Bike: Quartararo dominates in Holland, rebus Vinales for Yamaha

The first half of the MotoGP season ends in the sign of Fabio Quartararo. In August the Frenchman will restart with 34 points of advantage at the top of the World Championship, increasingly leading after his fourth victory in 2021. He became the first Frenchman to win the Dutch GP, where Yamaha has packaged a remarkable double with Maverick Vinales, in pole position but slowed at the start by a clutch problem. Joan Mir celebrates an excellent podium, starting tenth on Suzuki, while Francesco Bagnaia is only sixth, protagonist on his Ducati for half the race in a spectacular head-to-head with Quartararo, up to the penalty received for having breached too many times from the track, almost simultaneously on with the accident of his teammate, Jack Miller. Even more disappointing was Valentino Rossi's race,off the track after 8 laps, while Marq Marquez with his Honda completes a comeback to applause, from twentieth to seventh. Quartararo also sparkles in the post-race celebration, when with a golf club it takes three attempts to hit a ball on the track. And patience for that right arm that bothers him, the same operation less than two months ago. "I had some difficulties but it is not because of the operation, with the triceps I struggled this weekend because the track is difficult. It was a bad feeling, in the first half of the race I was a bit scared. But I'm satisfied ", explains at the end the Frenchman, increasingly first in the general classification ahead of Johann Zarco, fourth today in Assen. On the other Yamaha, he runs towards a future in a certain Vinales,according to rumors from Spain intending to terminate the contract a year in advance to move to Aprilia in 2020. Is something going to happen? "I can say that I am very far from my potential, and with that I have said it all", cut short the person concerned. Yamaha's team director Lin Jarvis puts it this way: "For today we won't say anything about market rumors. I'm very happy that the holidays start tomorrow. We'll see. Now I have nothing else to add." It resumes on 8 August with the Styrian GP."For today we will not say anything about the market rumors. I am very happy that the holidays begin tomorrow. We will see. Now I have nothing more to add". It resumes on 8 August with the Styrian GP."For today we will not say anything about the market rumors. I am very happy that the holidays begin tomorrow. We will see. Now I have nothing more to add". It resumes on 8 August with the Styrian GP.