Rinning Ways
Round 10 Ciudad del Motor de Aragon, Spain, 16-18 October 2020 MotoGP World Championship
AS 2020 HAS passed from spring to autumn, we’ve learnt to take nothing as a given. Take the health of the sport’s biggest and best, for example. Valentino Rossi (Monster Energy Yamaha) was absent here in light of Covid-19’s highest-profile MotoGP casualty, meaning no premier class champions were present on a premier class grid for the first time in 21 years.
In his absence there were further upsets. Sunday’s race consisted of a three-way fight for honours, just with none of the three pre-race favourites present. The Ecstar Suzukis of Alex Rins and Joan Mir flew, while Alex Marquez (Repsol Honda) produced his second astounding ride in seven days. All while pole sitter Fabio Quartararo (Petronas SRT Yamaha) dropped down and through the field,
