Emilia-Romagna MotoGP: Quartararo wins the world championship, Marquez the race

Marc Marquez wins a dramatic Emilia-Romagna MotoGP after Francesco Bagnaia crashes from the lead, while Fabio Quartararo is your new MotoGP World Champion.
Fabio Quartararo, Emilia-Romagna MotoGP race, 24 October 2021
Fabio Quartararo, Emilia-Romagna MotoGP race, 24 October 2021
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Fabio Quartararo has won th𒐪e 2021 MotoౠGP World Championship following a crash for Francesco Bagnaia while leading the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, a crash that resulted in Marc Marquez winning his third race of the year.  

Although Jack Miller got a better launch and was side-by-side with Bagnaia heading into turn one, the ♑Italian was much later on the brakes and⛎ retained the lead. 

Mi🐻ller was also pasꦑsed by Miguel Oliveira, but the Ducati man regained P2 in turn four. 

Just beh🌜ind that was Marquez who made a brilliant start from seventh to fourth. Marquez then made it third by getting ahead of Oliveꦏira into turn eight. 

One man who didn’𒐪t get a great start was championship leader Quartararo as he lost two places. 

However, the Yamaha r♊iderꦺ soon found his feet and picked off Alex Marquez, Takaaki Nakagami and Johann Zarco. 

While the front three of Bagna꧅ia, Miller and Marquez began to pull clear of Pol Espargaro in fourth, Quartararo was then elevated into 11th as Miller crashed o☂ut at turn 15. 

Miller was the third rider to go down after꧃ early contact bꦫetween Joan Mir, who was given a double long-lap penalty due to jumping the start, and Danilo Petrucci made contact at turn two. Both riders were unable to rejoin. 

After moving up to tenth d𝄹ue to a mistake by Iker Lecuona, Quartararo ꦆthen made that ninth after a lovely move on Jorge Martin.

What was already a disappointing race for LCR Honda then got even worse as Nakagami and Marquez bo⛄th retired on the same lap - Nakagami due to a crash and Marquez because of a technical ꦰproblem. 

Tech 3 KTM joined LCR in having both riders out of the race as Lecuona✨ crashed at turn one. 

At the front, Bagnaia continueജd to lead from Marquez but the gap was only two tenths of a second. 

A great move by Alex Rins saw him get ahead of Franco Mobidelli for sixth a♉t mid-race distance, a move that began a drop of four positions for the Italian as Luca Marini, Quartararo and Zarco all got through. 

With eight laps to go Quartararo moved💝 up to fifth after back-to-back overtakes on Rins and Aleix Espargaro. 

A few laps after Bagnaia set his personal best lap, Marquez did the same to remaiജn within half a second of the Ducati rider.

A big moment at turn 15 then followed for Marquez as he lost three tenths to Bagnaia. However, just as Bagnaia looked to༒ be in complete control and pulling clear, the It♌alian crashed at the same corner as Miller.

Quartararo was elevated to fourth due to ဣBagnaia’s crash, before that then became third as Oliveira crashed from 🎃third. 

Marquez went on to win from Espargaro, while Quartararo narrowly missed ou🦂t on the podium after Bastianini got ahead of the Frenchman at turn 14. 

KTM rider Brad Binder had to start from the back of the grid after crashing on the sighting lap. After making progress through 🔜to 12th, the South African rider’s day went from bad to worse after being given a long-lap penalty.

Quartararo has also become the fi⛎rst ever French premier c🗹lass world champion. 

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