The MotoGP season was officially closed on Tuesday with the valence testwhich in some way can also be considered the first date of the next course, because riders who change mounts, and in 2023 there are a few, they were able to taste their new motorcycles. With the exception of some test of a private nature, such as the one carried out this Thursday by Marc Márquez in the old Jarama, the members of the queen category are already on vacation. But that does not mean that the motorcycles have put the closure. Not much less. This weekend, in Indonesia, Spanish sport can add another world title to his varied collection. Alvaro Bautistawho already tasted these sensations in 2006 as 125cc championcan be crowned now in Superbikethe series derivatives, a championship that he leads with a comfortable advantage of 82 points over the Turkish Toprak Razgatlioglu.
Baptist will have three chances at Mandalika, the first already on Saturday. And if none of them were still enough, she would still have the last date in phillip island, the following weekend, also with three races. The landscape looks good. Only one Spaniard has won the World Cup in this discipline before: Carlos Checa, in 2011. The date also coincides with Ducati’s last titleso everything points to a historic year of the house of Borgo Panigale, that last Sunday recovered MotoGP reign with Pecco Bagnaia15 years after Casey Stoner’s crown. And now he can do the same in SBK, in this case with 11 years to spare. “This course we have the best bike in MotoGP and Superbike“, said a few days ago in AS the CEO of the factory, Claudio Domenicali. And she will be right. The reconquest of Ducati is worth double in 2022. Only the lace is missing.