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2024 MotoGP Season
2024 Indonesian MotoGP
Round 15
Pertamina Mandalika International Street Circuit
Central Lombok, Indonesia
Sunday, 29 September 2024
Enea Bastianini will be determined to make it back-to-back victories in the current season by clinching the Indonesian MotoGP title.
Most recent race
The Ducati Lenovo Team rider was in his element at the Emilia Romagna MotoGP on 22 September, the most recent race on the 2024 MotoGP calendar.
Bastianini won the race and also settled for a third-spot finish in the sprint event which saw him collect 32 points in total from the event held in Italy.
MotoGP title ambitions
The man nicknamed "La Bestia" (The Beast) is now placed third in the 2024 MotoGP Riders' standings having accumulated 182 points from 14 races.
Bastianini is now 59 points behind leader Jorge Martin of Ducati Prima Pramac Racing and 35 points behind second-placed Francesco Bagnaia of Ducati Lenovo Team.
Why Bastianini could win the 2024 Indonesian MotoGP
La Bestia is oozing with confidence at the moment after registering his second victory of the season by clinching the Emilia Romagna MotoGP title.
The 26-year-old knows that a victory at the Indonesian MotoGP would boost his hopes of winning this season's MotoGP world title.
What did he say?
“This victory is a great achievement, because we built up to a crescendo this weekend. Yesterday we were missing something to battle for the win," Bastianini said after winning the 2024 Emilia Romagna MotoGP title.
"But we worked until late in order to put all the pieces together and to find a solution ahead of today’s race, and it worked. Jorge (Martín) was extremely fast throughout the race and there was a moment in which I wasn’t sure if I could have stayed with him, as I started experiencing a bit of vibration at the rear-end.
"As the laps went by, however, I tried to understand how to minimise the issue. In the final laps, something extra obviously comes out that enables you to battle for the win," he added.
"In the end, I made my move: when I dove in, Jorge tried to close the door and that forced me to lean a bit, which led to the front-end locking. I tried to rely on the rear as much as I could, while making sure I could make the turn, and it worked.”
2023 Indonesia MotoGP results
Winner: Francesco Bagnaia - Ducati
Runner-Up: Maverick Vinales - Aprilia
Third-Place: Fabio Quartararo - Yamaha
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