Bastianini takes emotional win for Gresini
Mar 10, 2022
3 minutes
LEWIS DUNCAN
MOTOGP
LOSAIL (QAT)
6 MARCH
ROUND 1/21
The history of the Gresini Racing squad is one of immense highs set to a backdrop of heartbreaking tragedy. In 2003, in the opening round of the season at Suzuka, Gresini rider Daijiro Kato suffered an accident that would eventually claim his life. In 2011 Marco Simoncelli suffered fatal injuries in a Malaysian Grand Prix crash. And, at the start of 2021, Gresini Racing’s talismanic founder, double 125cc world champion Fausto Gresini, died after a battle with COVID-19.
Just weeks earlier he’d announced his plans to break
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