Bezzecchi provokes Italian euphoria at Mugello and Marc Márquez finishes in seventh position

BarcelonaThe Italian Marco Bezzecchi has caused euphoria at the Italian MotoGP Grand Prix at the Mugello circuit, achieving his fourth victory of the year and strengthening his lead in the general classification. Bezzecchi waited for the opportune moment to overtake his compatriot Francesco Pecco Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP26), the leader until that moment, to escape alone on the way to a fourth triumph of the season that makes him the leader of the category. Spaniard Jorge Martín (Aprilia RS-GP) finished third. Marc Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP26) started very strong, but finished in seventh position, conditioned by returning to the circuits only twenty days after undergoing surgery.

Marc Márquez, in fact, had reached the lead of the race at the start, in a very fun Grand Prix with a lot of overtakes. But then it was Bagnaia who took control and set a good pace. The rider from Cervera lost positions. At the front, Marco Bezzecchi took the lead by increasing the race pace and, in just a couple of laps, had already left Bagnaia more than a second behind. Behind Bagnaia, Martín had latched on, while Acosta overtook Marc Márquez. With the first two positions consolidated for Marco Bezzecchi and Jorge Martín, Pecco Bagnaia withstood the final pressure from Ai Ogura to secure third place, with Marc Márquez in seventh final position.

Márquez fell in the Le Mans race, where he fractured the fifth metatarsal of his right foot. As he already had another surgery scheduled to remove a screw from his right shoulder that was bothering a nerve, he ended up having surgery for both injuries. This weekend he returned to competition, with a good performance on Saturday and a respectable seventh place today. "I had doubts about whether to come to Mugello or skip it, because it's a track you don't feel like riding when you're physically injured. It's been a weekend of pure and hard work, of looking for the starting point. And then trying to improve for the next races," Márquez explained to the media. Next week he will face the Hungarian Grand Prix, and for this reason he pointed out: "Now the first thing is to understand the shoulder's reaction in the coming days, because I ended up more irritated than usual. The good thing is that I've noticed I have sensitivity in the operated area. And I ended up tired, but the most important thing is that I have sensitivity," he added.

With these results, Bezzecchi consolidates his lead in the general standings with a 17-point cushion over Jorge Martín in the general standings. Marc Márquez, who has missed two grand prix due to this double surgery, sees his chances of revalidating the title he won a season ago becoming very complicated, as he is in eighth position, 98 points behind the leader. Bezzecchi, seeing how the Aprilias dominate every race, dreams of being champion for the first time while waiting to see what Jorge Martín can do.