Pecco Bagnaia is proclaimed MotoGP champion: the joy of the serious man

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A few punches in the air, a few tears on his Ducati and that's it.

is already a MotoGP champion and it is in his own way.

"He is a serious guy, always elegant," insist those who know him,

and

, for example, who were his team leaders, who promoted his career.

Not an extra gesture, not an extravagance, of course not recklessness.

Bagnaia celebrated his first title in the category as he won it: serene and restrained.

Never before had someone come back so much, up to 92 points compared to

, and never before had he done it as if nothing was happening.

In his favour, the Frenchman's mistake and the slowness of his Yamaha, but also his own attitude.

In June he arrived hopeless, far from the fight for the title, with four retirements in his account, and then he changed everything with four consecutive victories (Assen, Silverstone, Red Bull Ring and Misano).

In the last races he had moments to become unsettled, like in Alcañiz, when his teammate Enea Bastianini snatched the victory from him, or in Motegi, when he fell in a fight with Bastianini himself, but he kept calm until the outcome in Cheste.

This Sunday, on the Spanish circuit, his break was the reason for his victory.

For the first time in the entire World Cup, he met his opponent, Fabio Quartararo, and tried to decide for himself.

It was worth finishing in the top 14, but he wanted to stop the Frenchman, finish ahead, defeat him on the asphalt.

It was brave.

But it went wrong.

Both collided and a side fin of Bagnaia jumped into the air complicating the many remaining laps.

One by one he had to let rivals and even teammates at Ducati pass,

,

,

or

, and made him aware of his two advantages.

Up to fourteenth place he had a margin and, furthermore, Quartararo had few options for victory.

With an

unleashed ahead and the opposition of

and

, the Frenchman could not even get on the podium and Bagnaia, despite his eighth place, won the MotoGP title.

Another pilot raised in Spain

The end of a road for a pilot who is not who he seems.

Current leader of the Valentino Rossi pilots academy, due to his proximity to 'Il Dottore', due to his hugs this Sunday in Cheste, it might seem that Bagnaia was always under his protection, but nothing could be further from the reality.

Born in Turin, far from the Pesaro region, where Rossi is from, the already champion had to leave as a child to compete in Spain, at the hands of

and later, as a teenager, he was rescued by the Aspar team when nobody offered a contract.

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