Bagnaia scores as battle offers preview of ’22

MOTOGP

ALGARVE (PRT)

7 NOVEMBER

ROUND 17/18

Much of the Algarve Grand Prix weekend felt like a prologue to the 2022 MotoGP title battle, from new world champion Fabio Quartararo and Francesco Bagnaia battling for supremacy on the practice timesheets.

Bagnaia’s crash out of the lead at the Emilia Romagna GP in October already meant the title had gone the way of Yamaha star Quartararo by the time MotoGP returned to Portugal last weekend. But it would prove to be a race that would pose a major ‘what if?’. Bagnaia dominated the Algarve GP, while a crash for