The first part of 2024 season saw the Italian pilots of MotoGP experience several situations diametrically opposed to the previous one. There has been a reshuffling of roles and values, except for the granite certainty of Francesco Bagnaiain full swing for win the World Cup.
He smiles, for sure, Enea Bastianini. The Rimini native is having a great year solidso much so that he is currently fourth in the championship. Three podiums and six top-five finishes make him one of the most consistent riders on the current scene. He lacks “the change of pace”, but he is always there at the top. Above all, he recovered after a 2023 to forget, testifying that he can play leading roles and reiterating how 2022 was not a coincidence.
You can also judge favorably the performance of Fabio Di Giannantonio, which even without high notes is capable of achieving very respectable results. The Roman has shown that he has right of citizenship in MotoGP. He may not be a phenomenon of the caliber of Valentino Rossi or Marc Marquez, but that doesn’t mean he can be blamed for that. He did it at the end of 2023 and is doing it at the beginning of 2024.
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Instead they have been brutally downsized Marco Bezzecchi And Luca Marini. The first, an absolute revelation of the previous year, is keeping a totally anonymous profile this year. An impromptu podium and nothing more. It’s difficult to explain what happened. The context in which he chose to race is the same in which he reached the top of the MotoGP. Simply, he is sufferingeven the comparison with his teammate.
The second is the latest victim of the Honda collapse, now in rubble. A collapse that also dragged Joan with it Mir and Johann Zarco. Bar-sports ironies aside, we’re talking about a World Champion and a centaur who, riding a Ducati, knew how to be a permanent presence in the noble districts of the rankings.
On the subject of Ducati, 2024 Franco Morbidelli it is neither meat nor fish. Some light and many shadows. In his case, it makes you think that 2020 was in all respects a fairy season, no longer replicable. The Roman expert has the task of reversing a clear trend, in the hope that “it is never too late”.
