you're Honda, you
want to be racing around on a regular basis. So
it wasn't a flashy race for them, but I think
it was good reinforcement of where they are currently in
their development. And then, like I mentioned a moment ago,
behind them were the pair of track House bikes and
the pair of Primak Yamaha's. They were all battling with
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each other the majority of the way, and I am
so glad I'm so glad that the World Feed broadcast
spent at least a little bit of time in the
middle of the race on those guys, because it is
an excellent reminder of just how hard everybody is racing,
even when they're not in a podium position. I mean,
you think about the top guys and then somebody's fifteen
seconds back, and you're like, oh, well, they're just slow.
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But this was the perfect example of how they're not slow.
Those four riders were racing like the championship was on
the line, just to get that last point that was
up for grabs in the sprint, and I do wish
we could have seen a little bit more of that
fight at the end, because Iogura somehow went out, but
we don't really know how, and he was less than
the tenth ahead of Miguel Olivera, so that definitely came
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down to the wire. Now, of course, the only reason
we weren't really seeing that battle in the closing lapse
is because that KTM fight was even better and along
the same lines. Just like you know, Praymak and track
House were fighting for that last point, those KTM guys
were fighting to have the top spot, not on the podium,
and so it doesn't matter where you are on track,
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there are always good battles happening, and there are guys
that are riding the wheels off the bike even though
they are ten or fifteen seconds behind somebody like Mark
Marquez or Alex Marquez. The next observation from this sprint terrible,
terrible luck for the factory of Prillie riders, and it
really carried through the entire weekend. It was crazy how
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it happened. In the sprint, though, Franco Morbidelli wipes out,
he takes Jorge Martine with him, and then just one
lap later for me and Aldiger tries to make a
pass up the inside during that scrap with the Honda
riders Marini and Zarco, he washes out and takes Marco
Binzeki with him, and that was a very scary moment too,
because bez hopped up. He was holding his hand in pain,
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and that's a scary scary thing. Considering how well he's
been running and his realistic chances at third overall in
the rider standings this year, that could have all gone
out the window, depending on whether he was injured or not. Thankfully,
he was okay for Sunday, but both Morbidelli and alde
Gar got hit with long lap penalties. It's really hard
to argue with either of those. I mean, both of
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those riders that caused the accidents went up and apologized immediately,
so they knew that they were in the wrong. So
those were my overall observations, my kind of take a
step back observations of the sprint. Now let's talk about
the riders on the podium, starting with the winner again,
Mark Marquez. And you know, every rider gets lucky sometimes,
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and in all fairness, Mark has been on the giving
end in the luck department a couple of times this season,
wrecking and handing victories to other riders. So it stands
the reason that eventually he's going to get one back, right,
and this was one of those times. It just things
that it was his brother that handed him to win. Clearly,
though Mark lacked a little something in the speed department.
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Now it was only a little, It wasn't anything alarming.
He wasn't going to catch Alex, but he was still
going to easily finish second, and at the time of
the wreck, he had averaged a little less than two
tenths of lapse slower than Alex's pace, but remember the
beginning of the race is included in that average, where
he was going back and forth with Pedro Costa and
Fabio Quachrraro, So he really wasn't that much slower than Alex,
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and because of that, I wasn't too concerned about his
overall speed or the fact that he probably was going
to finish second had the race ended the way we
thought it was going to. And then we move on
to Fabio Quachruraro, and he was absolutely positively fantastic in
this sprint. I don't know where all that confidence was
coming from, but it was there, and I wouldn't mind
seeing it the rest of the season. He was aggressive,
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the bike seemed to be handling well, and he was
able to get out of that final corner with enough
momentum that he really wasn't losing time at the end
of the front stretch to the Dakati and the ktms
that were immediately behind him. And to put this in
a little bit more perspective, Fabio was only one point
three seconds behind Mark Marquez at the end of this one.
