Team: Avintia Esponsorama (satellite) Bike: GP19 Wins: 0 Podiums: 2 Best Qualifying: 9th Fastest Lap: 1 DNFs: 3 Championship position: 11th Enea Bastianini arrived in MotoGP as the reigning Moto2 champion, learning the premier-class ropes alongside fellow rookie Luca Marini on 2019-spec Ducatis at the Avintia team. Johann Zarco had taken the same bike to the team's first pole and podium the previous year. But despite the growing age gap to the 2021 bikes, Bastianini was able to stand on the podium twice on his way to 11th in the world championship (two places higher than Zarco the previous year). That's despite failing to qualify higher than ninth, his main Achilles' heel this season....
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