Pecco Bagnaia wins with another favor from Ducati and is one breath away from being champion

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Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! And so on and on, in a perfect definition of this World Cup.

He beat

in Malaysia and throughout the race there was a teammate of his,

, who didn't want to overtake him.

He has already passed in Thailand and Australia.

Ducati's dominance this season is directly proportional to the show offered.

The championship title was at stake and there was hardly any tension, overtaking, fun.

The best: that the championship is still alive.

The worst: that in the last race in Cheste, on Sunday, November 6, it will be very, very, very difficult for the emotion to be triggered.

Numbers are against uncertainty.

with 23 points

so he will be champion barring disaster.

There will only be surprise if the Frenchman wins and the Italian finishes fifteenth or worse.

A chimera.

Not so much because of the possible failure of Bagnaia, an option for any human, nerves always betray, it already happened to

in 2006. More because of the difficulties of Quartararo, who has not won a race since June, who suffers a lot from Cheste and who is overwhelmed by the superiority of Ducati.

This Sunday in Malaysia his success was surviving.

Three Ducati riders escaped ahead,

, Bagnaia himself and Bastianini and Quartararo, after overtaking

, had only one mission: to escape from more Ducati riders, especially

.

If he got past him, Bagnaia's wing.

If he beat him, the year is over.

But he endured, the Frenchman endured despite his hand injury and the fall in front of Martín prevented a last favor from a teammate to Bagnaia.

The World Cup is alive, although at the same time it is almost, almost, almost not.

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