Valencia MotoGP Rider Ratings: Francesco Bagnaia perfect on crowning day but Jorge Martin struggles

Francesco Bagnaia - 10
A stun꧅ning performance from Bagnaia on a day where carnage took place all around him. The now two-time world champion held his cool and after mistakes from Brad Binder and Jack Miller, both of whom were leading 💃at the time, managed to hold off Fabio Di Giannantonio who was quicker in the closing stages.
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Fabio Di Giannantonio - 9
Off the back of his maiden MotoGP win, Di Giann🌺antonio was superb as he had the strongest race pace in the closing stages. Very close to winning his second race, Di Giannantonio looked for a way through on Bagnaia at every corner, however, the world champion was brilliant in his defence.
Johann Zarco - 9
A brilliant ride to end his time with Ducati, Johann Zarco s𒀰pent most of the grand prix behind Bagnaia and struggled to find a way through. Zarco’s pace was very strong but he couldn’t hold off Di Giannantonio who squeezed past at turn four.
Brad Binder - 8
Without a grand prix win all season, Binder put himself in prime position to change that as he led following an overtake on Bagnaia. But the⛦ KTM rider ran wide at turn 11 and threw away his opportunity as he dropped to sixth. The South African managed to recover to fourth.

Raul Fernandez - 9
His best result as a MotoGP, Fernandez ꧟showed great pace, coupled with incidents ahead of him, in order to claim fiಌfth place ahead of Alex Marquez.
Alex Marquez - 7
Unable to match his team-mate, Marquez was set for a good result but struggled late on. Marquez was also shoved wide by a recovering Binder at turn four whic൩h didn’t help the Spaniard’s top fiv🌜e bid.
Franco Morbidelli - 7.5
On his Yamaha farewell, Morbidelli out-performed Fabio Qua🔯rt♈araro en route to securing his third seventh place finish of the campaign.
Aleix Espargaro - 6
After a difficult weekend and sprint race, Espargaro was faster than his team-matಌe but couldn’t secure a top f﷽ive for the sixth race in succession.
Luca Marini - 6
Another quiet race fo♏r the Mooney VR46 Ducati rider, Marini came home in a solid ninth position.
Maverick Vinales - 6
A strܫong sprint race for the Spaniard was not backed up in the grand prix as Vinales struggled late on.
Fabio Quartararo - 5.5
Quartararo was unable to replicate his ✅pace from🐭 the sprint but he did avoid crashing out, which was something a lot of riders failed to do.

Takaaki Nakagami - 3.5
The LCR man was the only Hond💫a rider to finish but he was more than 20𝓡 seconds off the race win.
Pol Espargaro - 3
Taking part in his last race as a full-time MotoGP rider, Espargaro was running 🍨down the order before crashing out at turn🏅 11.
Alex Rins - 3.5
Making 𒐪his return to actiꦗon before joining Yamaha, Rins was one of many riders who ended the main race in the gravel.
Jack Miller - 4
A very good performance before crashing out of the lead, Miller had a comfortable lead over Bagnaꦓia but suffered a heavy tumble at turn ten.
Jorge Martin - 5
Fantastic in the sprint race, Martin’s title hopes were alive aജnd beating before a mistake at turn one when following Bagnaia was the beginning of the end. Martin got caught out in Bagnaia’s slipstream and dropped down to eighth. The Pramac rider then put a move on Marquez but his the Honda rider which resulted in both riders crashing out.
Marc Marquez - 5
Out of the race through no fault of his own, Marquez was vicisiouly launched from his bike when Martin clipped him heading into tur꧙n fou💮r.
Marco Bezzecchi - 3.5
Bezzecchi was the first rider to crash out as he went down on lap one following an incident with𓃲 Marc Marquez.
Enea Bastianini - 4
Bastianini had a difficult sprint race before crashing out of the grand prix at turn one. A difficult end to the season for the🐭 Italian who still doesn’t know if he will be retained in the factory team.
Augusto Fernandez - 4.5
Fernandez lost all hope of ✤a good result when he went down moments before his team-mate crashed.