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That that's awesome for a Yamaha to be that close
to Mark, and he was more than two seconds ahead
Fabio di jan Antonio, who was on a similar GP
twenty four point nine nine nine three behind him. Meanwhile,
the next highest finishing Yamaha was Miguel Alavera, who was
about seven point three seconds further back in tenth. That's
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how much more performance Fabio is extracting from the M
one just based on sheer talent alone, and Yamaha need
to take advantage of that more. I mean, this result
is great, but in the grand scheme of things, this
sprint podium isn't really helping them move into the future,
because the future is the V four engine, and you know,
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a couple of weeks ago, Fabio said he wanted to
race that engine, whether it was ready or not. And
I agree. I mean, let Quatrouro use all of that
talent to help develop the engine of the future. And
I realize there's some inherent risk there because Fabio is
so good that he might mask some of the deficiencies
of the engine, but I think he'll be honest about it.
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And obviously we all know how much better he is
than anybody else is on that M one, and so
you can kind of gauge it and let him be
the head of development, because honestly, being able to win
with that engine next year or especially with the new
rule package in twenty twenty seven, is far more valuable
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than him like bringing the neck of that current M
one just to get a sprint podium here or there,
or a good qualifying effort here or there, one way
or the other. Though, this was still a phenomenal performance
and for me, Fabio was the writer of the day
on Saturday from his Q one and Q two performances
to what he ultimately was able to do in the
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sprint and then for Fabio to gian Antonio, that was
like the quietest third place finisher in a while. Like
the other Fabio Quachraro, he came out of Q one
and like the other Fabio both qualified well and then
battle their way past the ktms the slot in behind
the Marquez brothers. So he pulled off a fantastic salvage
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job after having to come out of Q one. And
this is the third consecutive round that we've seen a
pair of riders that race their way into Q two
go on to have a really good weekend. And this
performance by Digia combined with Frankie Binning. It allowed Fabio
to pull even with his VR forty six teammate in
the rider's standings. Other riders that we haven't already talked about.
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As I was describing the battles throughout the field, Peco
bag Yaya top set list, and man, I just don't
get it. I'll be very interested this week to read
the comments that Peco made after the Sunday race, because
I get that he's lacking confidence. I get that he's
lacking field with the front end of the bike, but
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this is like next level bad. He missed Q two,
badly qualified twenty first, and that he really didn't even
go anywhere once the sprint started. I mean, yeah, he
finished fourteenth, but you got to remember five riders wrecked
out in front of him late in that race, so
he was really an teenth place rider and he moved
up what two spots, And that's the surprising part for me.
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I mean, Peco has had a rare qualifying blend during
the past, but he then tends to make up places
during the race. In this case, he was simply slow.
He was a twentieth place rider, and that is a
super confusing thing for somebody who was so amazing just
as recently as last year, on a bike that really
isn't that much different, or shouldn't be that much different.
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We already had this discussion about the whole Mark Marquez thing.
Ducati didn't have the time to redo that entire bike
around Mark. It's an evolution of the GP twenty four.
It's even using the GP twenty four engine, and yet
it's this confusing to Peco. I just don't get it,
and I would really like him to explain it to
all of us because I'm super curious. Last writer I
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want to mention is Maverick Vannale, as he was, by
the way, one of the few riders that Peco was
actually faster than in this sprint. But that's because Vinala's
is very much still trying to get back into shape
after his shoulder injury. Apparently he's had a lot of
muscle loss because he just hasn't been able to exercise
the way he typically would prepare for races. The only
reason I even bring him up is because it was
really good to see him back on track, and hopefully
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he progresses quickly now that he can get back on
the bike. So in the end, Mark somehow finds a
way to make it happen again, but he didn't look
invincible winning this sprint. Could Alex finish the job and
break his brother's win streak on Sunday. We'll talk about
the Moto GP race next, all right, So let's finish
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up our discussion about this weekend's Catalan GP by talking
about the main event, Sunday's Moto GP race. And long
story short, Mark's win streak is over, but not the
Marquez win streak. After that demoralizing mistake in the sprint,
Alex Marquez showed up on Sunday and finished the job
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correctly with a fantastic display of not just speed but strategy.
