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Warm-up results from the San Marino MotoGP at Misano, round 14 (of 20) in the 2022 world championship.

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Francesco Bagnaia took his fourth straight MotoGP win by fending off 2023 Ducati team-mate Enea Bastianini in an ultra-close Misano finish.

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Italy's Francesco Bagnaia closed the gap on MotoGP leader Fabio Quartararo on Sunday after winning the San Marino Grand Prix to claim his fourth straight ...

I'm very happy to win today, it wasn't the best start from P5 but I did it." "In the last laps I was trying to push the gap but Enea was too fast. "I struggled at the start because it was not so dry so I was struggling to find some grip, but then I started to feel that the fear was going down a bit and my feeling was better lap by lap," said Bagnaia.

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Johann Zarco, Michele Pirro and Pol Espargaro all crashed out on the very first corner, while Miller and Marco Bezzechi went down a lap later. Bagnaia's victory was all the more impressive for him being forced to start from fifth after a three-place grid penalty imposed during practice on Friday. Aprilia rider Espargaro is 33 points behind Quartararo after being overtaken by the Frenchman who had started on the grid in eighth.

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Miller suffered a front-end crash in what was an unforced error from the future KTM rider. By far his best race of the 2022 MotoGP season, Fernandez made a sensational start to find his way into 12th. After an early battle with Pramac Ducati rider Jorge Martin, Rins began to pull clear before taking a comfortable P7 finish. After suffering his worst qualifying result of the season, reigning MotoGP champion Quartararo managed to limit the damage by securing yet another top five. Marini matches his best result in MotoGP after securing back-to-back fourth place finishes. After a blip in Austria, Vinales was back to his best for most of the Misano MotoGP as he hounded Bagnaia for the lead.

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Guevara tried one move to take over and got shuffled back to fourth, with he and Öncü then hustling to find a way past on the penultimate lap. Then there was a gap back to another group headed by former Misano winner Tatsuki Suzuki (Leopard Racing) and Öncü, with ninth place marking the beginning of another freight train. It was soon a full second, as Vietti re-passed Canet at Tramonto on Lap 8 and then Canet returned the favour at Rio on Lap 9. Dennis Foggia (Leopard Racing) put in another stunner at Misano, the Italian taking his third win at the track and becoming the first Moto3™ rider to achieve the feat at one venue. Up at the front though, Lopez was putting the hammer down and setting a new personal best as he moved his advantage over then second-placed Arenas to 1.2 seconds. Fernandez put a move on Aldeguer through the quick Turn 15 on Lap 2 and set about trying to catch the top five before Canet passed Vietti at his second attempt and was into third on Lap 6. and a huge heap of memories from one of the biggest protagonists of the last decade of MotoGP™. Searching for a passing manoeuvre, Bastianini was late on the brakes at Turn 4 and he was out of shape, narrowly avoiding contact and disaster between the two. A great race because I struggled at the start because the grip was not so high, so I was struggling a bit to find some grip, some traction. The Frenchman gapped the Aprilia by 0.7s but it was then the Noale factory rider who set the fastest lap of the race on Lap 9, with the top six – down to the number 41 – split by 2.2s. The Beast was straight back past though on the run into the rapid Turn 11 right-hander though, and in good time as Bagnaia and Viñales started to turn up the wick. Further back, the top two in the World Championship at the time – Quartararo and Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing) – were locked together in P5 and P6.

Pecco becomes the first Ducati rider to win four on the spin as the victory battle goes to the wire between the Italians.

Raul Fernandez (Tech3 KTM Factory Racing), Stefan Bradl (Repsol Honda Team) and Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda Idemitsu) rounded out the points. Bastianini regrouped and by the time Turn 10 came around, the gap was back to nothing. Further back, the top two in the World Championship – Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™) and Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing) – were locked together in P5 and P6. The Beast was straight back past though on the run into the rapid Turn 11 right-hander as Bagnaia and Viñales started to turn up the wick. One thing to note and to keep an eye on was a couple of track limits warnings for Viñales and Quartararo – caution for the pair was needed with 12 laps to go. No pass came into Turn 14 and neither into the final corner, but Bastianini hooked his GP21 up on the exit and threatened to snatch victory away from Pecco’s grasp at the chequered flag. The Frenchman gapped Espargaro by 0.7s but it was then the Aprilia star who set the fastest lap of the race on Lap 9, with the top six – down to the number 41 – split by 2.2s. Searching for a passing manoeuvre, Bastianini was late on the brakes at Turn 4 and he was out of shape, narrowly avoiding contact. The Australian slipped out at Turn 4 and a few corners later at Turn 10, Marco Bezzecchi (Mooney VR46 Racing Team) was on the floor. From pole, Jack Miller (Ducati Lenovo Team) got away fantastically and so did teammate Francesco Bagnaia, as the Italian pounced straight up to third. Maverick Viñales (Aprilia Racing) faded late on but held on to claim another hard-earned podium. New race leader Bastianini then had a hairy moment at Turn 14 as the hottest weather of the weekend was making life tricky for the premier class.

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I have already made the mistake of focusing on the classification and I was wrong, the important thing now is to try to be competitive, to win. On the last lap I did my fastest lap of the race, it had never happened to me". I prefer to think race by race, like today, if I have the chance to win I will do it. I was scared, I wasn’t able to be fast”. I got to turn 4 and the front locked up, the next lap Miller crashed and I saw Enea lose the front at turn 14, in the next one it happened to me at the Curvone. Bagnaia is proving to be the rider most in form right now and everything seems easy to him.

