After years of work, the Catalan reaps the rewards of a strong and competitive RS-GP and emerges as Fabio Quartararo's main rival for the 2022 MotoGP title
Aleix Espargaró took advantage of the first 11 rounds of the 2022 season to change his status in MotoGP. If before he was labeled as a supporting player, today the Catalan is an illustrious protagonist, the rider closest to threatening Fabio Quartararo's bi-championship.
In the 12th season of his MotoGP career, Aleix managed to drive the Aprilia to the top and took advantage to win the first victory of his career in Argentina. And it was not by chance. After the dominant weekend in Termas de Río Hondo, Pol's brother was always among the frontrunners and took another four podiums.
Before the vacations the eldest Espargaró came in very strong at Assen, but was hampered by a mistake from Quartararo and had to do a recovery race. In the Cathedral of Motorcycling, he gave another demonstration of the illustrious year he had and of the excellent moment he is living in MotoGP.
Juliana Tesser analyzes Aleix's good year so far and the new status of someone who often appeared as an extra on the grid, but who today emerges as quite a protagonist.
MotoGP is now on vacation and will resume on August 7th with the British GP at Silverstone.GRANDE PRÊMIO is following all the activities of the 2022 MotoGP World Championship.