Ducati’s winning logic related to the rider’s starting number stopped at number 89 after Ducati’s 93rd victory was won by racer with starting number 63, Pecco Bagnaia. Since Saturday, we itself has dared to predict that Pecco will be the winner in the Mugello main race. . It’s nothing. Based on the data, if Pecco has a good setup, the race pace will be very consistently fast even though it smells like Metronome. Apart from that, because he is very confident in the GP24 that he is racing, he can seem to be playing with the race pace. . He can reverse, he can also step on the gas. . In the sprint, Marc Marquez was the victim. In the main race, it was Martin’s turn to be bullied. Apart from that, Enea Bastianini also appeared very smart in this race. . Not wanting to be provoked when he was first passed by Marc Marquez, he managed to hit the hammer at half-way through the race, but also finally managed to prank Martin’s figure at the last corner of Mugello so that in the end he made the 12th MotoGP podium for Enea and Ducati Lenovo to finish 1-2 on their home ground.
BTW, Over the first seven Grand Prix races of 2024 until Mugello, the average margin of victory in MotoGP was 1.042 seconds, which remains the lowest in the MotoGP era. With the victory at Mugello, Francesco Bagnaia is the first rider to win consecutive MotoGP Grand Prix races in a season since he did so in 2022 with four consecutive wins from Assen to Misano. With Bagnaia, Enea Bastianini and Jorge Martin on the podium, this is the fourth MotoGP Grand Prix race in a row with three Ducati riders making a clean sweep of the podium.
This is Bagnaia’s 22nd victory in MotoGP, all of which he achieved with Ducati. Now he only has one race less than MotoGP legend Casey Stoner, who is the most successful Ducati rider in his class.
This is also Bagnaia’s 40th podium in MotoGP, all with Ducati. He is now level with MotoGP Legend Andrea Dovizioso in second place on the list of Ducati riders with the most podiums behind MotoGP Legend Casey Stoner with 42. This is also the 63rd podium in Bagnaia’s career at Grand Prix – his racing number before becoming #1
Bagnaia won the Italian GP at Mugello this year by beating his teammate Bastianini, who was the first Lenovo/manufacturer Ducati team to win 1-2 since Spain 2021, when it was Jack Miller who was ahead of Bagnaia. This is also the first factory Ducati team to win 1-2 at Mugello since 2018 with two MotoGP legends as Jorge Lorenzo won ahead of Andrea Dovizioso.
After the 7th Series race at Mugello, Martin still leads the drivers’ championship with 171 points, but the distance to Bagnaia is getting closer and is now only 18 points away. . Pecco has the potential to overtake Martin’s position in the next race weekend in Assen, Netherlands. . Even Marc Marquez, who is now 35 points away from Martin, also has the same opportunity, although it is more difficult. Ducati controls the Top 4 racers’ standings and Acosta is the highest non-Ducati racer in his position in the standings.
Ducati is increasingly firmly leading the manufacturing standings with a distance of 101 points to KTM in second place, while Honda is at the bottom of the manufacturing standings with a clear remaining 13 series. Ducati Leovo leads the team standings with 267 points and Ducati dominates the top-3 of the temporary team standings.
Jorge Martin leads the Klasmeen Satellite racers while with a fairly clear distance of 35 points from Marc Marquez followed by Acosta, Digia and Alex Marquez in the top-5 positions
In tune with the good combination of Martin and Morbidelli racing results in the first 7 races of the 2024 season, Parima Pramac Racing leads 15 points from Gresini Racing in the 2024 temporary satellite team standings
As for the race weekend itself, 156,676 fans watched the incredible Live Racing at the Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello during the 2024 Gran Premio d’Italia Brembo race weekend, making it Mugello’s second MotoGP event – ever!
