With five different winners to date, the MotoGP World Championship will land this weekend at the Mugello Circuit, in Scarperia, with a red-hot fight to reach Olympus. Fabio Quartararo will arrive at the eighth round of the championship, the Italian Grand Prix, leader of the standings, but he already has Aleix Espargaró and an Enea Bastianini in a state of grace hot on his heels.
The fight for pole position will begin this Saturday, May 28, with Q1 at 2:10 p.m., followed by Q2, at 2:35 p.m., and will be seen live on DAZN. You can also follow minute by minute on the La Vanguardia website.
Up to five different riders climbed to the highest step of the podium in the first six races of the MotoGP Championship, but only one of them, Enea Bastianini (Gresini), had been able to repeat the privileged position. He liked savoring the honeys of triumph so much that he would soon reoffend once again. In the French Grand Prix, the Italian eclipsed the two big favorites, Bagnaia (Ducati) and Quartararo (Yamaha), and added his third victory of the year. This weekend, the World Cup arrives in his native country.
Although he still doesn't know what it's like to climb on the podium at the Mugello circuit, Bastianini will arrive at the weekend at a track where he feels “strong”. "We hope that this year will be as expected, because we arrive with the desire to confirm our competitiveness," said the rider from Rimini.
Quartararo, champion in 2021 and fourth on the French track, is currently in first place in the standings, with 102 points; four ahead of Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia). Bastianini holds third position thanks to his three wins, followed by Álex Rins (Suzuki) and Jack Miller (Ducati). Joan Mir (Suzuki) is ninth and Marc Márquez (Honda), tenth.
In the last edition of the MotoGP Italian Grand Prix, Fabio Quartararo took a run to try to storm the title at the first change. He took pole position for the fourth consecutive track and no one was able to take the lead from him. After crossing the finish line on Sunday in first position, he was postulated as the main favorite to take the championship in the absence of consistent opponents, expectations that he would more than meet. However, the weekend at Mugello was also marked by the fatal accident of 19-year-old Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier, which cost him his life.
