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There is almost the entire World Championship, 16 races, and the unknown remains about the return of

Marc Márquez

, attending to his performance this Sunday, a seventh place and tears of emotion at having finished the race. But MotoGP finds itself in a new situation, something that it missed last season. A leader, finally one,

Fabio Quartararo

, is

moving

ahead towards the title and this time it seems that he himself will not get out of the way. Only an adversary will be able to do it and nobody - again the question of Márquez - is supposed to be ready.

After his victory in Qatar, the Frenchman chained a second victory in Portimao and did so with an improper government of these times in the category. With four seconds of advantage he finished and that his last laps were honorable: if there had been an audience, he would have dedicated himself to saying hello. One rider, only one,

Álex Rins,

dared to follow him and ended up against the asphalt in the effort. With another fall, that of the until now leader of the World Cup,

Johann Zarco

, Quartararo placed himself at the top in the classification and opened a pleasant distance: the second is now

Francesco Bagnaia

, with 15 points less than him. [This is how the World Cup goes]

"I feel that I am finally back, that I have full confidence," said the Yamaha rider after celebrating his triumph as

Cristiano Ronaldo

- he is a Juventus fan - and before taking the podium. His statement, in this case, was not empty. A year ago he already had two victories at the beginning of the year and then he lost because of the pressure. This time, as he acknowledges and as his environment always underlines, he has prepared to be singled out as a favorite, even as a possible champion, and that this does not affect him. Now is not the young revelation. Now it is the benchmark.

Of course, you need to solve a problem. His Yamaha accelerates exaggeratedly slower than the rest of the motorcycles and that, which in the race can be solved with a very fast cornering, at the exits is a slab. It already happened in Qatar and it was repeated this Sunday in Portimao. Quartararo fell from pole to sixth and, from there, had to struggle. A touch with Álex Rins, overtaking to the limit to

Joan Mir

or

Jack Miller.

... a series of shocks that the Frenchman could have saved thanks to his unbeatable position on the starting grid.

He was accompanied on the podium by two riders, Bagnaia and Mir, who are not the fastest, but the most reliable of their teams.

Bagnaia can be overtaken by his teammates in Ducati, Zarco and even Miller and Mir is usually overtaken by Rins, but both always finish among the best and that ensures them a good place in the World Championship.

A place that, in fact, Mir served last year to take the title.

With Quartararo at this level it will be difficult for them to argue with him, but almost the entire championship remains and they will be there.

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