There is not much more to say about the crazy and intense battle between Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Márquez at the Spanish GP last Sunday, and Gigi Dall’Igna even accepts the intensity put on track, highlighting that this was a race and a battle that will ‘stay in memory’ for a long time.
On LinkedIn, the General Manager of Ducati Corse at Ducati Motor Holding was clearly super excited about what happened on track, where he wrote: ‘A wonderful, spectacular and overwhelming victory in Jerez, for which it is worth ‘exaggerating’, yes! A masterpiece inserted in a splendid Ducati podium, with 3 different teams, and inserted in a scenario that has 5 of our bikes in the top five positions. These are races that stay in memory and in the soul, and that count more, if I may say so, both for the teams and for the riders: they go beyond the joy of an excellent performance, they give satisfaction for the work done and inspire strength and confidence for what is to come […]’
And he continued: ‘The fastest lap at the end, after a battle without limits, says it all about an exciting duel of the highest technical level between two exceptional riders who rode in record times until the end’.
And then he focused on Bagnaia, the winner of the duel and the race: ‘To say the least, an extraordinary Pecco, who started from the first lap with exceptional and exemplary riding, put his personal stamp on a difficult and fiery race, which expressed all the technique, intelligence and character of which he is capable. A significant reaction was needed, even more so after the bitterness left by the Sprint, and so it happened’.
For the Italian, this battle was risky, but the #1 showed why he has that number on his bike: ‘Rekindling the luck of the weekend has now become his trademark: the strength to always find great motivation, to leave everything behind and focus only on the race, giving his best, never holding back, in a fierce battle that is as spectacular as it is insidious due to all the risks it implies. In other words, he rose up and won with the authority justified by the number one on his fairing’.
