Why the 2022 MotoGP season had a bittersweet ending

Newly-crowned champion Francesco Bagnaia ended 15 years of pain for Ducati as the 2022 MotoGP season drew to a close in Valencia. But as Lewis__Duncan explains, a final victory for the departing Suzuki team tinged the campaign’s finale with sadness 📝

MotoGP did its best to drum up hype for the 2022 season finale. But few believed the championship battle would go any other way than to Ducati and Francesco Bagnaia. That didn’t stop the Circuit Ricardo Tormo being enveloped in a bundle of nerves and anticipation half an hour before lights out.

Outgoing world champion Fabio Quartararo qualified four places ahead of Bagnaia and had the best race pace after practice. If he could convert that to the holeshot and get away at the front, maybe the occasion would have led to Bagnaia making yet another error this year to add to his five DNFs.

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