MotoGP arrives in San Marino: the Italian territory, the kryptonite and many winning horses

The end of MotoGP World Championship it is coming down on us in an irreparable way. Four almost consecutive Grand Prix hammering us relentlessly right after the summer break and are making things clearer for some and more uncertain for others. In MotoGP of course, if nothing strange happens Marc Márquez will add his third title and in Moto3 Brad binder will add his first crown. Their candidacies are quite strong.

Where there is not so much clarity is in the Moto2 fish tank. In the intermediate category Johann zarco had enough of an advantage to start thinking about dosing, but the awkwardness of the last two races (eleventh and twenty-second) has put a Alex Rins, who should be almost throwing in the towel, squarely in the fight at just 10 points.

MotoGP: the calculator kryptonite

Maverick Vinales Motogp Great Britain 2016

Try as you might, it is impossible to detract from the victory for Maverick Viñales at the British Grand Prix. It could have been a different tire choice, a weather that equaled the mechanics, a race with a change of bike in which I took risks with strategy or a multiple ration of falls in the top positions. But no, none of that.

Epic unmitigated. This is how Maverick Viñales was at Silverstone to return Suzuki to victory from Le Mans 2007

Viñales triumphed at Silverstone in a superb, uncompromising way, with a career as a mature and winning driver. He knew how to come out well and get ahead, wait for his moment and make the few overtakings that he had left to get ahead. He chose his tires well with a hard front and a medium rear, and although that combination might not seem ideal for pulling hard at the start of the race, he began to put seconds constantly Without anyone at any time being able to cut his advantage until he became the seventh winner of the year in MotoGP.

Some will say that the fight unleashed for the podium positions between Marc Márquez, Cal Crutchlow, Valentino Rossi and Andrea Iannone allowed Mack to escape, but watching the race with one eye on the broadcast and the other on live timing, the authority with which Viñales rose to his first triumph in MotoGP it was total. We still need to know if in the six races that he has left with Suzuki he will be able to repeat the feat, what is crystal clear is that with Yamaha in 2017 he will. For now, he has already overtaken Dani Pedrosa in the general classification to place himself fourth.

On the other hand, I am very pleased to see how the clouds that darkened the MotoGP sky almost a year ago since the Malaysian Grand Prix (or earlier) have vanished. At the beginning of the 2016 season, we all held our breath when we saw Marc Márquez and Valentino Rossi dispute a position on the track, but no longer. In addition to being able to breathe easy, two of the greatest drivers have given us one of the most entertaining duels of all of 2016 at Silverstone.

After the last races and how little successful Lorenzo has been in the last races (a zero in Catalonia, tenth in Germany, fifteenth in Holland, seventeenth in Brno and eighth in Great Britain) with the exception of third place in Austria they have allowed that Valentino Rossi placed second overall, but very far from Márquez.

HRC pilot treasures 210 points by 160 from Rossi, a 50 lead after the British race. With such an advantage, Márquez could relax a little, in fact many have pointed out for some races that since he does not need to risk he has allowed better results to pass. Well, the numbers are there and except for the thirteenth place in France, their worst result has been the fifth place in Austria. Three wins, three seconds, three third and one fourth make up the MotoGP leader's record in 2016.

Precisely the fourth place was at Silverstone, in a race in which he did not give his arm to twist at any time and in which the batteries of the calculator lost all their power when approaching Valentino Rossi. Italian is kryptonite for Márquez's tallying machine, it just doesn't work when the two are close and has a similar rhythm. And I think the result of this technological incident is the best we have seen this season. Don't you think