Bastianini beats Bagnaia in an Aragon GP marked by Márquez's uneventful return

Fabio Quartararo wanted Marc Márquez to come back to lend him a hand, but his wish turned into a nightmare when the man from Cervera –inadvertently– threw him to the ground in the third corner of a high-voltage Aragón GP.

Both impacted on the first lap of the race, after a scare from the recent returnee, and left the Ducati squad free, led by a cheeky Enea Bastianini who overtook his theoretical leader, Pecco Bagnaia.

On the last lap, with a carefully prepared pass, he achieved his fourth win of the year on a championship day for the brand from Borgo Panigale.

The onslaught of the current champion and still leader of the contest knocked him out, with back pain and a good burn on his chest included, at the first change.

The incident also left 93 without options, which while going back to the pits to remove his damaged bike, somewhat distracted observing his rear end stuck by the impact, hit Takaaki Nakagami and also sent him to the ground.

“I feel bad for Taka and, above all, for Fabio.

The World Cup is being played and I know how you feel when this happens to you.

They are races and they are things that happen”, conceded the Repsol Honda rider, resigned to his early abandonment.

The Frenchman, as if that were not enough, had another accident when the motorcycle of a commissioner who was returning him to the

He collided head-on with another at high speed: "We almost killed each other... the only joy of the day was given to me by Beast."

VERY DANGEROUS!

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The accident between @ marcmarquez93 and @ takanakagami30 that made us hold our breath

. Incredible how all the pilots manage to dodge the Japanese pilot!

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– DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) September 18, 2022

After Marc's eventful first lap, Bagnaia was told that he had a free hand to take a good bite in the World Cup standings, although he intended to accumulate his fifth consecutive victory –something that only Rossi and Márquez have achieved– and he could not celebrate the result in style.

In five races, the Turin native has cut 81 points from the Yamaha benchmark and is only 10 behind with five races to go.

An Aleix Espargaró also fished in a troubled river who knew how to do his thing and gave a crush to the meritorious Brad Binder –fourth with the KTM– two laps from the conclusion to get on a podium that tastes like glory.

He also cuts points from the leader of a contest that now reaches the tight Asian tour with many open fronts.

Although he did not intend to be in this way, as a judge of a title that does not go with him, Márquez turned out to be the great protagonist of a day of sparks, with all the action concentrated in the first and last laps of the MotorLand circuit in Alcañiz.

“In MotoGP you never know what is going to happen”, warned Espargaró.

And he was not wrong.

Acosta shines and Guevara widens his margin in the championship

Pedro Acosta rode with authority and achieved his second victory in Moto2 ahead of Aarón Canet and Augusto Fernández, a little more leader of the championship after finishing ahead of Ai Ogura, his main rival for the title, to the joy of the public with the triplet Spanish.

The man from Madrid, raised in Mallorca, now has a seven-point margin over the Japanese.

In Moto3, Izan Guevara completed a perfect race in Aragón and took advantage of the puncture of his main rivals for the crown to extend his lead in the table.

After his fourth victory of the year, and no defeat on Spanish soil, the 18-year-old talent from Palma has a 33-point margin over his teammate Sergio García Dols, 13th in Alcañiz, and 58 over the Italian Dennis Foggia (14th).

Local dominance at MotorLand has been overwhelming since the circuit's debut in 2010:

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