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Last push in Assen for the Repsol Honda Team before Summer Break
21.06.2022: TT Assen
MotoGP 2022 Round 11
One last race before the mid-season Summer Break and both Pol Espargaro and Stefan Bradl know what they have to do this weekend.
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TT Assen
MotoGP 2022 Round 11

One last race before the mid-season Summer Break and both Pol Espargaro and Stefan Bradl know what they have to do this weekend.
Assen offers a radical change from the demands of the Sachsenring, the tight anti-clockwise German track making way for the fast and flowing Dutch circuit. Having held races since 1949, the TT Assen is steeped in history and has undergone several modifications throughout its life. The current circuit is characterised by a tight first sector which opens into a fast and flowing section before arriving at the infamous Geert Timmer Bocht chicane just before the finish line.
Pol Espargaro arrives at the Dutch race looking to put an end to his run of misfortune, having failed to score in the last three races. A combination of bad luck and injuries have plagued the #44 as of late as he and the Repsol Honda Team have continued to try and chase their early season form.
Intense recovery work while at home has seen some improvements to his injured left ribs, but it looks set to be another physically demanding weekend racing just a week later. In the past, Espargaro has been a consistent point scorer in the Netherlands and finished tenth last year on the RC213V.
For Stefan Bradl, the last race before the Summer Break is a chance to put the pace he showed during German GP practice into action. Complications in the race made for a disappointing home GP for the German rider, but his adaptation to racing the RC213V is well and truly underway.
This will be Bradl’s first time racing at the Dutch track in MotoGP since 2016, the first edition of the race held on Sunday, when he finished eighth. In WorldSBK, when racing there in 2017, he achieved his best overall result of the year – a sixth place finish.
The weather for the weekend is looking significantly cooler and potentially wetter than Germany last week.
Pol Espargaro 44
“I’ve had a few days at home doing everything I can to be prepared for the race this weekend, getting a lot of treatment on the ribs. There’s not much more that we could have done, so I am as ready as I can be.
Assen is a really different track to Germany obviously, there’s a lot of fast changes of directions and you really need to have a bike that handles well. The objective is to get a good result before the Summer Break, we need to stop the run of bad races we have had.”
Stefan Bradl 6
“Assen gives us an opportunity to solve the problems we had in Germany. Before the race we were making some really good progress – especially with my riding. The objective for the weekend is to make another step in this direction, gain that last little bit of confidence and feeling when pushing for a super-fast lap.
It has been a few years since I raced at Assen but I think we can get up to speed quickly there. I’m eager to have a strong weekend to go into the break with an extra bit of motivation.”
Rider Standings
1 QUARTARARO Fabio 20 FRA 172 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha
2 ESPARGARO Aleix 41 SPA 138 Aprilia Racing Aprilia
3 ZARCO Johann 5 FRA 111 Pramac Racing Ducati
4 BASTIANINI Enea 23 ITA 100 Team Gresini Racing MotoGP Ducati
5 BINDER Brad 33 RSA 82 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM
6 MILLER Jack 43 AUS 81 Ducati Lenovo Team Ducati
7 BAGNAIA Francesco 62 ITA 81 Ducati Lenovo Team Ducati
8 RINS Alex 42 SPA 69 Team Suzuki Ecstar Suzuki
9 MIR Joan 36 SPA 69 Team Suzuki Ecstar Suzuki
10 OLIVEIRA Miguel 88 POR 64 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM
11 MARTIN Jorge 89 SPA 61 Pramac Racing Ducati
12 MARQUEZ Marc 93 SPA 60 Repsol Honda Team Honda
13 MARINI Luca 10 ITA 52 Mooney VR46 Racing Team Ducati
14 VINALES Maverick 12 SPA 46 Aprilia Racing Aprilia
15 ESPARGARO Pol 44 SPA 40 Repsol Honda Team Honda
16 NAKAGAMI Takaaki 30 JPN 38 LCR Honda Honda
17 BEZZECCHI Marco 73 ITA 35 Mooney VR46 Racing Team Ducati
18 MARQUEZ Alex 73 SPA 26 LCR Honda Honda
19 MORBIDELLI Franco 21 ITA 25 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha
20 DI GIANNANTONIO Fabio 49 ITA 16 Team Gresini Racing MotoGP Ducati
21 DOVIZIOSO Andrea 4 ITA 10 WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team Yamaha
22 BINDER Darryn 40 RSA 10 WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team Yamaha
23 GARDNER Remy 87 AUS 9 Tech 3 KTM Factory Racing KTM
24 FERNANDEZ Raul 25 SPA 5 Tech 3 KTM Factory Racing KTM
Team Standings
1 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP 197
2 Aprilia Racing 184
3 Pramac Racing 172
4 Ducati Lenovo Team 162
5 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 146
6 Team Suzuki Ecstar 138
7 Team Gresini Racing MotoGP 116
8 Repsol Honda Team 100
9 Mooney VR46 Racing Team 87
10 LCR Honda 64
11 WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team 20
12 Tech 3 KTM Factory Racing 14
Constructor Standings
1 Ducati 221
2 Yamaha 172
3 Aprilia 139
4 KTM 110
5 Suzuki 93
6 Honda 81
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