MotoGP Statistics Valencia 2022, Determination Of The Champion
JAKARTA - The 2022 MotoGP race has entered the final round. The winner will be presented at the valencia MotoGP, this weekend.
The decisive race will be held at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit, Valencia, Spain. This is the 25th Valencia GP event since it was first entered the MotoGP calendar in 1999.
Francesco Bagnaia only needed two additional points to become world champion. While Fabio Quartararo needs a miracle to be able to defend the title.
Bagnaia has valuable capital. He was the champion of the Valencia MotoGP race last season.
Bagnaia became one of four non-Spanish racers who won the Valencia race from 2007-2021. Apart from Bagnaia there were disputes Stoner (2008 and 2011), Andrea Dovizioso (2018) and Franco Morbidelli (2020).
MotoGP statistics notes that 12 premier class races in Valencia have been won by the hosts. They are Sete Gibernau (500cc/2001), Dani Pedrosa (2007, 2009, 2012, and 2017), Jorge Lorenzo (2010,2013, 2015) and Marc Marquez (2014, 2019) and Joan Mir (2020).
Yamaha tasted eight premier class wins there through Reegis Laconi (1999), Garry target (2000), Valentino Rossi (2004), Jorge Lorenzo (2010, 2013, 2015, 2016) and Franco Morbidelli (2020).
While Ducati enjoyed the top four podiums of Valencia thanks to the success of Troy Bayliss in 2006, banyak Stoner (2008), Andrea Dovizioso (2018) and Francesco Bagnaia (2021).
The Valencia GP was won by riders who started not from the front row three times, namely when Marc Marquez (2014), Dani Pedrosa (2017) and Joan Mir (2020) were the first to finish after each start from P5.
In Valencia, Bagnaia had a second chance to win his first world title in the premier class and became the first Italian to win a championship crown since Valentino Rossi in 2009.
Fabio Quartararo became Bagnaia's only rival. The Italian only needed to finish P14, even though Quartararo won the race, in order to become world champion.
On the other hand, Quartararo could defend the world title if he won this race and Bagnaia finished P15 or failed to score points.