Born with the aim of giving more entertainment and livening up the Saturday of the MotoGP, the Sprints are increasingly turning into bullfights and it doesn’t matter that we were in Spain. In Jerez the first round rewards Jorge Martin, good but also very lucky, penalizes Marc Marquez who was dreaming of his first triumph of the season and depresses Pecco Bagnaia, once again on the ground without fault. Martin entered a frantic final race full of crashes, including that of Marc Marquez’s Ducati while he was in the lead. Behind him, Pedro Acosta’s Ktm GasGas and Fabio Quartararo’s Yamaha, author of a furious comeback. The Frenchman’s smile, however, was extinguished an hour after the checkered flag by the jury’s decision: his tires had the wrong pressure and with the 8 second penalty, the very veteran Dani Pedrosa on Ktm climbed onto the podium while Marquez after the crash and he finished seventh and still in the points. Yet another zero for Bagnaia, penalized in the morning by the damp track which relegated him to seventh place on the grid (as he will be today too). While he was fighting for a position close to the podium he was knocked down by Brad Binder, fighting with Marquez himself. And he got furious: «Binder’s vein certainly closed when Marc stuck it and pushed it out a little. He tried it for the first time at the last corner, risking causing us both to fall, then, not happy, he threw himself onto the curb at the first corner to overtake me and Bezzecchi and I got involved. In certain situations, Sprint leads the drivers to be out of their minds, it just didn’t make sense to make certain risky overtakings in the first laps.” But Marquez attacks him at the end of the race: «The accident between Binder and Bagnaia? In Sprints you always compete with a knife between your teeth and if they didn’t inflict any penalties on Pecco in Portimao, I don’t see why it had to happen now.”
