Rins held on in a classic MotoGP encounter. Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team), meanwhile, took third, and with it a fair margin of Championship lead as some serious dramas unfolded behind. Marquez, who was forced to settle for second but got back on the box, secured his 100th premier class podium. It’s Alex Rins (Team Suzuki Ecstar) who took an emotional win, the number 42 fighting at the front throughout and then fending off Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) on the final lap. It’s also the second closest top ten ever. The history was the top seven riders finishing, incredibly, within a single second – 0.884, to be exact.
The finish of that race was not the best one, but it was the best one about performance, and I enjoyed a lot.The Animoca Brands Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix made a lot of headlines and a bit of history.
“That race was one of the best in my career. “The last race I enjoyed was 2020 in Jerez,” he admitted. If you tried hard enough, you could’ve watched this race and completely forgotten about his painful last two seasons of injury, surgery and rehabilitation.Įven Márquez admitted it felt like an old-school race, saying it reminded him of his fateful 2020 Spanish Grand Prix, which he was set to dominate before crashing and breaking his arm. He even had one of those needless but ultimately harmless warm-up crashes he has a habit of committing as he searches for the limit. Quick in mixed conditions, quick in practice, quick in qualifying, catlike reflexive when required and superbly cerebral in the race. This race - this whole weekend - was vintage Márquez. “It means a lot for me, it means a lot for all the people that helped me on this tough season - to all the doctors, all the physios I worked with.” Of course first of all I’m really happy about this podium,” he said. His incisiveness through Southern Loop was particularly impressive and illustrated how much he was able to tap into his bike’s inherent advantages.īut best of all was his final lap, cutting down Bagnaia’s inside and perfectly positioning his bike through Lukey Heights and down into MG to prevent a trademark Márquez snatch and grab at the death from depriving him of sending off Suzuki on a high. Neither rider finished the next two races, and it took almost two months to get both back into the points at the Dutch TT, which still stands as its last double-points finish despite being almost four months ago.īoth Rins and teammate Joan Mir have battled injury throughout the season, and the year seemed destined to end without a victory for the 2020 teams championship-winning outfit.īut at a circuit that was perfectly suited the nimble GSX-RR and its inline four-cylinder motor, Rins pulled a blinder. The news broke after the Spanish Grand Prix in May, and the team’s results instantly nosedived.
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