Here a leader: Fabio Quartararo wins again and is already the favorite for the title

Marc Márquez

never names an opponent just because.

Although he is injured and no longer aspires to this World Championship, if the current MotoGP champion talks about another rider, he is competing, let no one doubt it, be it for the title of next year, the following year, or the next.

It may seek to pressure you, perhaps intimidate you, perhaps force you to doubt.

You may just want to remember your ascendant.

But if Márquez names an opponent, he has a reason and last Thursday he named

explicitly.

"I expected much more from Quartararo, because he won the first two races driving at a high level and now I don't know what is happening to him," reflected Márquez and his words were placed directly on the Frenchman's back, so poorly prepared at 21, in his second season in MotoGP.

The Honda leader increased the tension on a Quartararo in a bad streak and he responded this Sunday in Montmeló with a genius: there were neither indecisions nor failures, quite the opposite.

After winning the first two races of the championship and disappearing among many errors of his own and the occasional breakdown of his Yamaha, the Frenchman won again and regained the leadership of the World Championship with a wide margin.

"I have suffered a lot in this last month, it has not been easy for me on a mental level and I want to thank my family for their help to come back here," he acknowledged after a race in which his victory was certain.

A bad start put him behind

and

, but in the first ten laps he got rid of both - Rossi would end up falling - and opened a gap with the rest.

For a few minutes it seemed that Morbidelli would be able to discuss the victory, but finally it ended up being overtaken by the two Suzuki, by

and

, and even ran out of podium.

"I'm very happy," concluded Quartararo, who now has an eight-point advantage over Mir, 18 over

and 24 over

and is already the top seed for the title.

At the end of the day, its evolution this year is the only understandable when compared to Viñales or Dovizioso.

In the first two races at Jerez he found himself comfortable and won, but then, as he admitted, expectations hit him, that dreaded nickname of 'the new Márquez', and he missed more than necessary.

In Austria, he saved a miracle crash, in Misano he fell directly and in the next race, also in Misano, he did not comply with a penalty and was left without a podium.

Now, it seems, has matured what is necessary and heaven is open to him.

The rest do not know what to expect.

While Mir continues to surprise with his third consecutive podium, Viñales again suffered a lot with the grip of the tires and finished ninth and Dovizioso hardly even ran.

His lousy qualifying session forced him to start in seventeenth position and, at the expense of any mess ahead, a crash by

sent him

onto

the asphalt.

With six races to go, one can already conjure up why Márquez named Quartararo this week: perhaps he recognizes him as the next champion, that is, his direct rival in the coming seasons.

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