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Cycle News 2024 Issue 10 March 12

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VOLUME ISSUE MARCH , P93 BY NEIL MORRISON PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE T here was enough in the Qatar performances of Marc Marquez (Gresini Ducati) and Pedro Acosta (Tech3 GasGas) to suggest the current MotoGP hege- mony won't last forever. Yet Pecco Bagnaia (Lenovo Ducati) under- scored his intentions to remain top of the pile as he started his second title defense in emphatic fashion under the Lusail floodlights. Bagnaia was largely responsible for taking the air out of this cur- tain raiser, making its final 10 laps something of an anticlimax. Was this really a new year, is Bagnaia re- ally a year older and is he really rid- ing the Ducati GP24 rather than the GP23? There were so many aspects of his weekend performance in Qa- tar that mirrored 2023. Friday was disappointing and Saturday was underwhelming. But, as he did on seven occasions last year, he saved his devastating best for the feature race when Brad Binder never got a sniff, even if he was never more than 1.3 seconds back. OPENER;

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