(Motorsport-Total.com) – Marco Bezzecchi has joined the list of MotoGP winners with his pole position at the Argentine Grand Prix. But there are other exciting numbers tied to the victory of the VR46 rider, who shared the podium with Ducati teammates Johann Zarco and Alex Marquez.
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119- Bezzecchi is the 119th rider to win a race in the Premier Division and the 34th in the MotoGP era since 2002.
26- Bezzecchi is the 26th Italian to win in Serie A. These 26 competitors have all won in the Premier Division.
23- Bezzecchi took Ducati’s first win at the Termas de Rio Hondo. It is the 23rd track that Ducati has won. The only two circuits on the current calendar where MotoGP has been raced and where the Borgo Panigale factory has yet to win are now Buriram and Mandalika.
12 – Bezzecchi is the 12th Ducati rider to win the premier class.
10 – Bezzecchi is the tenth premiere winner in the top division since the opening race of the 2020 MotoGP season in Spain. Since then, Fabio Quartararo, Brad Bender, Miguel Oliveira, Franco Morbidelli, Joan Mir, Jorge Martin, Francesco Bagnaia, Ina Bastianini and Alex Espargaro have also won for the first time.
VIII – Bezzecchi became the eighth rider to win in MotoGP, having previously won in both Moto2 and Moto3 – along with Alex Rins, Maverick Vinales, Brad Binder, Miguel Oliveira, Jorge Martin, Francesco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini.
2 – This is the second time, after Valencia in 2021, that Ducati has covered the entire podium in a Grand Prix with three riders.
1 – This is the first time in the MotoGP era that three satellite riders on bikes from the same manufacturer have shared the platform.
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