The MotoGP series visited Aragón this weekend. This is, perhaps, the favorite track of championship leader Marc Marquez (Ducati), and he did not disappoint.
Marc Marquez started with pole position (and a new lap record) and then proceeded to win both Saturday’s Sprint race and Sunday’s GP.
On Saturday, Alex Márquez (Ducati) came home second behind his brother, followed by rookie Fermin Aldeguer (Ducati).
Sunday’s podium again found Alex Márquez in second, followed by Pecco Bagnaia (Ducati) in third place.
The Marquez brothers are distancing everyone in the championship points race with Marc currently in first and Alex second. For full results and points for Saturday’s Sprint race, visit the MotoGP site here. For full results and points for Sunday’s MotoGP race, visit the MotoGP site here.
It was the least exciting race I have watched in a long time. KTM tried to make it interesting with Acosta trying to steal 3rd place from Pecco a few times early on but was passed back immediately and soon a gap was formed. Parade laps after that and you had to go back into the field to see anyone working on a pass.
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I surfed around a bit and found that with with rare exceptions the Spanish GP is usually less than stellar. I wonder is Spain has another suitable track.
If a track rarely has a good race, well…
If I were a billionaire I would like to try my hand a designing a racer’s race track. I learned a lot about track design building and maintaining my ice race tracks. I guess a couple of key bullet points would be to.
1. Never make the fastest line through a corner approach the inside edge on the track. This both preserves the track itself and makes every corner a passing opportunity. Most road race tracks fail at this on every corner. They should build the track and host a dirt track race on it just to put it to the test before try ever pave it. I always laid my tracks out and hot lapped them a bunch of times to establish a racing line. Then I would move any snow bank that the line got near.
2. Never make any corner less than 90 degrees. That just effectively narrows the track. Even 90 can be a problem sometimes.
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Anyone know anything about this Fermin guy? Vermin with an F, gotta like like him. Seems like a scrappy youngster.
I take it from the lack of comments that the race wasn’t anything to write MD about.
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