Twin Ring Motegi, 16 October 2016. Pecco Bagnaia, Italian pilot of nineteen years of the Team Aspar Mahindra, ended up among the ten first in the Big Prize of Japan 2016 of Moto3 that took place in the circuit of Motegi, northwest of Tokyo. Bagnaia, that split from the twelfth place of the grill, maintained always in the group of head and ended up in sixth position, only a pair of tenth of second by behind Fabio Gave Giannantonio. The jovencísimo pilot of Mahindra, that the past month of June won the Big Prize of Holland, knew to take advantage of his excellent start and the performance of his Mahindra MGP3O while the tyres provided him the adherencia necessary.

By his part, his mate of squad, Jorge Martín, that ended up sixth in the celebrated career in the circuit of Aragon, split from the vigesimotercer put of the grill because of an accident during the coachings that caused him injuries in the left leg, and had to abandon the competition to fault of ten turns for the end. Albert Sands, to loins of his Peugeot MGP3O, ended up in fifteenth position, conquering his first point of the season. The English John McPhee, with the second mount Peugeot of the competition, saw obliged to abandon because of an accident in the first curve, whereas the private pilot Darryn Binder showed the potential of the Mahindra MGP3O trace from the vigesimoctavo put of the grill until the eighth square during the first turns of the career, to end up again out of the points. The victory was for the Deep of the Italian Enea Bastianini, by in front of the KTM of the new champion of the world of the speciality, Brad Binder.

Now the Team Aspar Mahindra travels to Australia to compete in Philip Island, second of the three consecutive careers transoceanic, before the closing of the season in November in Valencia.

«It has been a difficult career, probably one of the most complicated of my life», said Francesco Bagnaia at the end of the same. «In the first turn was to tope not to lose time. We knew that had problems of acceleration, so I tried to open gas whenever I could, but the tyres began to deteriorate immediately and had to diminish the speed».

«It has not been a totally negative weekend but, take the stupendous season that have enjoyed, not being in the pódium is a bit disappointing», said Mufaddal Choonia, CEO of Mahindra Racing. «Pecco Has showed once again his big capacity to manage the careers when trace from the twelfth place of party until the second, but to the end of the career has suffered a loss of adherencia. It had gone us better if McPhee and Binder had not fallen . Nevertheless, it has been beautiful to see mark to Sands. This means that our project is producing the results expected independently of the pilots. Habida Counts of his physical condition, Martín has comported like an authentic alone hero for having taken the start, and has been beautiful to see him trace until the tenth position. We are very happy that it was our pilot. We expect that it go back to be in full form because the next two careers adapt very well to the characteristics of our motorbike».

L'articolo Bagnaia, among the ten first of the Big Prize of Japan sembra essere il prime his Mahindra Motors.