He really measured the pace of this Moto GP race
so he could maintain his laptime, so he had enough
tire to be in the one forties all the way
until the race was locked up in the end, and
you could see the effect that that had on the race.
It's very interesting. I would encourage you to go back
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and watch the progression of this race. Alex grabs a
lead about four laps in right, and then you can
notice there that there's a bit of a procession forming
behind him. Because Alex was controlling the pace, he could
get into the one thirty nines. We saw that at
one point, but instead he held it in the low
to mid one forties. He was pacing himself, he was
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pacing the field. He wanted to have enough tire to
make it to the end. Even though those guys were
closing in on him. Alex stuck to that strategy, and
you could see that one by one the potential contenders
dropped off the pace all the way until it was
just Alex and Mark. And Mark did try to make
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a go of it. He got that gap down to
a little under three tenths and there was the feeling
at that point late in the race that here we go,
Mark is going to be the spoiler one more time.
But after he had a pretty big moment running wide
into turn ten, a place where so many riders went
down over the weekend, Mark just went into preservation mode.
He locked it down and said, you know what, second
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is going to be good enough for me in this race.
And it's kind of funny because earlier in the year,
you remember, there were headlines of people suggesting that maybe
Alex was going easy on his brother, even though that
wasn't the case. Well, in this one, it would have
been interesting to be in Mark's head that thought process,
because yeah, he was thinking about the championship, But would
he have made the same decision to give up the
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fight and stay in second if it was somebody like
say Pecko up ahead of him. I tend to think
that he would have given Peco a rougher time or
made a bigger go of it than he did with Alex.
But don't take that to mean that Alex didn't earn
this one. He ran a great race and consistency paid off.
Nobody could match that pace start to finish without risking
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too much at the end. And then, of course there's
the fact that Mark obviously obviously listens to this show.
He's been hearing me say that he's going to clinch
the title in Japan, and he just wanted to make
sure that that's what was going to happen. So he
gave a couple of points to his brother, so we
could definitely extend it to Motegi. Clearly that's the case.
Why would it be anything else. Now? The KTMS once
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again put on a good show and a great fight,
and I cannot wait to talk about an AA Bastinini,
which we're gonna do here in a moment, But how
about the variety of this race. You had the Marquez
brothers up front, that's kind of a given, but they
were followed by two ktms, a Yamaha and an Aprilia,
and there were only three Ducats in the top ten
at all. Now, the other manufacturers weren't breaking the dominance
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of the Marquez brothers, but they were definitely way more
in the mix universally than we saw out of them
in the first half of the year. And so they're
making steps forward. Not enough yet, but they're making steps
forward for sure. But before we get to all of
those guys, let's talk about the Marquez brothers once again,
starting with the winner, this time, Alex Marquez and what
a great response to that disastrous sprint on Saturday. Now,
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when you look at the time sheets, Mark may have
had a tenth on Alex per lap late in the
race when it was really on the line, but that
Turnten moment absolutely made him think of the bigger picture,
which happens sometimes. But Alex, remember also ran the fastest
lap in this race. It was on lap seven, a
one th nine eight eight six, the only rider in
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the one thirty nine s at all during this race,
and after three consecutive rounds of mistakes, poor results, it
was a huge boost to both Alex and de Grissini
to see that speed return not just Sunday but all
weekend long, and return so confidently. So it was a
fantastic ride. And considering that Mark was in this one
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till the end with no mistakes of his own, this
might be Alex Marquez's best ride ever. Clearly it's his
biggest twin to beat out Mark and do it in
Barcelona in front of all the hometown fans. Wonderful moment
for him, and it was great watching him and Mark
celebrate together. Now, Mark probably didn't want to lose this one,
but let's be honest, if he were gonna have his
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winning streak broken, I'm pretty sure he would prefer that
it was his brother that was the one doing it.
I don't know what the deal was with Mark not
feeling so confident at this track because he was clearly fast,
but he was right saying on Saturday he thought his
brother was the favorite. That turned out to be the case.
