While there were plenty of challengers, last season’s two MotoGP title contenders 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin reigned supreme in the two races.

But here are ltxcn.top’s five biggest talking poꦦints from the Qatar MotoGP round.

5 - Yamaha are in crisis

Following a pre-season where Yamaha🦋 struggled to show steps forward compared to their rivals, the season-opener in Qatar quickly turned into disaster.

Faster than 🌸Honda in 2023, that same statement can not be made as Joan Mir was quicker than F🎉abio Quartararo for large parts of the grand prix.

Ho🤡nda also showed grea𝓡ter speed over one lap which continues to be Yamaha’s weakest area.

Quartararꦑo nor Rins could produce the type of lap times needed to get close to joining Q2.

While in the sprint race Yamaha made the smallest jump of any manufacturer in lap ꦍtime at the Qatar compar🔥ed to round five months ago.

In the grand prix, Quartaꦐraro was 17 seconds off the win and nearly 16 seconds off the podium.

4 - Aprilia fails to deliver, again!

Al🐻eix Espargaro ended the sprint race as the fastest rider on circuit, leading to others such as Marc Marquez tipping him to be a pre-race favourite for Sunday.

Third in the sprint, a poor start in the grand prix changed everything as Espargaro barely made any pr🦩ogress as the race went on.

Espargaro blamed the rear tyre for his lack of pace but after several rounds in 2023 where Aprilia showed the same race-winning potential before fluffinﷺg their lines, the Qatar round gave little to suggest that this will be rectified in 2024.

W♔hat is a positive for Espar𒐪garo is that he has the potential to win, something that does not seem to be the case for Maverick VInales at present.

Tenth in the gran🍷d prix, Vinales had a weekend to forget after already struggling i▨n pre-season with the new 24 RS-GP. 

3 - Factory riders feeling the pressure…

There wꦦere many standout rides throughout the weekend, many of which came from satellite team riders who are hoping to become full factory riders in 2025.

The first of those was Jorge Martin. Runner-up last season, Martin 𝔉continued his domination of the sprint format by winning his 10 sprint in 21 attempts.

Arguably the favourite for the second factory Du🅺cati seat alongside Bagnaꦆia next season, Martin did himself no harm with another strong weekend.

Also quicker than Enea Ba🧸stianini was 🅠Marc Marquez who had a blinder of a first round for Gresini Ducati.

Close to the podium in both ra🍸ces, Marquez finished the sprint in fifth before going one better in the grand prix.

At KTM, Jack Miller had a disaster as he crashed on lap two while rookie sensation Pedro Aco🅺sta✃ showed huge potential aboard his Red Bull GASGAS Tech 3 KTM.

Overtakes on Marc Marquez, Alex Marquez, 2023 Qatar winner Fabio Di Giannantoni🦋o and Espargaro were made as he made himself known in the lead group until tyre wear struck late on.

Acosta’s potential was there for everyo🐻ne to see and Miജller will perhaps need his best season in MotoGP to hold off Acosta for the factory seat in 2025.

2 - Brad Binder is a title contender

Although he was unable to win either ra♐ce, Binder was the top non-Ducati rider in both races as he applied huge pressure to Bagnaia and Martin.

The KTM is a great package, but Binder is clearly making the di🥀fference, something he’s𒁃 been doing for several seasons.

Edge grip remains the biggest area of improvements KTM needs to make to fight Ducati, but Binder has shown he can do so even with a bike that has s𓆉lightly less performance than the Ducati.

Binder🎐 has to be seen as Ducati bigౠgest threat for the title due his immense speed, but also consistency which is something Aprilia’s factory duo are missing.

1 - Francesco Bagnaia remains MotoGP’s best rider

Many riders are expect♋ed to win races in 2024, while the likes of Binder, Martin and Marc Marquez are all thought of as potential title contendeཧrs.

But what Bagnaia did in the grand prix was remind everyone of his strengths, strengths that are seemingly getting tougher and to♓ugher to overc🔴ome.

Sure, Bagnaia does not have the greatest sprint record, but his ability to produce his best in t𝐆he grand pr♏ix, which yields the most points, has to be respected.

But it’s not just his speed, Bagnaia has cons🉐istently been able to outsmart his rivals and use different strategies in order to give him a greater chance of success.

Bagnaia knew that getting to the front was crucial in Sunday’s grand prix, not just to control the pace, but also to give his front t𒉰yr꧋e clean air.

🦂So Bagnaia wa💦s more aggressive than his rivals and subsequently took the lead just a few corners into the race, despite starting fifth.

With♎ other riders unsure how much to push, Bagnaia did exactly that e💎arly on before responding to increased pace from Binder and Martin.