Bagnaia's Journey To Win The 2023 MotoGP Champion

Ducati Lenovo Team rider Francesco Bagnaia MotoGP 2023 world champion (Instagram/@pecco63).

JAKARTA Francesco "Pecco" Bagnaia's journey took place before winning the 2023 MotoGP title. He even stepped down from the top of the standings.

The Italian racer started the 2023 season well. Coming with the title of defending champion Bagnaia was able to occupy the first podium in the sprint race and the main MotoGP Portugal race.

These results made Bagnaia go home with maximum points from the first series. This is clearly a good sign for Bagnaia in an effort to maintain her title.

However, in the two Grand Prixs after that, Bagnaia actually failed to be consistent. He first had an accident in Argentina before experiencing the same thing in America.

Their second victory then came after the two poor results, to be precise the Spanish MotoGP. After that he took another seven podiums before the Indonesian MotoGP.

In detail, the first and second podiums were three and one third podium each. The only third podium in that period he got at the San Marino MotoGP.

At that time Bagnaia came in good health without any injuries even though Brad Binder ran over his leg in the previous Catalunya MotoGP series.

Bagnaia then arrived in Indonesia with a narrow advantage of three points over Jorge Martin. The Spaniard then won the sprint race and shifted Bagnaia from the top with a seven-point advantage.

In the main race Bagnaia successfully won the race so that he took over his position again. He sat comfortably with an 18-point advantage over Martin.

Bagnaia got the first match point after he recorded a 14-point lead after the Malaysian MotoGP. Unfortunately, the match point did not go according to plan at the Qatar MotoGP.

The distance of points with Martin in second place was running low to only seven. Luckily he was runner-up in Qatar's main race, widening the gap to 21.

In the final Valencia MotoGP series, Martin successfully won the sprint race and again reduced the points from Bagnaia to 14 points.

Unfortunately, Martin then fell in the main race so that Bagnaia automatically got the title.

The 26-year-old racer is now equal to Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez as the drivers who have won back-to-back since the MotoGP era which began in 2002.