So Mark settles for second. But there's really not a
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lot of harm in that. I mean outside of the
fact that it does halt Mark's absolutely insane win streak
at seven Moto GP events and fifteen consecutive point races,
And of course it does extend the championship mathematically at
least to Motegi. We'll talk about that more in a
little bit, but I'm not concerned that Mark has lost
any speed or anything. It is refreshing to know that
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he can be human at least at one track for
one weekend. I mean, overall, he's still on an entirely
separate level than anyone else in the sport right now.
But let's move on. How about the performance that we
saw not just Sunday, but all weekend long out of
an Abastienimi. I have been waiting for this moment ever
since he hit the track on a KTM. I honestly
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didn't think it was going to take him this long
to get comfortable on that bike. But things finally started
to click in burneaut and his speed has gone from
also ran to top five caliber in a hurry. And
like I said, after the Red Bull Ring, I was
a little bit worried that what we saw there was
simply home field advantage, but he backed up the speed
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part of it. In Hungary, you just have bad luck
and then Catalunya. I think it was even better than
I was hoping for because Best didn't just maintain the
speed that we saw over the past couple of rounds.
He improved upon it. And no, he couldn't keep up
with the pace of the Marquez brothers in the second
half of this race, but the overall performance was much
more consistent with what we saw out of him last
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year when he was on that factory Ducati, and it
is great that his immense talent is finally starting to
show through on that bike, and just at the right
time too. It was announced heading into the weekend that
former Formula one team boss of Rebel Racing and has
Formula one gunther Steiner, would be purchasing Tech three from
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Hervey Poncheral for next season. He was there at the
track admiring what he'd obviously spent a lot of money
on her was about to spend a lot of money on.
I'm sure he was thrilled to see that kind of
immediate success out of Bastiennini. Somebody should probably tell him
not to necessarily expect that the rest of the year,
although it would be great if he did, and we
know that Maverick Vinalis is capable of hovering around the
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top six once he's healthy again. We'll talk more about
that Tech three acquisition on the next show, although I'm
happy to report that Herve Pontoral will still be on
staff as a special consultant to the team, and that
better mean that he's gonna be at the track because
I don't know if I can have Moto GP races
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without having Hairve there being Harave. He is always so
much fun and I love every interview he does, including
the one after the race where he dropped an exploitive
when talking about Steiner getting lucky buying the team right
before In the Abastianini does this. But this is a great,
great breakthrough race for an Abastianini. I'm looking very very
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forward to seeing how this translates into the next round
at Misano, which will be a home track for him.
Other writers to talk about in this Motor GP race,
Pedro Acosta, he picked the wrong tire. I mean, what
are you gonna do? Actually, I can tell you what
you're gonna do. You're not gonna go against the entire
grid when we retire choice the next time. That's what
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you're gonna do, that kind of gamble, being the only
rider to pick a different tire. It rarely ever works.
But the thing is, that's the effect of having somebody
on the level of Mark Marquez in the series. Because
if you're Pedro Acosta, you know that the KATM is
getting better, but you know it's still nowhere near the
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level it needs to be to compete with Mark, and
so you feel like a gamble, like a tire gamble,
is the only way to have a shot of getting
up there and getting ahead of him early in the race.
So what does it cost to do? He picks the
soft retire when everybody else on the grid chooses the medium,
and it goes just like you would think it would go.
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He was in podium contention early when he had the tire,
and then he massively fell off in the closing laps,
ending up thirteen point three seconds off the winning pace
and more importantly, nearly eight seconds behind Bastiennini, who was
riding the exact same bike but with the medium reartire.
