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

MotoGP world champions from the past two years, Fabio Quartararo and Joan Mir have collected their winners’ medals as the FIM Gal�ꦇ�a awards made it’s return in Monaco.
Quartararo, the 2021 world champion for Monster Energy Yamaha was also joined by fellow world c꧃hampions in Moto2 and Moto൲3, Remy Gardner and Pedro Acosta - both of the Red Bull KTM Ajo team.
Quౠartararo was the first rider from all three classes to wrap up his title after doing so in Misano when title rival Francesco Bagnaia crashed from the lead with six laps rem♓aining.
For new MotoGP rookie Gardner, the event was a reminder of his incredible success as he narrowly beat team-mate Raul Fernandez to the intermediate clas😼s title.
In Moto3, Ac🗹osta wrapped his rookie 💞season with the world championship 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 seasons𝔍 included 2020 Moto2 champion 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 his medal.

It wasn’t just MotoGP stars that were on stage as new WorldSBK champi⭕on Toprak Razgatlioglu picked uꦉp his medal after claiming Yamaha’s second ever title - first in 12 years.
Razga🧸tlioglu also became the first ever premier class world champion from Turkey after bettering six-time Superbike champion Jonathan Rea.
Like with Mir, Rea also collected his 2020 winners’ medal after beating S꧟cott Redding to the title.
This was the first time since 2019 that the FIM awards went ahead ♔as the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a cancellati💧on 12 months ago.
The FIM Gala awards was the last official event of 2021 for both MotoGP and World🔯SBK as testing at the start of February at the Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia, is next up for MotoGP🀅.