The circuit of Barcelona-Catalonia is already prepared for the grand final for the 2024 MotoGP title. The event was going to be in Valencia, but the fatal laugh made it impossible for the motorcycles to turn off like every year on the circuit Chestelocated very close to the ground zero of the effects of DANA. An alternative scenario had to be found and Montmeló is going to witness the definitive fight between Jorge Martin y Pecco Bagnaia. The two once again take the outcome to the last appointment, something that the MotoGP World Championship has become accustomed to in recent times. This is going to be the third consecutive course in which the name of the winner of the queen class is decided in the final weekend.
The Moto3 champion has been there for many weeks David Alonsowhich was crowned in Japan with an almost insulting superiority; while in Thailand, with two Grand Prix still ahead, fue Ai Ogura the one who mathematically became the king of Moto2returning to Japan some of the shine lost in recent years. In Moto3 the runner-up remains to be decided, a position for which they will fight in Barcelona Dani HolgadoCollin Veijer and Iván Ortolá, while in Moto2 it is still pending to know the “rookie” of the year, an award for which they fight Diogo Moreira, Senna Agius y Deniz Öncü.
Small crumbs compared to what Jorge Martín and Pecco Bagnaia are at stake, which is nothing other than number one of the queen category. Martin arrives with 24 points advantage, so if he wins Saturday Sprint There would already be a champion, and the same would happen if at the end of that day he manages to put two more points ahead of Pecco, who only has to win everything and wait for a very big mistake from his great rival. They both know what it means to risk the title on the last date. Both were protagonists in the outcome of a year ago in Valencia, where the one who arrived in the lead was Bagnaia and he did not tremble. The Madrid native won the Sprint, but he crashed on Sunday and the battle was over.
Comeback in 2022
In 2022, Valencia crowned Pecco in MotoGP for the first time after a fantastic comeback over Quartararo in the second half of the course. Up to 91 points down In the classification came the one from Ducati, who little by little was eating up the Frenchman’s ground. Fabio arrived in Cheste with options, but he was forced to win, he didn’t, he finished fourth, and Pecco entered ninth to take off the pressure of that entire weekend and be the new champion. There began a streak of world championships decided in the last event that will continue this year. Before, Quartararo had won the title in 2021, but he did it in Misano, in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, when there were still two events left to end the season: the Grand Prix of Algarve and that of the Valencia Community.
A year earlier, in 2020, the title of Joan Mir, the one in which he only achieved one victory and where everything was marked by the recent covid epidemic and a confinement that forced the motorcycles to delay their starting time. The then Suzuki rider was crowned in Valencia, in Cheste, but on that occasion it was not the last event of the course, because he was still there was one more left in Portugal, on the Portimao circuit.
Bagnaia has won the last two titles and in both he has had to wait until the end to celebrate. Now he is looking for the third consecutive MotoGP World Championship, also in the last race of the season. In fact, their first mission is to survive Saturday, the Sprint in Montmeló, and risk it all on Sunday. Martín will have two match balls.
