Repsol Honda Team’s adriaan_26 reclaimed the MotoGP™ eSport title after he emerged victorious from an epic bar-banging final race of the 2022 MotoGP™ eSport Championship, to win the Global Series outright by 15 points!
For the sixth year in succession, the Global Series pitted the fastest gamers from around the world against one another over five rounds and ten races. Each finalist was chosen to represent one of the twelve current MotoGP™ teams as they fought it out to become the 2022 MotoGP™ eSport Champion.
And following on from four action-packed rounds, the fifth and final round was as filled with drama as it was tension, with eleven of the fastest gamers in the world going head-to-head in two intense fights. After Ducati Lenovo eSport Team’s PieroRicciuti55 scored a crucial victory in race one, three names were covered by just five points going into the year’s final race.
PieroRicciuti55 was majestic in Race 1, passing polesitter adriaan_26 for the lead on Lap 3. From there, he never looked back and swept to a convincing victory by 1.3s ahead of Suzuki ECSTAR’s eSports Team AndreaSaveri11, who also got past the Repsol Honda for a crucial second place. That left adriaan_26 on 125 points heading into the final race, while PieroRicciuti55 and AndreaSaveri11 were both on 120. A win for any one of the three would be enough to clinch the title!
Meanwhile it was a disastrous penultimate race for three-time champion trast73 (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™), who came into the season finale second overall. He lost huge points in Race 1, crashing in a collision off the line before another fall on Lap 1 cut short his race, dropping him from second to fifth overall and all but ending his chances of glory.
