The day Fabio Quartararo was shipwrecked: no points and (almost) no World Cup

• Classification This is how the World Cup goes

Two points.

Just two points.

Or at least two points.

In fact all the same.

misses

the MotoGP World Championship and his advantage as leader no longer matters.

Beyond the points, are the sensations.

The golden boy, the phenomenon in France, the one who last year celebrated his first title brimming with confidence, serenity and firmness, is once again the insecure teenager that he was.

This Sunday in Thailand, the worst shipwreck of him.

Many races ago, since before the summer, I was already showing doubts.

His Yamaha, slower than the Ducati, did not evolve and Quartararo found it increasingly difficult for him to overtake.

"There are circuits where it is impossible," he confessed.

Despite this, his second title seemed a fact thanks to the income.

Leaving out

, an opponent with the same problems as him, the Frenchman had 91 points over

, the Ducati benchmark, and no one ever lost such a wide lead.

Today he has two of those points left.

Just two points.

Or at least two points.

Actually, he doesn't care.

Because Quartararo is in a labyrinth from which he will hardly be able to get out in the next month.

Disappointed with his Yamaha and the lack of top speed in recent races, the Frenchman has been losing confidence until he has moved away from the top positions.

Only in one of the last seven races has he been close to the podium, in the rest he finished very far.

What's more, this Sunday, in Thailand, he didn't even score.

His performance was a disaster in every way.

After the rain, on the grid he was seen gripped, very nervous, and when leaving, in the first corners, a small scare left him at the tail of the peloton.

Seventeenth.

Lost.

Shortly after he was encouraged to attack and placed fifteenth, in points, in a progression that could have allowed him to save himself, but the opposite happened.

Halfway through the race he brushed the fall, dropped to seventeenth place and stayed there, watching the season go by.

Bagnaia, third

His only consolation, as happened in the two previous races, was that Bagnaia was unable to win and, therefore, he retained the leadership of the World Cup.

The Italian, brave in the wet, looked for him, but

and his teammate

left him in third position.

In the last laps he could even lose the podium, but another Ducati teammate,

, braked to avoid overtaking him while Marc Márquez finished the race in fifth place.

Crossing the checkered flag, while other drivers celebrated, Quartararo went into his garage, passed by the chair in which what happened with the mechanics is normally analyzed and secluded himself in his motorhome.

In only three races (Australia, Malaysia and Valencia) he must change his pace.

He has it hard.

Although at least he has two points.

Or he only has two points.

In any case, the World Cup is now divided into two points.

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