MotoGP Indonesia 2022 | Rider Ratings

Gold & Goose / Red Bull Content Pool
As per last year?s WSBK race at the new Pertamina Mandalika Street Circuit in Indonesia, yesterday?s MotoGP race was delayed, delayed and delayed again, thanks to biblical levels of rainfall. I suppose that?s what happens when you build a race track next to a rain forest. Anyway, a shortened 20-lap race finally got underway in very wet conditions, but it was no less thrilling for it. The boys at the front were pushing hard to lap within eight seconds of their dry qualifying times, frighteningly fast in those conditions. With Marc Marquez out of the race (thanks to a monster high-side in warmup) and the championship leader (Enea Bastianini) not even managing a top ten, the championship has closed right up; it?s shaping up to be a good season.
1st Miguel Oliveira 10/10
Gold & Goose / Red Bull Content Pool
Oliveira put on a bit of a masterclass in the rain yesterday. Apart from a last minute push from Quartararo at the end of the race (which was too little too late, anyway), nobody could hold a candle to him. It just goes to show that you can never count Miguel Oliveira out for the win, whatever the conditions. He was fast all weekend and didn?t put a wheel wrong all race, so it?s got to be 10/10 for the race-winning, KTM-riding Portuguese man. Obrigado.
2nd Fabio Quartararo 9/10
Although it was clear by the end of lap one that Yamaha and Quartararo had solved their wet-weather woes (when he took and early and...
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