RiderTua.com – Enea Bastianini is ready to welcome the third round of MotoGP 2024 in Texas after climbing the podium in Portimao. In Austin everyone had to face Marc Marquez who was always strong there.
A positive start to the season for Enea Bastianini who knows he has a lot to fight for in the first part of the season. Fifth place in Qatar, second in Portugal, 39 points in the standings which equates to provisional third place and allows him to overtake teammate Pecco Bagnaia, who was dropped due to the incident at Turn 5 of Portimao with Marc Marquez.
Enea Bastianini Ready to Challenge Marquez: He’s Always Strong in Texas
The rider from Romagna from the Lenovo Ducati team has a great desire to forget the difficult year 2023, a year marked by two injuries. At the Portimao track last year he suffered a serious shoulder blade injury after contact with Luca Marini. On the second weekend of the season, he made a mistake early in the Sprint that hampered his bid for a podium finish, but on Sunday he was nearly perfect. Too bad Jorge Martin couldn’t be reached. “The start was good but Jorge was better and he immediately led the race. I chased Maverick Vinales for a few laps until I overtook him in the final stages of the race. Last year I was hospitalized and now I’m on the podium in Portimao, that’s never happened before .”
Right at the fifth corner, an incident that was widely discussed between Marc Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia occurred, but it happened behind Bastianini, so he only found out about it in the race video replay… “Unfortunately in MotoGP at the moment overtaking has become more difficult and contact is frequent happened, but I can’t say for sure what happened,” said Bestia…
Comments are useless, we have to look ahead, to the next round of the MotoGP championship in Texas, in a week. “As for Austin, I have good memories of 2022, because I had an injury last year. It was my favorite win of the season and it’s nice to be back there, but I also know that there we have to face Marc Marquez, who is always strong on that circuit,” he concluded.
