MotoGP: More From Sunday At The Motul Solidarity Grand Prix Of Barcelona
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Francesco Bagnaia led the Motul Solidarity Grand Prix of Barcelona from start to finish, joined Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez as the only riders to win 11 or more Grand Prix races in a season, and still cut a dejected figure on the track and on the podium. He had lost the Championship to Jorge Martin, who had won only three Grand Prix races.
Jorge Martin (89).
Martin’s consistency paid off with his first MotoGP World Championship. Martin is off to Aprilia in 2025, and his satellite Ducati Prima Pramac team is off to Yamaha for next year.
Marc Marquez (93) said at the beginning of the year that after four brutal years at Honda, he just wanted to be competitive again. On a year-old Ducati that was not built around the latest generation of Michelin slicks, Marquez finished the season with a second place in the Grand Prix in Barcelona, third in the Championship, three Grand Prix wins, a Sprint win and two pole positions.Aron Canet (44) was perfect all weekend in Barcelona and won his second race in three starts.David Alonso (80) ended the season with seven straight wins in Moto3.Trackhouse Racing’s Raul Fernandez (25) was quickest in the chilly Sunday warmup, but his form did not carry over into the Grand Prix race, where he finished 18th.Tickets for the Motul Solidarity Grand Prix of Barcelona went on sale 10 days before the event took place. The grandstands still were packed, and Dorna said more than 138,000 people attended the event over three days. This is the view on Saturday from the hillside overlooking Turn One and Two and the end of the grandstand on the main straight.Film crew members were in the paddock at Barcelona for the production of the Warner Bros. movie Idols. The film centers around a Moto2 rider who gets a wildcard entry into a MotoGP race.
