Erm, I think I did. As I only counted races where Bagnaia would do well enough to win the championships. It's just that there haven't been any examples this year where Martin finished lower than 4th and Bagnaia didn't finish 1st or 2nd. So, I think I have counted correctly. Maybe. I'm not a statistician.
It's good to see him racing at the front, always gives the race an extra edge.
Yes, now that you mentioned it, I thought one of the commentators said something like that
Depends if you consider there to be a relationship between Pecco coming first/second and Martin coming worse than 9th/14th
Bagnaia has to "win it or bin it", no point in going for second unless Martin has already DNF'ed
I certainly hope so too. It would be a real shame not to see Martin take full advantage of his championship point lead in this final deciding race. I want to see him taking that number one plate to Aprilia next year to shake things up and make 2025 even more exciting.
It seems to me that Bagnaia has the speed such that he *should* be able to win it without too much risk of binning it. Particularly since it appears that Bastianini is up for some rear-guard action. (Though, perhaps 3rd in the championship is his motivation.)
Beast is riding for himself. He won’t hold Ducati or Martin in much esteem so is understandably out for himself in efforts to secure 3rd place in the championship.
He sacrificed 20 Million (reportedly) to ride a second hand Ducati. Backed himself. He gave up the biggest contract in the history of the sport to ride for a satellite team. Again, he backed himself. Marquez = all on black. Or red as it turned out.
With the equality in Moto3, it was amazing a rider could win 8. He's just set the record so high, maybe not to be equalled in my life time.
