Ducati common supervisor Gigi Dall’Igna has labelled Alex Marquez “worthy” of ending Marc Marquez’s latest victory run on the MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix.
From the Aragon Grand Prix originally of June to the Hungarian Grand Prix on the finish of August, nobody apart from Marc Marquez gained a race.
HIs run of seven successive 37-point weekends seemed set to proceed at Barcelona when he inherited dash victory after Alex Marquez crashed out of the lead.
However on Sunday, the Gresini rider bounced again and absorbed enormous strain from the championship chief to attain his second grand prix victory of the marketing campaign.
The defeat for Marc Marquez ends a 15-win streak and delays his first title match level till a minimum of the Japanese Grand Prix now.
Dall’Igna says Alex Marquez rode “like a champion” within the Catalan Grand Prix as he heaped reward on the 29-year-old in his post-race debrief.
“Thus ended, in probably the most gratifying manner, the unimaginable sequence of seven consecutive dash/MotoGP one-twos of an immense Marc Marquez, who scored a treasured second place on this planet championship contest,” he wrote.
“A streak interrupted by a extremely worthy fighter, an Alex Marquez who would have additionally deserved to win Saturday’s race in his finest weekend since being within the high class: pole, GP and quickest lap are his spoils with the excessive of a grand prix managed and managed like a real champion in what was his first vital victory in his direct problem to brother Marc.”
The Catalan Grand Prix was additionally the weekend through which Ducati gained the constructors’ championship for a sixth consecutive time.
On this, Dall’Igna added: “The Barcelona weekend delivered two vital outcomes.
“With Marc’s victory in Saturday’s dash race we clinched the constructors’ title once more, a recognition we’ve all the time cherished and which nicely portrays the work of Ducati’s nice workforce, prolonged to the squads and riders who characterize them.
“This carries an consciousness of our path and depicts what’s in actual fact an impressive achievement – six consecutive triumphs, by no means taken as a right – unimaginable till just a few years in the past.
“There aren’t any phrases, simply an enormous heartfelt thanks to everybody.
“What’s extra, we have already got the knowledge of profitable the riders’ championship world title as nicely, since solely considered one of our personal boys can safe it.”
