Wanted ‘sheriff’ for MotoGP, as it sounds. With the low for the Argentine GP from Marc Márquez, by diplopia or double vision, and the absence of valentino rossi already assimilated by withdrawal at the end of the 2021 season, It is the first time in 26 years, since 1996, that the World Cup paddock has gone without at least one of them. Without a doubt, they have been the great referents and animators of the championship in the last two decades, both on and off the track, so a certain feeling will be normal orphan boy without having them this weekend at the facilities of the Termas de Río Hondo circuit.
Of the Quartararo, Mir, Bagnaia, Bastianini, Oliveira, Pol, Binder, Rins, Miller, Aleix, Zarco, Martín and who knows if anyone else depends that they are not missed so much once the action begins on the Argentine track, but from the outset there is a feeling of lack of leadership. Marc’s recovery from the previous episode of diplopia, last winter, was great news, among other things, because MotoGP could not afford to lose two legends like Rossi and Márquez at the same time, in the same year. AS asked Carmelo Ezpeleta about it a few days before the start of the championship and said that if it were up to him he would like to have Doohan, Rossi, Márquez and many more at the same time, but understanding that time passes for everyone and that it was great news to have the one from Repsol-Honda in action, something he fully trusted.
Now the driver’s injury from Lleida is on the right track, according to the latest medical report, and his return can happen at any time, but his absence on the Termas track will be made up for by the Honda tester, Stefan Bradl, who already did it in several races last season and in a large part of the previous one, but he did not even touch the podium. The best he did was a seventh in Portugal 2020. Needless to say, he is not the same tester as the starter…
And while this third round of the 2022 MotoGP season takes place, Rossi’s debut at the wheel of an Audi in the Fenatec GT World Challenge Europe will take place at the Italian Imola circuit. It will be five months after having officially retired, in the Ricardo Tormo de Cheste, from the competition on two wheels, in a super emotional way and with a tenth place. The doctor is still closely linked to the Motorcycle World Championship, because it owns three teams, one from MotoGP (Mooney VR46) and two from Moto2 (Mooney VR46 and Yamaha VR46 Master Camp), but did not travel to Qatar and Indonesia dates and now it doesn’t do it to Argentina either, because it has a car race, a discipline that has been taken very seriously and it remains to be seen how far it takes it.
Thus, things the weight of the grid should fall on Quartararo, who is the current champion for that and comes from being second on the wet asphalt of the Mandalika circuit, after Oliveira. That result is a success for him, because it did not go well before in the water, but his Yamaha was portrayed in Qatar due to lack of speed. Although the Frenchman is very good, he is still far from being a sheriff on the track, but he isI know that Fabio may be the most coveted piece in the transfer market if he does not agree to renew with Yamaha, both economically and technically, and siren songs can come from factories like Honda, which is at the expense of what happens with Marc, or Suzuki, which ensures that its intention is to renew Mir and Rins, but that still has to be done. see him…
After two races, the leader of the general is Bastianini, with 30 points and two ahead of Binder, three over Quartararo, five over Oliveira, six over Zarco and ten over the Espargaró brothers, Rin and Mir. Undoubtedly, a classification that is as unprecedented as it is surprising, waiting for someone to want and be able to take a step forward and earn the stripes of leader, because Bastianini, in his second year on the grid, cannot be required to be the one pull the car. And neither will Marc, who will watch the race on TV again, like in Indonesia, in the hope that the 19-point deficit that he now has with respect to the leader will not be widened by much. If he returns soon, he can still be counted on for everything, but it is not yet known when he will do so.
