After qualifying down in fifteenth, nobody really expected Fabio Quartararo to walk away from Misano as the MotoGP World Champion. But he did. Because when Pecco Bagnaia lobbed his Factory Ducati at the tyre wall, at the same left hander that caught out so many riders over the weekend, he threw away all hope he had of taking his championship fight to the next round at Portimão. To be World Champion, all Fabio needed was a 51 point lead, coming out of Misano. He?s now got a 65 point lead. With only 50 points on offer with two races left (one win is worth 25 points) there?s no way, mathematically, he can be beaten. Fabio Quartararo is your 2021 MotoGP World Champion.

The Monster Energy Yamaha rider from Nice is the first Frenchman ever to become champion of the premiere class of motorcycle racing. In fact it?s the first time in 44 years that the premiere class has been won by anyone other than a Spanish, Italian, American or Australian. You have to go back as far as 1977 to find a winner that?s not one of those four nationalities; back to when Barry Sheene won the World Championship.
Fabio Quartararo

?To be honest, I still can’t believe what I achieved today… This feels so good! It wasn’t an easy race. On the first laps I saw Miller crash, but I thought it was Marc. Then I looked at the TV, and I saw that Marc was fighting with Pecco. Then I saw another red bike crashing. At that moment I wasn’t happy. I was just thinking ?Okay, P...