The Dutch Grand Prix was a coup for Ducati authority, which he won with Pecco Bagnaia. The Italian took advantage of the fall of Fabio Quartararo, which involved Aleix Espargaró, to escape and vindicate himself in the world championship.
Statistics of the 2022 MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix in Assen
– Pecco Bagnaia got his seventh victory in MotoGP, the 17th in all categories.
– It is his third victory of the season, as many as Enea Bastianini and Fabio Quartararo, of the 11 Grand Prix contested to date.
– As he did in Spain, Bagnaia completed all the laps in the lead to win. At this point in the season, he has done 83 laps in the lead, compared to 76 for Quartararo. Both are far ahead of the rest of the drivers.
– On Saturday, Bagnaia had taken pole, tenth in the category and fourth in 2022. Of these ten poles, he has won one out of two and has been on the podium seven times. The rest of the time, he fell.
– You have to go back to 2008 to find a victory for Ducati in Assen, in this case by Casey Stoner . Since then, the Dutch GP had only been won by Yamaha and Honda riders.
– More generally, Ducati remains the dominator of the category, as this Grand Prix gave the brand a record 31st consecutive front row and 17th consecutive podium finish.
Holiday day for Marco Bezzechi and Maverick Viñales
– Marco Bezzecchi got his first podium in MotoGP, as did the VR46 team.
– Maverick Viñales got his first podium with Aprilia, precisely on the track where he celebrated his last podium with Yamaha a year ago.
– It was also Aprilia’s first podium finish in Assen, as their best result so far was seventh place.
– Aleix Espargaró came fourth at the checkered flag, equaling his best result on this circuit.
Aleix Espargaró overtakes Jack Miller and Brad Binder at the last chicane to take fourth place
– Aleix Espargaró now has more than twice as many points as last season at this point. With 151 points, he is assured that this World Cup will be the best in his 18 years as a World Cup driver.
– With the crash of Fabio Quartararo, Aleix Espargaró is now the last remaining driver to have scored points in all races. Luca Marini has also seen the checkered flag consistently since the start of the season, but not necessarily in the top 15.
– Franco Morbidelli and Darryn Binder also crashed, with Andrea Dovizioso finishing 16th. This ended a 28-year points run for Yamaha, which has failed to score a point for the first time since the 1994 German Grand Prix.
– In the previous race in Germany, it was Honda who took their first race without points for the first time since 1982.
– Historically low stats continue for HRC, who this time have not featured a driver in the top 11 of qualifying at Assen, which was a first since the current program began 40 years ago. In the race, for the third time this year, it was the only brand missing from the top ten positions.
The 2022 Dutch GP was 10 seconds faster than in 2021
– The track record was broken with a new benchmark time of 1:31.504, raising the average lap time to 178.6 km/h. Assen remains the sixth fastest circuit on the calendar, and the reference is the Red Bull Ring , with an average speed of 188.0 km/h.
– The best lap time in the race has also been broken, set by Aleix Espargaró at 1:32.500, an improvement of 0.369 seconds on the previous record. It is the second time that the Spanish rider has achieved the best lap time in a MotoGP race, the previous one being his victory in Argentina this year.
– The total time of the race was also reduced, as Bagnaia completed the 26 laps in 40:25.205, shaving 9.826 seconds off the time achieved by Quartararo last year.
– With 8.596 seconds difference between the winner and the tenth, this race has had the third closest top 10 in history. The current record is held by the 2021 Doha Grand Prix, with 5.382 seconds.
