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2016 Aragon MotoGP Post-Race Round Up: How Championships Are Won & Lost

Submitted by David Emmett on

Momentum. That's what the last race before the Australasian triple header is all about. Momentum heading towards the end of the championship. Coming out on top and carrying it forward to Motegi, Phillip Island, and Sepang is vital. The deal may get done on one of the flyaways, but Aragon is the place where the riders put their chips on the table.

All three races on Sunday had a huge impact on the MotoGP championship. In the first race of the day, a title was settled. In the second race of the day, the championship was blown even further open. The final race of the day saw another brick hammered into the wall of Marc Márquez' third MotoGP title, and further cemented his legacy. It was a good day's racing.

There are a lot of ways to win titles, but the way the 2016 Moto3 championship was settled was about as fitting as it could be. At the end of a classic Moto3 race, where a strong group battled for control until the final four laps, four men broke away from the pack. That group consisted of Brad Binder, the two men who could still mathematically challenge Binder for the 2016 title, Enea Bastianini and Jorge Navarro, and rookie revelation Fabio Di Giannantonio.

Editor's Blog - Aragon Round Up Delayed Due to Ill Health

Submitted by David Emmett on

The round up from Sunday's three races at the Motorland Aragon circuit has been delayed. Ill health (nothing serious, just a severe bout of flu, and not of the 'man' kind) means I am unable to concentrate sufficiently to produce the quality of work my readers expect and deserve. The aim is to have the round up on the website on Tuesday.

My sincere apologies for the inconvenience and delay.

2016 Aragon Moto3 FP3 Result: Quartararo Back On Track

Submitted by Zara Daniela on

Besides the extra rays of sunshine opening the proceedings on Saturday morning, it looked like the recent contract announcement helped Fabio Quartararo find some more focus on track, the Frenchman in good form to keep it within track limits and top the session by a slender margin ahead of Brad Binder.

Within a tenth of a second of the two was also Jorge Navarro, followed closely by Juanfran Guevara in fourth position. While these names were highly predictable at the top of the standings after the first day of practice, a surprise came from Nicolo Bulega, the Italian finding over a second to jump some fifteen places from Friday. His teammates also had a good morning, Lorenzo Dalla Porta in seventh and Andrea Migno ninth.

2016 Aragon Moto3 FP2 Result: Binder Sneaks Ahead

Submitted by Zara Daniela on

Neither the several hours of track action nor the lunch break did much to change track conditions for the small class, the youngsters struggling to get faster than the morning session.

Brad Binder was the first to beat the FP1 benchmark early in the session and shaved off another half a second in his final laps. Perhaps surprisingly, Andrea Migno was his closest challenger in the end, the Italian nowhere in sight during the morning session but a late lap behind the championship leader helped him find about two and a half seconds.

2016 Aragon Moto3 FP1 Result: First Blood To Navarro

Submitted by Zara Daniela on

For such an unpredictable class, practice sessions always start oh-so-predictably this season. Jorge Navarro, Brad Binder and Enea Bastianini were fast from the start and let the other play catch up as they struggled for grip on a dirty track.

In the end Navarro stayed on top as the only rider lapping under the 2-minute mark, Juanfran Guevara almost four tenths down on the leader. Bastianini finished a mere two thousands of a second back with rookie Aron Canet keeping really close as well.

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