Austin GP: New World Championship standings following Enea Bastianini’s impressive win over Alex Rins and Jack Miller
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Enea Bastianini
Enea Bastianini has been in the form of his life as he takes the second win of the season at the Americas MotoGP in Austin, Texas. He is the first rider in the sport to win the Grand Prix for two seasons running. The win has helped him retake the lead at the top of the championship. Bastianini took the lead of the race from Jack Miller who was never able to recover from that pass as he finished 3rd after being pipped by Alex Rins.
Alex Rins had a pretty solid race as he finished P2. But the most impressive performance came from the six time world champion, Marc Marquez. A technical problem left ‘King of COTA’ Marc Marquez in 24th and last at turn one. From that position, the Spaniard dashed through the field passing the riders one by one finishing 6th ahead of his nemesis, Fabio Quartararo. The Spaniard was making a comeback after his horrific crash in Indonesia.
The two Ducatis of Jorge Martin and Johann Zarco were able to finish within the top 10 as they finished P8 and P9 respectively. Zarco must be delighted with the race as he couldn’t finish the last race but Jorge Martin should be utterly disappointed with the result after his impressive showing in Argentina. Despite Bastianini winning the race, Marc Marquez stole the show as he yet again showed that he is the “King of COTA” after finding himself in a difficult situation for no fault of his own.
Austin GP produced some impressive racing with Enea Bastianini claiming his second win of a splendid season
Marc Marquez wasn’t totally satisfied with the result but was happy with the progress he had made after his injury. He, after the race, said, “The result is not the one that we expected, but if we check how we started and where we were at the first corner, with how we finished, we can say that we built a lot of confidence.”
| POS | RIDER | TEAM | POINTS | DIFF. |
| 1 | Ene Bastianini | Gresini Ducati (GP21) | 61 | |
| 2 | Alex Rins | Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) | 56 | (-5) |
| 3 | Aleix Espargaro | Aprilia Racing (RS-GP) | 50 | (-11) |
| 4 | Joan Mir | Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) | 46 | (-15) |
| 5 | Fabio Quartararo | Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) | 44 | (-17) |
| 6 | Brad Binder | Red Bull KTM (RC16) | 42 | (-19) |
| 7 | Jack Miller | Ducati Lenovo (GP22) | 31 | (-30) |
| 8 | Johann Zarco | Pramac Ducati (GP22) | 31 | (-30) |
| 9 | Miguel Oliveira | Red Bull KTM (RC16) | 28 | (-33) |
| 10 | Jorge Martin | Pramac Ducati (GP22) | 28 | (-33) |
| 11 | Pol Espargaro | Repsol Honda (RC213V) | 23 | (-38) |
| 12 | Francesco Bagnaia | Ducati Lenovo (GP22) | 23 | (-38) |
| 13 | Marc Marquez | Repsol Honda (RC213V) | 21 | (-40) |
| 14 | Maverick Vinales | Aprilia Racing (RS-GP) | 19 | (-42) |
| 15 | Franco Morbidelli | Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) | 14 | (-47) |
| 16 | Takaaki Nakagami | LCR Honda (RC213V) | 12 | (-49) |
| 17 | Luca Marini | Mooney VR46 Ducati (GP22) | 10 | (-51) |
| 18 | Marco Bezzecchi | Mooney VR46 Ducati (GP21)* | 7 | (-54) |
| 19 | Darryn Binder | WithU Yamaha RNF (YZR-M1)* | 6 | (-55) |
| 20 | Alex Marquez | LCR Honda (RC213V) | 4 | (-57) |
| 21 | Andrea Dovizioso | WithU Yamaha RNF (YZR-M1) | 3 | (-58) |
| 22 | Remy Gardner | KTM Tech3 (RC16)* | 1 | (-60 |
“My target was to build confidence and try to not have any crashes all weekend – because the doctor said to me that everything was fixed [in my eye], but I’m scared about my health and it was a recent impact, just three weeks ago.”
“But I came here to compete. Of course I tried to control myself to not push a lot and in the race I said okay, I’m last but I don’t fix any target. I will do step by step.” As quoted by crash.
This is just the start of the season and there are many twists and turn left to happen before we can make any sort of predictions. But this can be a close call as there doesn’t seem to be a clear favorite.
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