So there's that, but for me, it doesn't even matter,
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because the speed was there for Pedro for the fourth
consecutive round. That's the important part. A double fourth weekend,
I think that's excellent as KTM continues to make this
push to break up the Italian bikes at the front,
and they're actually looking racier than Aprilia is at the moment,
and at a wider variety of tracks as well. It
was a really really great weekend I think for KTM,
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and it just reinforces the speed we've been seeing out
of them the past couple of rounds. And then we
move on to Fabio Quachrraro, who is basically a superhero
at Yamaha. I mean, I would love to see what
he could do on a Ducati. He just makes that
m one so much better than it actually is. I mean,
we know how the Yamaha struggles to maintain lap time
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across a full length race, and Catalonia was no different
in that respect. But Fabio still managed to hold on
to fifth. That's better than he was able to do
earlier in the season, where he would have that strong
start but then eventually he would fade to the back
of the top ten or sometimes even outside the top ten.
Now Catalunya is a decent track for the M one,
but this was still an excellent and motivational result for
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that group at Yamaha, especially heading into a Masano track
that has a lot of the same feel. It's a
little bit faster overall, and so I'm not quite sure
how the one that's going to do there, but it
still has similar challenges technically as Catalunya, so we'll see
what Fabio can do next weekend. Iogurro was the top
finishing a Prillier rider. I believe that was in both, yeah,
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the sprint and the Motor GP race. Part of that
is because it was an absolutely dismal weekend for the
Factory A Prilia team, but also it was because Ogura
was fast. He went straight to Q two, qualified well,
had a slow start off the lights on Sunday, but
he fought his way back to sixth and he was
closing on Fabio Quachuraro for fifth at the end of
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this one. Battled hard with pecobag Yaya to get a
spot and he just ran out of time. He was
really coming at the end of this race. He definitely
has that rookie inconsistency thing going now. He also had
the injury as well, but at least he's back on
the upswing. This was by far his best performance since
the first couple of rounds of the year. You know,
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track house in general seems to be building some confidence,
and the last third of the season is generally where
we'll see rookies really start to make progress and feel
like they fit somewhere. So it'll be interesting to watch
Ogura and see how he performs. Then we move on
to Peco bag Yaya, and hey, at least he didn't
finish fourteenth or nineteenth or twenty first where he started.
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Begyaya had a great launch at the start, made up
a bunch of places on the first lap. He climbed
from twenty first up to twelfth. Even more encouraging, he
then was able to pass at least some riders that
allowed him to grind his way to seventh by the
end of the race. And I'll take that. And it's
sad that I have to say I'll take that for
Peco bag Yaya, that that's an encouraging result, but I mean,
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compared to the sprint, it's at least something, and he
was lucky that the riders chasing him in the standings,
Marco Pitzeki, Franco Morbidelli, Fabio di jian Antonio, they all
ran into problems on Sunday, and actually they were bad
all weekend long, except for Digia in the sprint on Saturday.
Peco Bagnai dodged a bullet when it came to protecting
third in the championship. Luca Mariini celebrated his contract extension
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by going out and continuing to do exactly what Luca
Marini does, just consistently showing what the Honda's capable of
at that current time. A double eighth weekend. I think
that was steady, although for a good portion of the
race he was actually running fifth. They just had a
little bit of fade at the end. But now they
know that they need to work harder on fade at
the end because whatever that bike is capable of, that
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is exactly what you're always going to get out of
Lucamarini to a fault, but it's, like I said, it's
the measuring stick that they need right now. He's very
valuable to them. And then Miguel Olivera out of nowhere,
and this is what happens. This is what happens when
you lose out on a contract or you're scared you're
gonna lose out on a contract. Suddenly both focus and
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performance spike. And that is exactly what we saw out
of Olivera this weekend. Call it the Fabio de jan
Antonio effect, because that's exactly what happened to Fabio, and
he actually revived or saved his entire Moti GP career
by stepping up when he thought his job was on
the line. Well, right after Miguel finds out that he's
getting sacked by Pramac, he turns in his best weekend
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of the year and outpaced Jack Miller in the process
in both the sprint and the Moto GP race. But
here's the problem. Diggia stepped up his game a couple
of years ago when he saw the writing on the wall.
Miguel did it after the fact, and that's why they
had the internal contest to Praymack to begin with, to
spur on this kind of motivation six or seven races ago,
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not after the decision is made and it's too late.
