Ducati rider Bagnaia stands on the precipice of an historic first world championship coming into this the ultimate spherical of the season on Four-6 November, as he goals to turn out to be the primary rider to have overturned a 91-point deficit and brush apart 5 DNFs to win the title.
Bagnaia has gained seven occasions to date this season, six of these coming after he crashed out of June’s German GP – the incident which left him trailing Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo by 91 factors.
Successful final weekend’s Malaysian GP, Bagnaia now leads reigning world champion Quartararo by 23 factors after the Frenchman managed to maintain his title hopes alive by ending third.
How can the 2022 MotoGP title be gained on the Valencia GP?
- If Bagnaia finishes forward of Quartararo, Bagnaia might be world champion
- Quartararo should win the race and hope Bagnaia is not any larger than 15th to win the world championship
- Quartararo can not win the championship if he finishes decrease than first, no matter the place Bagnaia is
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Staff
Picture by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images
When was the final time a Ducati rider gained the MotoGP title?
A Ducati rider final gained the MotoGP world championship in 2007, when Casey Stoner gained the primary of his two collection titles.
It stays to this date Ducati’s solely title in MotoGP because it joined as a producer in 2003.
When was the final time an Italian rider gained the MotoGP title?
An Italian rider has not gained the MotoGP world championship since Valentino Rossi tallied up his seventh premier class success in 2009 with Yamaha.
Since then, the championship has gone to 3 riders from Spain, one from Australia and one from France.
As Bagnaia is a product of Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Academy, the title for him in 2022 can be a big milestone for the nine-time grand prix motorbike world champion’s expertise improvement venture.
When was the final time a French rider gained the MotoGP title?
Quartararo stays the one French rider in historical past to have gained the premier class title following his 2021 success.
When was the final time the MotoGP title went right down to the ultimate spherical?
The MotoGP title battle has solely ever gone right down to the ultimate spherical 4 occasions previous to 2022 within the trendy period starting in 2022.
The final time was in 2017, when Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso stored his slim hopes in opposition to Marc Marquez alive right down to the finale in Valencia. Marquez gained the title.
Two years previous to that, Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo engaged in a venomous finale to a vastly controversial 2015 championship season in Valencia. Lorenzo gained the race and the championship, as Rossi completed fourth having needed to begin final for a collision with Marquez in Malaysia on the earlier spherical.
Valencia performed host to the 2013 title determined between Lorenzo and Marquez, with the latter claiming the spoils to turn out to be MotoGP’s first rookie champion since 1983.
In 2006, Rossi and Nicky Hayden took their title battle to the wire in Valencia. A crash for Rossi allowed the late Hayden to win a extremely emotional championship.
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