Francesco Bagnaia has held off Enea Bastianini to win a nail-biting San Marino MotoGP after Jack Miller threw away an early lead.

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He won and lost, he took one of the greatest ever into the final round of their bout, and then kept fighting once his rival ascended to a ludicrous level. It is cliche – but perhaps not inaccurate – to say that the thing that stood out, and continues to stand out, about Dovizioso was how normal he was. But a “less thoughtful” version of Dovi may not have won the 15 races. Dovizioso joined MotoGP as a star of the lower classes, but when it comes to his premier-class tenure that’s a footnote. At Mugello he came off worse than Marquez did in a last-lap three-rider battle won by Dovizioso’s team-mate, the over-exuberant and (understandably) aggressive Danilo Petrucci. He may well do it, because he has been pretty good in many a glimpse even after the injury.

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Being aware of what has been done is a help to achieve your goals". “I have a project in mind that will change my life, I want to create something myself, while until now it was others who did it for me. "It is in line with me, but it also takes a little luck, when you crash you never know how it will end. It means that inside me there was a great drive, a great energy and the knowledge to achieve certain results ". It was nice because there were all the friends waiting for me ". They start to focus on what you've done and not what you're doing, but I didn't expect so much”.

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Through all the emotions and Today, Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP started their second home race showing good form in the Friday free practice sessions. Álex Márquez made an eye-catching start as free practice for the San Marino Grand Prix got underway at Misano. Michele Pirro failed to pass the hurdle of Q1 also due to a light rain that did not let him push in the second time attack. The LCR Honda IDEMITSU rider struggled to find the lap-time he was looking for and couldn’t progress from a super-competitive Q1 session ahead of his team’s home race tomorrow. The LCR Honda CASTROL showed improvement throughout Saturday’s sessions and, after narrowly mis 03.09.2022 The Aruba.it Racing In spite of forecasts which predicted rain, blue skies and stifling temperatures of 28 degrees greeted th The LCR Honda CASTROL rider put in a consistent performance in Sunday’s race to earn six more World Takaaki Nakagami fought his way to a points finish at the San Marino Grand Prix after a tough 27-lap MotoGP race at Misano. Miller retires after crashing out of the lead.

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Francesco Bagnaia becomes the first-ever Ducati rider to win four consecutive MotoGP races after getting the better of Enea Bastianini in an epic.

And although he made a mistake at turn four to begin the final lap, stunning pace from Bastianini - set the fastest lap of the race on the final lap - saw him set up a move coming out of the final corner, however, Bagnaia held on by just 0.034s over the line. In fifth and sixth, Espargaro made a mistake trying to close in on the top four of Bagnaia, Vinales, Bastianini and Luca Marini, which gifted the place to Quartararo. A disastrous start for Ducati then got worse as Marco Bezzecchi crashed on the same lap at turn 10.

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MotoGP: “I'm not worried about Bagnaia's second place in the championship. I had no problems today, but I wasn't able to overtake him.

Today I was really on the edge. “I was fine on the bike, and maybe I was more consistent than Pecco. I couldn’t do anything more.” In fact, I didn’t have problems with the bike. “I really couldn’t do more than that,” he said. On the track where he celebrated the world title last year, he couldn’t help but bite the bullet this time.

“Today was a really tough race. In the first few laps, I didn't have any grip at the front or the rear, and I was afraid to push: I could feel Maverick very ...

“I am very happy for Luca and the whole Team for this result at the home GP: they had a great race fighting with the very first guys. From yesterday‘s qualifying session, we knew this was going to be a tough race, starting from the third and fourth row, but we expected to have a better package. We have a test here now and I am hoping that we will be able to improve a few things so we can try to finish the season well.” I made a mistake, while braking I tried not to stay in the slipstream of Maverick (Viñales) so as not to be sucked into his wake, but at that point I was unable to avoid him, I was much faster, I went wide and I lost the front. In the end, it was 18th and that was that. I think we made a step and I think now we can continue on this line, and try to end the remaining races in the top fifteen.” Also, at the start of the race it was difficult to find confidence on the bike, I was struggling a lot and the feeling was really bad. In the second part of the race, I was able to push and had some grip and our lap times weren’t too bad, but it was too late then. But at the beginning of the race I was always trying but I couldn’t be fast. I tried all I could until the end, first at turn 14 and then at the last corner I wanted to win, but I had made a mistake before and then towards the finish line Pecco closed the door shut and there was nothing I could do. “That was our maximum pace today, I gave 100% and we were really consistent, it was a good weekend overall in our situation. When the weight in the tank dropped, the grip improved, and I could pick up the pace and push to the end.

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Probably in the past they considered it more exciting as the usual three to four riders always fought for the victory, but today all or almost all of them can. “The level of the category is rising,” Marini said. That’s of course not to say the sport is lacking for ability. It felt like a round built for him — up to a point. And Bagnaia is the form man of the series. But with the others, I could not even try. The shape of that recovery is increasingly healthy. Bastianini had a very good crack at Bagnaia in those dying laps, but he may well come to appreciate that his long-term Ducati future was done a service by him not getting past — and certainly by not crashing. We arrived really on the limit of our bike today. If you check the pace, I had the same pace as practice. Francesco Bagnaia is the first Ducati rider to score four victories in a row. And that’s frustrating for Quartararo, whose stronghold on the sport has quickly and dramatically slackened.