Fabio Quartararo breaks the monotony and approaches his second World Cup

Next year in MotoGP there will be twice as many races.

The organization of the World Cup has invented a kind of sprint tests that will be held on Saturdays, which will have half the laps and will award half the points.

The objective is to make the championship more profitable and multiply the spectacle.

But that last goal is in doubt.

In the absence of knowing how Marc Márquez returns, motorcycling is still installed in monotony, orphan of stars and given over to aerodynamics.

There are no drivers who really provide a show and those who want to do so cannot because the speed is increasingly exaggerated.

This Sunday in Austria there was only one man,

, and a highlight: he overtook

to take second place.

The race was a

ride to victory, another one, the third in a row.

The Italian's style is reminiscent of the one that gave Jorge Lorenzo so much glory, although he lacks the regularity of the Spanish's best years.

He is a fine driver, attentive to detail, always on the line, infallible when everything works.

If in the middle of the season he had not added three almost consecutive retirements -two of them because of him-, he would now be the leader of the World Cup, there is no doubt about that.

But today the distance that separates him from Quartararo seems exaggerated.

The Frenchman's 44-point lead gives him a margin that at this point, at the end of August, with only seven races to go, should be enough.

Espargaró's slump

Even if he doesn't have the fastest bike, even if every overtaking is a pain, Quartararo is still the most talented on the grid and by far.

Bagnaia's excellent streak could worry him, but he still has circuits to his liking, like Misano, the next one, and the Italian will hardly continue longer without failing.

While the threat of

fades -this Sunday he finished in sixth place-, the Yamaha leader heads towards his second MotoGP title with few clouds on the horizon.

Next season he will have to demand more top speed from his factory, although it will not be to fight against a contemporary, but to do so against Márquez.

If the six-time MotoGP champion returns healthy, his duel will be interesting.

If they can't double the number of races or limit the aerodynamics, the interest in the World Championship will continue to wane.

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