MotoGP facts and figures update
At the Dutch TT, Francesco Bagnaia won MotoGP for the seventh time and for the third time this season with Spain and Italy, becoming the second Ducati rider to win Assen in MotoGP alongside Casey Stoner in 2016. 2008, also from pole position.
This is Bagnaia’s seventh victory with Ducati and he is now alongside Loris Capirossi in third place on the list of the most successful Ducati riders, behind Casey Stoner (23) and Andrea Dovizioso (14).
With Bagnaia and Marco Bezzecchi, this is the 17th MotoGP race in a row with at least one Ducati on the podium (since last year’s Aragon), equaling the Bologna factory record set from Turkey / 2007 to Qatar / 2008.
Bagnaia’s victory at the Dutch TT is Ducati’s 199th crowning in the first division. With Marco Bezzecchi P2, the Italian factory has now reached the milestone of 200 top-class podiums. The class record is held by Honda with 856.
In addition, Bagnaia gave Italy the 700th on the top podium (they also hit 701 with Marco Bezzecchi). Italy takes the lead ahead of Spain on the top 526 podiums.
Rookie Bezzecchi finished second at the Dutch TT for his first first-place podium, becoming the 46th different Italian driver to stand on the podium in his class.
At the Dutch TT, Maverick Viñales finished third on his first podium since he joined Aprilia and took the podium for the first time in MotoGP since the Dutch TT last year, almost a year ago.
With Bezzecchi and Viñales, there have been 13 different riders on the podium in MotoGP so far this season, twice less than in 2020 and 2021; 15 is the most podium finishers in a top-flight season since 1977 when there were also 15 podium finishes (first-place record: 21 in 1969).
With Bagnaia (Ducati), Bezzecchi (Ducati), Viñales (Aprilia) and Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia), this is the first top 4 without a Japanese producer since the 1972 Nations GP at Imola (50 years ago) with Giacomo Agostini (MV Agusta), Alberto Pagani (MV Agusta), Bruno Spaggiari (Ducati) and Paul Smart (Ducati).
With Fabio Quartararo knocked out in Assen, only one rider has scored in all 11 MotoGP races this season: Aleix Espargaro.
Joan Mir finished eighth as the top Suzuki racer and the first rider on a Japanese bike, the first time no bike from a Japanese manufacturer made the top seven. in a top race since Opatija in 1969.
Andrea Dovizioso finished 16th at Assen as Yamaha’s top (and only) racer, the first time without Yamaha in a top race’s score since the 1994 German GP.
Since the opening race of the year in Qatar, with the exception of the Portuguese Quartararo / P1-Spain / P2 and Catalunya / P1- Germany / P1, all the winners have failed to finish in the top 10 in the race. race later. For the first time this season, Quartararo joined this club: P1 at the Sachsenring to beat Assen.