But I did say coming into this weekend on the
pre race show that the best thing that meets Yela
OLIVERA could do to maximize his opportunities wherever they may lie,
is to go out and perform, and he had a
good weekend. Now we'll see where it takes him next.
And then Jorge Martin salvage the only points of the
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weekend for the Factory A Prilia team. He finished tenth
from a lackluster eighteenth place starting spot. And I can't
remember if I mentioned or not, but Oliver finished eighth
in this race. So the podiums from the weekend. On Saturday,
in the sprint race, third went to Fabio di jan Antonio,
a great recovery from that bad luck in Hungary while
also reinforcing the speed that we saw there. Second went
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to Fabio Quatraro, a fantastic effort, once again getting more
out of the bike than it's probably capable of. And
then your winner in the sprint, Mark Marquez. Sometimes you
get lucky. That's what happened to Mark on Saturday. As
we move on to Sunday and the Moto GP race,
Anne Abastianini finished third, his first KTM podium. It was
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a breakthrough performance and was lot of fun to watch.
A Second went to Mark Marquez, settling for the runner
up position for the first time since May I know
it's crazy, right, And then your winner, Alex Marquez, he
came through on Sunday with the promise that he made
on Saturday, in the process winning his second Moto GP
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race of the year. What does all this do for
the championship? Well, first things first, Ducati has already won
the Constructors Championship, and that's mostly because Aprilia totally struggled
this weekend far more than expected. They locked it up
on Saturday during the sprint, or right after the sprint,
with a full seven plus rounds left in the year.
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But that's not too much of a surprise. When you've
got Mark and Alex, I mean, you're gonna win the
Constructor championship. Now, as far as the riders standings, yes,
Mark's second mathematically prevents him from clinching the title next
week Inemisano, but it's still an inevitability. It's just a
matter of time. Mark's magic number leaving Barcelona was one
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hundred and eighty five according to the Worldview broadcast. Now
what that means, or what that meant is that if
Mark were up by one hundred and eighty five points
after this weekend that he could potentially not guaranteed, he
could potentially win the title in San Marino if he
won both races while Alex got zero points. Now the
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real number isn't one hundred and eighty five, it's actually
one hundred and eighty two. But it doesn't even matter
because the chances that Mark was gonna win both races
and Alex was gonna score zero points very very small.
So one way or the other, I think this thing
was going to at least motaggi. But let's break down
the numbers a little bit further, since we've been doing
this the past couple of rounds. Right now, there are
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a maximum of two hundred and fifty nine points up
for grabs for the rest of the year. Pecobag Nyaya
trails by two hundred and fifty points, and third Marco
Bazeki is two hundred and ninety points out in four
and so that means that Bez and everybody below him
in the standings, they're done. Mark could just sit on
a beach from now to the end of the year.
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None of them could ever catch him. Peco is barely
hanging on by a thread. He's up by nine points.
Mark leads Peco by six point seventy five full rounds
worth of points, and there are seven rounds left to go,
so that's essentially done. Mark is up by four point
nine to one rounds on Alex, and so he's still
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in the picture for at least maybe two more races.
