#JapaneseGP gara<\/i>. Enea Bastianini<\/b> put together a good comeback in the fifth-last race of the season, which took place at the iconic Twin Ring Motegi. The rider #23, who opted for a soft tyre at the rear-end in what was a warm Sunday afternoon and did well in managing a difficult race and securing a top-ten finish.<\/p>\n
The encounter itself was a challenging one for all the other top protagonists: from Expargar\u00f3 who started the race from pit-lane to Bagnaia down on the last lap, but also with the leader in the standings \u2013 and reigning champion \u2013 Fabio Quartararo only eighth at the chequered flag. All of the above translates into Bastianini now only 24 points shy of the top three in the riders\u2019 standings.<\/p>\n
It was a good GP also for Fabio Di Giannantonio<\/b>, who was 17th<\/sup> at the finish line on a track that saw him even down to 24th<\/sup> place in the only dry session held this weekend (FP1 on Friday). The Italian rider managed to gather plenty of data to analyse with the team ahead of the next races for this Asian-Oceanian tour, which continues with the Thai GP at Buriram in less than a week\u2019s time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 9<\/b>th<\/sup><\/b> – ENEA BASTIANINI #23\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u201cIn the end we did a good race. I didn\u2019t manage to make the best use of the soft tyre at the beginning, which could have given us a little more performance-wise. We were lapping consistently in the low 1\u201946secs and we gathered some important data. It wasn\u2019t easy to pass Pecco as he was braking very late; in the final part of the race, with the tyre wear there was not much I could do. It\u2019s a shame that we started from way back.\u201d<\/p>\n 17<\/b>th<\/sup><\/b> – FABIO DI GIANNANTONIO #49\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u201cIt was a positive race, because with such little time in the dry we were still able to defend ourselves. We improved under braking and in cornering, and I was also able to make a few overtakes\u2026 Too bad for a small technical issue that prevented us from showing our full potential \u2013 which would have likely led to a few points. Generally speaking, however, we did a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" #JapaneseGP gara. Enea Bastianini put together a good comeback in the fifth-last race of the season, which took place at the iconic Twin Ring Motegi. The rider #23, who opted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-motogp-en","category-race-report-motogp-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n