MotoGP: Quartararo, Gardner, Acosta take home world champion medals at FIM Gala

World Champions from the previous two MotoGP and WorldSBK seasons claimed their winners’ medals as the FIM Gala made it’s return in Monaco.
Quartararo, Gardner, Acosta take home world champion medals at FIM awards

MotoGP world champions from the past two years, Fabio Quartararo and Joan Mir have collected their winners’ medals as 🦋the FIM Gala awards made it’s return in Monaco. 

Quartararo, the 2021 world champion for Monster Energy Yamaha was also joined by fellow world champions in Moto2 and Moto3, Remy⛦ Gardner and Pedro Acosta - bot🐟h of the Red Bull KTM Ajo team. 

Quartararo was the first rider from all three classes to wrap up his title after doing so in Misano when title rival Francesco Bagnaia crashed from꧒ the lead with six laps remaining. 

For new MotoGP rookie Gar🍒dner, the event was a reminder of his incredible success as he narrowly b💛eat team-mate Raul Fernandez to the intermediate class title. 

In Moto3, Acosta wra༺pped his rookie season with the world cha🌠mpionship in Portimao after LeOpard racing’s Dennis Foggia was taken out by new MotoGP rider Darryn Binder. 

Other Grand Prix riders to accept awards from the last two seasons included 2020 Moto2 ch𓂃ampion Enea Bastianini who came close to winning MotoGP rookie of the year honour this season, while 2020 Moto3 champion Albert Arenas was also in attendance to receive hi𓂃s medal.

Quartararo, Gardner, Acosta take home world champion medals at FIM awards

It wasn’t just MotoGP stars that were on sꦡtage as new WorldSBK champion Toprak Razgatlioglu picked up his medal after claiming Yamaha’s ﷺsecond ever title - first in 12 years. 

Razꦕgatlioglu also became the first ever premier class world champion from Turkey after bettering six-time Superbike champion Jonathan Rea.&nb🍰sp;

Like with Mirඣ, Rea also collected his 2020 winners’ medal after beating Scott Redding to the title. 

This was the first time since 2019 that the FIM awards went ahead as the Coviܫd-19 pandemic resulted in a cancellation 12 months ago. 

The FIM Gala awards was the last offi🃏cial event of 2021 for bot🌸h MotoGP and WorldSBK as testing at the start of February at the Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia, is next up for MotoGP.

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