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It was brilliant wasn't it. No love lost between them and as future teammates will be very entertaining. I want Pecco to continue to fight back and bring this down to the wire, but I would have also liked to have seen Bastianini bring that Fausto Gresini livery into P.1 Parc fermé.LOTS of crashes this week. most bummed about Miller of cours.
but wow what an awesome few last laps from Pecco and the Beast!!!
Everyone opted for the medium rear and hard front I think. Hard front due to the hard braking zones. Four riders were toying with the notion of running the soft rear, which you can because Misano isn't particularly cruel to tyres, but in the end went with the rest of the grid. That's the great thing about Misano, it isn't a tyre circuit, so you can go pretty much balls out from the off because of that. Well almost - takes a few laps to get the hard front up to temperature and as we witnessed in Moto 2 in particular, a lot of early lowsides through trail braking - including Miller. I think seven riders were down in the first two laps - although three went in the turn 1 incident.
That result won't have done Viñales any harm whatsoever given that this is Aprilia's home race. Had good race pace all weekend.
Shout out to the mercurial Alonso López in Moto 2, who continues in his Lazarus like comeback having been written off in this paddock.
Watching on BT Sport, they had Frankie Chili in a trackside interview. Didn't recognise him at all, perhaps due to his Parkinson's disease. Very sad.