As happened in Jerez, the leader of the championship and the Italian won after the Spaniard. Marc Marquez said goodbye to the World Cup with a tenth place.

It wasn’t just a day in MotoGP, even if it looked like it. six-time champion, Marc Marquez, finished the race, shed a few tears, received the umpteenth ovation from his mechanics and headed for the United States to undergo another operation on his right shoulder that crippled him. Again, goodbye. No one knows when he will return, it is also in doubt whether he will actually return or not. In Mugello, right in Mugello, where he was so hated, the World Cup bid goodbye to applause, whoever was its benchmark, its icon, its revolution.

The race continues, they continue, but without Marquez everything is different, something is missing. The championship has a void and only one candidate to cover it, although always partially. it is fabio quartaro, current champion and current leader. A delight was given with an unexpected second place this Sunday in Italy. There is no circuit faster than Mugello and no bike slower than their Yamaha and that is why they should have been in other positions, further back, less happy. The Frenchman saved the race with a podium finish and extended his lead in the general classification, but if that doesn’t completely cover Marquez’s loss, if he’s still not the media hook of MotoGP, it’s because he is human. a superhero, like so many, lately mike doohan, Valentino Rossi Or Marquez himself would have won the race; Quartaro settled for an excellent position.

Because he was closer to the winner, ‘Peco’ Bagania, and he never discussed victory. In the last laps, when both had escaped, Quartaro made contact with his opponent in the corner sections, but lost distance on the straight and was impossible. He needed a miracle, an exquisite change of pace, and he is not at that level yet.

Bagania and Quartaro entered like this