Portuguese Portimao MotoGP 2022 Results, Winner, Riders And Teams Standings

Fabio Quartararo, the reigning MotoGP world champion, won a thrilling Portuguese Grand Prix to seize the championship lead when Enea Bastianini fell out, know the 2022 results and standings

Quartararo had not won a race since Silverstone 2021 last August, but on the fourth lap, he overtook early leader Joan Mir and romped to his first win of the season.

Mir blasted away from second on the grid to take the lead for the first time since his championship-winning season in 2020, while Quartararo jumped from sixth to third.

Pramac polesitter Johann Zarco was sandwiched between the two champions, but Quartararo snatched second from him into the Turn 3 right-hander as Mir surged nearly six tenths clear at the front.

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Portuguese MotoGP: Quartararo takes the lead in the Portuguese MotoGP with a comfortable victory.

Zarco was initially pushed back to sixth by factory Ducati rival Jack Miller and Alex Marquez’s LCR Honda, but he swiftly climbed back into the podium positions before the end of the second circuit.

2nd Lap:

On the second lap, Quartararo chipped away from Mir’s lead and was soon within striking distance, with the Yamaha rider making his move into Turn 1 on the fourth tour after nailing his run out of the sweeping downhill final turn and taking advantage of the Suzuki’s tow.

Quartararo quickly established a lead of nearly a second, which he would maintain while Mir fell back into Zarco’s hands.

At the start of lap 16, Zarco made a fruitless effort to pass Mir for a second, the Pramac rider going wide at the first curve.

But he made the pass stay the second time, forcing Mir to fight Miller for the final podium spot.

Miller would have a jump on Mir into the first curve as they began lap 19 of 25, but his Ducati would lose the front end under braking and crash out the Suzuki rider.

The event is being investigated by the race direction.

Aleix Espargaro of Aprilia was elevated to third as a result of this, with the Argentina winner early in the race locked in a duel with Alex Marquez, Miguel Oliveira of KTM, and a hard-charging Alex Rins on the second factory Suzuki.

Rins qualified 23rd following a strategy blunder in the wet-to-dry Q1 session, but he soared to 11th on the first lap and marched through the bottom half of the top ten.

Rins moved into fifth place on lap eight by picking Oliveira’s pocket at Turn 10 and going around the outside of Alex Marquez at Turn 10.

More Details of The Race:

At the front, Quartararo controlled the pace and was able to pull away from Zarco by more than six seconds at one point as he cruised to victory for the first time in his championship defence.

Zarco was challenged by Espargaro in the last circuits, but he held on to take his second podium of 2022, finishing ahead of the Aprilia rider.

Rins’ outstanding salvage work propelled him to fourth place, putting him in a tie for first place with Quartararo on points (though the latter leads by virtue of his victory).

Both are eight points clear of former championship leader Bastianini, who wrecked on the tenth lap while pushing for a spot in the top ten.

On his factory KTM, home hero Miguel Oliveira finished fifth, while teammate Brad Binder crashed out.

After a fierce duel for the lead for sixth in the closing stages, Marc Marquez defeated his LCR Honda-mounted brother Alex Marquez by 0.020s across the line.

In the early stages, the six-time world champion had a similar tight duel with teammate Pol Espargaro, but emerged victorious, while the latter was relegated to tenth behind Francesco Bagnaia on the Ducati – the two colliding on the penultimate lap at Turn 9.

After a big accident in qualifying, Bagnaia was cleared to race this morning.

Maverick Vinales on the second Aprilia completed the top 10, with RNF Racing’s Andrea Dovizioso, VR46 Ducati rider Luca Marini, Yamaha’s Franco Morbidelli, Tech 3 KTM rookie Remy Gardner, and Marco Bezzecchi’s sister VR46 machine claiming the last points.

Takaaki Nakagami finished 16th, ahead of RNF rookie Darryn Binder, after a collision, while Aprilia wildcard Lorenzo Savadori, Gresini’s Fabio Di Giannantonio, and Pramac’s Jorge Martin also crashed out.

Portuguese MotoGP 2022 – Results:

Rank	Rider		Points	Wins	Podiums
1		F. Quartararo Yamaha	69	1	2
2		Á. Rins Suzuki	69	0	2
3		A. Espargaró Aprilia	66	1	2
4		E. Bastianini Ducati	61	2	2
5		J. Zarco Ducati	51	0	2

 

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6		J. Mir Suzuki	46	0	0
7		B. Binder KTM	42	0	1
8		M. Oliveira KTM	39	1	1
9		J. Miller Ducati	31	0	1
10		F. Bagnaia Ducati

2022 Standings

Rank	Constructor	Points	Wins	Podiums
1	Ducati	106	2	6
T2	Suzuki	70	0	2
T2	KTM	70	1	2
4	Yamaha	69	1	2
5	Aprilia	67	1	2

6	Honda	44	0	1

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