Bagnaia forgets his accident in Ibiza with a victory that returns him to the World Cup

'Pecco' Bagnaia

, or victory or disaster, who would say.

When he came to MotoGP he presented himself as a reliable rider, incapable of making mistakes, always ahead, but if he is champion he will be in a different way.

His last races have been frantic: four wins and three crashes, two of them due to flagrant errors.

This Sunday at Silverstone he won again and raised his candidacy for the World Cup: the two candidates,

and

They're not that far away anymore.

With eight races remaining, in fact, they are less than 50 points, two wins, a not so exaggerated distance.

Whether or not Bagnaia ends up competing for the title is now in his hands, because his Ducati is the fastest bike and he is the most skilled with it.

His credibility, his character, put to the test.

More after the summer lived.

A quiet man, a lover of cooking, of copying the gnocchi recipe from his mother

, a few weeks ago he was surprised by crashing a rented Citroen on the Ses Salines road in Ibiza, after having been drinking.

He was leaving a nightclub and went straight into a ditch without hurting anyone, fortunately.

There were other riders before, such as

, for whom similar incidents cost them the race, but Bagnaia came out intact without so much as a public scolding from Ducati.

The only toll on him: a few questions from journalists when he returned to the paddock.

"Three or four weeks have passed. It was a mistake I made, but it was easy to focus on MotoGP again," he assured, and he was right.

When I put the gas back on, it flew.

This Sunday at Silverstone he took advantage of the circumstances to dominate.

He was favored by the fall of

, who rode in the lead in the first few laps, and the problems of Quartararo and Espargaró favored him, the former weighed down by a penalty and the latter hurt after a crash on Saturday.

But he still had to impose himself.

He overtook

and

and in the last laps he held off

to secure victory, the first of his life at Silverstone.

"I would say it was the best victory of my life because it cost me a lot. It's never easy, but this time I had many difficulties and I managed to overcome them," analyzed the Italian, runner-up last year and who knows this season.

He was considered discarded in the World Cup, but Quartararo presents some doubts that did not exist not so long ago.

To his fall in Assen, the Frenchman added a strange, inexplicable episode this Sunday.

His start was excellent, he was second behind Zarco, and he successfully complied with the penalty he was dragging.

He did the 'long lap penalty' and fell to fifth place, nothing serious.

But from that moment everything began to fail and he was losing positions, he was losing positions, until finishing eighth with Espargaró threatening him from behind.

As happened at the end of last year, his Yamaha is getting slower and Bagnaia is getting faster.

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