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Cycle News 2022 Issue 36 September 7

Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles

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ROUND 14 / SEPTEMBER 2-4, 2022 MISANO WORLD CIRCUIT MARCO SIMONCELLI / RIMINI, SAN MARINO P90 MOTOGP I FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP grounds of Aragon in Spain with Bagnaia now leapfrogging Es- pargaro up to second place, 30 points behind Quartararo, 211 to 181. Espargaro's third on 178 with Bastianini fourth on 138. Moto2 If you believe in sporting fairy- tales, they don't come much better than Alonzo Lopez's (+Ego Speed Up) first Grand Prix win at Misano. The 20-year- old Spaniard was on the couch was 11th. Andrea Dovizioso signed off his MotoGP career with 12th place on the WithU RNF Yamaha. Rounding out the points- scoring top 15 was Raul Fernan- dez (Tech3 KTM) in one of his best rides of the year, wildcard Stefan Bradl (Repsol Honda) and Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Idemitsu Honda). The title race is now well and truly on as the series heads to one of Ducati's happy hunting of Suzuki's Alex Rins. Red Bull KTM's Brad Binder was eighth but was involved in a nasty first-corner collision in which he tagged Prima Pramac Ducati's Johann Zarco, sending him crashing into Pol Espargaro (Repsol Honda) and Ducati wildcard, Michele Pirro, taking all three out of the race. Ninth was Zarco's teammate Jorge Martin and 10th was Alex Marquez (LCR Castrol Honda). Miguel Oliveira (Red Bull KTM) Alonzo Lopez was sublime at Misano for a first Moto2 GP win.

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