But let's look at the available points after San Marino
and then after Motegi to get a better picture of
how things are really going after they race and Misano
next week. At the conclusion of that weekend, there'll be
two hundred and twenty two points left to take, so
Peko bag Yaya is almost certainly going to be out
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at that point. He'd have to gain twenty eight points
on Mark to still be in it, and I don't
see that happening in one weekend, even if it is
his home track. He's just not racing well enough to
make up I don't think any points on Mark, let
alone twenty eight. Mark would essentially have to wreck in
both races. But Alex right now still has forty points
to play with between his one hundred and eighty two
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points behind Mark and the two hundred and twenty two
points that would be left after Misano and That's why
mathematically he still is gonna have a chance guaranteed, no
matter what happens after the sam Ma Reno round. Then
we get to Motegi. After that weekend, there'll only be
one hundred and eighty five points left to win. Now, remember,
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right now Alex is currently one hundred and eighty two
points out, So that means over the next two rounds
four points races, Alex would need to make up at
least three points on his brother. That's super possible. I mean,
he wins a sprint, Mark finishes second, that's your three
points right there. But the problem is he doesn't just
have to make up three points on Mark. He then
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has to not lose any points to him in any
of the other races, and that's not very likely. So
barring a catastrophe that sees marketing a gravel trap somewhere
during a race, we're still very much headed towards Motegi
as the place. But let's look beyond that, because for
Alex this win was really big. Not only did he
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stop that performance slide from the past couple of rounds,
he was strong from start to finish this weekend, So
now we know he can keep doing that, but by
winning the race when Peko was down in seventh, he
now leads Bagnyaya by sixty eight points for second overall
in the standings with seven races left to go. Now
Peco has made that kind of comeback in the past.
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He did it against Fabioquachuro to win a championship, but
that was a much different Peco. He was riding way
way better than he's riding right now. So for Alex,
this was a really, really good weekend to help solidify
his spot in second overall in the championship. Now when
we look behind Bagnaya, he's up by forty over Marko Pitzeki,
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who I think missed a huge opportunity this weekend with
the way that Peco is riding right now, if Bez
had just stepped up a little bit, he could have
cut that margin down significantly and had a real shot
at finishing third overall. And he does have a real shot.
He's just got to get back on the podium. And
then bag Yay is up by fifty four over Pedro Acosta,
who is riding way better. I just don't know if
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there is enough time for a Costa to make up
fifty four points by the end of the year, he'd
have to go on a pretty convincing run. And we
still don't know if this is a lasting change in
performance for KTM or if there's going to be some
rocky places here and there until the end of the year,
but it is definitely clear that that battle for third
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overall is the most interesting in the riders standings right
now and the one that's most likely to change hands
amongst the prominent positions. All Right, So that's what happened
across the weekend. What was my take on Catalunya. I'll
be honest, I thought this round was excellent. We saw
someone else on the top step of the podium on Sunday.
We got plenty of drama on Saturday, both in qualifying
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and in the sprint. We saw contact between riders, late
race surprises Alex Marquez, the heartbreak turning into the triumph
on Sunday, and most importantly, the action throughout the field
was intense on both days, especially in that sprint. All
I think we really lacked in this one was a
last slap pass somewhere in one of those two races.
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But other than that, great weekend, great racing, great fans,
lots of drama, and I imagine that Misano is going
to be just as wild, both on track and off track.
So I thought it was up there with some of
the best rounds we've had all year long. There wasn't
that one defining moment, but the quality of the action
and the surprises from start to finish, I think is
(40:51):
up there with any of the top three or four
rounds that we've had this season. That's what I thought
of the Catalan GP. You can tell me what you
think on Facebook or Reddit, and ma'am, we are not
taking a break. We are heading straight to Misano next weekend.
The other half of this very interesting Spain Italy rivalry
is right around the corner. Peco is definitely gonna want
(41:13):
to pick up the pace in front of the hometown fans,
but remember both Marquez brothers, they have a stake in
this race as well, because they're going to want to
continue their epic season on their manufacturer's home turf when
all the bosses are there. On top of that, Aprilia
is desperately going to be looking to turn things around
in their backyard in front of all the Italian fans,
(41:33):
and it's going to be interesting to see if KTM
can keep up their excellent performances from the past couple
of race weekends. A plus. Of course, at the end
of this one we'll get to see just how much
closer Mark Marquez gets to his amazing seventh Moto GP
World Championship. So we have a lot to talk about
coming up. I don't want you to miss that or
(41:54):
the post race show from Misano, So if you have
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(42:14):
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until we talk again just a couple of days from now,
when we dive into everything that's gonna happen this weekend
(42:58):
in Sam Marino and talk about that techn three acquisition
as well, I want to thank you so much for listening.
Ride safe, and I'll talk to you soon.
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