The 2020 MotoGP™ eSport Championship roared back into life on Friday with the dramatic first round of the Global Series providing a host of stand-out performances, plenty of surprises and drama that lasted from the first lap to the last.
The spectacle certainly didn’t disappoint. Originally intended to take place at this year’s Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, the current COVID-19 pandemic restricted the eleven finalists to their homes, where they competed against one another while communicating via a communal video call.
As Williams_Adrian led from the start in race one at Mugello, there was a ferocious battle for second behind as Monster Energy Yamaha’s Trastevere73, Ducati Team’s AndrewZH, Ecstar Suzuki’s Williams_Cristian and Petronas SRT Yamaha’s Sanshoqueen all scrapped for position in a pulsating set of exchanges.
Gradually Trastevere73 and reigning MotoGP™ eSport Champion AndrewZH began to show their class, as they closed the gap to the leader. AndrewZH posted the fastest lap the penultimate time around, and Trastevere73 got to within 0.2s of the leader with just three corners remaining. But Williams_Adrian expertly held his nerve to claim his first Global Series triumph by 0.7s, with Trastevere73 second and AndrewZH third as just one second covered the podium places.
Williams_Cristian, brother of the race winner, resisted the efforts of impressive Global Series rookie Sanshoqueen for a fine fourth, with the Indonesian a place behind and just a few tenths of a second back in fifth.
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