Sponsor From Indonesia Hopes Enea Bastianini Can Win Again At The Mandalika MotoGP

Gresini Racing rider, Enea Bastianini, is expected to become a champion at the Mandalika MotoGP. (Doc. MotoGP official site)

JAKARTA - Gresini Racing's Enea Bastianini made a surprise by winning the Qatar 2022 MotoGP race. The Italian rider's achievement received appreciation from many parties, including the Indonesian sponsor, Federal Oil.

The sponsors also hope that Bastianini's success will not stop at the Losail Circuit. Federal Oil hopes that the rider can achieve the same result in the Mandalika MotoGP race, which will be held in two weeks.

"Enea Bastianini's phenomenal victory, and for the Gresini Racing team at the Qatar MotoGP, makes Indonesia proud because this victory is highly anticipated by racing fans," said Executive Advisor of PT Federal Karyatama & PT ExxonMobil Lubricants Indonesia Patrick Adhiatmadja in an official statement, as reported by Antara.

"Hopefully this winning trend can continue in the second series at the Mandalika MotoGP, in the next two weeks," he added.

Enea Bastianini performed exceptionally throughout the Qatar MotoGP race. Calm and deadly, that's the right word to describe the performance of the 2020 Moto2 champion.

Bastianini finished the race in 42 minutes 13.198 seconds, even scoring the fastest time of 1:54,337 seconds on lap 17, breaking Francesco Bagnaia's 2021 record with 1:54,491 seconds.

"I feel great at the moment. I tried hard from the start, but the most important thing was to save the tires for the end of the race," Bastianini said in his official statement.

"I saw Pol so fast up front, but I managed to overtake Binder and then at the end, once I was very close to Pol, realized that I could try to win the race."

"I passed him at Turn one and he went wide, so from then on it was all about staying in the lead and bringing home the win. It's hard to express how I feel right now but I want to dedicate the win to Fausto because he gave an incredible motivation from 'up there'," he continued.