Bagnaia wins from Martin, Marquez as Acosta crashes

Bagnaia appeared on the right track to take the dash victory on Saturday when he crashed out of the lead on the ultimate lap.

Biding his time within the first half of the race, Bagnaia reeled in Pramac’s Martin to overtake him on lap 19 of 24, earlier than streaking away by 1.740 seconds to attain his third grand prix win of the season.

It strikes him again as much as second within the standings, although Martin has nonetheless prolonged his benefit to 39 factors after ending second within the grand prix.

Marquez was one in every of 4 riders to gamble with the comfortable rear tyre within the sweltering circumstances and used it to return from 14th on the grid to take third by simply 0.052s from Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro.

Ducati’s Bagnaia grabbed the holeshot from second on the grid from Tech3 GasGas rider Pedro Acosta, KTM’s Brad Binder, Martin and poleman Espargaro.

Acosta, additionally on the comfortable rear – together with Jack Miller (KTM), who crashed, and Alex Marquez – launched an assault on Bagnaia’s lead at Flip 10 on the third tour however ran vast and let the Ducati again into the lead.

Miller would crash simply seconds later behind the leaders on the identical nook, whereas Martin handed Acosta there for second on the next lap.

Martin then handed Bagnaia at Flip 10 on lap 5 to take the lead, with Acosta following the Pramac rider by way of on the sixth tour.

The highest two rapidly opened up a niche of over a second to Bagnaia, with Martin launched right into a 1.1s lead when Acosta crashed on lap 11 at Flip 10.

Bagnaia steadily chipped into Martin’s lead over the following few laps, getting it all the way down to seventh tenths in the beginning of lap 16.

Martin’s lead fell additional till Bagnaia lined up a profitable assault into Flip 5 – the place he crashed within the dash on Saturday – on lap 19.

Bagnaia eased away from Martin to safe an vital victory after his dash woes, with Martin second.

Marquez’s cost from 14th began with a soar as much as tenth on the opening lap, however discovered himself caught behind Pramac’s Franco Morbidelli till lap 11.

As soon as freed from Morbidelli, Marquez rapidly handed a struggling Binder on lap 12 and bought as much as fourth forward of Trackhouse Racing’s Raul Fernandez six excursions later.

Espargaro – who gained the dash on Saturday 48 hours after asserting his retirement from MotoGP – could not preserve Marquez at bay and fell to his advances on lap 21 at Flip 1.

The Aprilia rider piled the stress on Gresini’s Marquez over the ultimate lap, however got here up simply 0.052s brief.

Fabio Di Giannantonio was fifth on his VR46 Ducati, with Raul Fernandez sixth forward of Alex Marquez (Gresini) and Binder. Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo was ninth, with Miguel Oliveira (Trackhouse Racing) tenth.

The ultimate factors went to Marco Bezzecchi (VR46), Maverick Vinales (Aprilia), Acosta following his crash, LCR Honda’s Takaaki Nakagami and manufacturing unit Honda counterpart Joan Mir.

Enea Bastianini crossed the end line in ninth, however was handed a 32-second time penalty for failing to adjust to two lengthy lap penalties and a subsequent ride-through for ignoring his earlier punishments.

This dropped the manufacturing unit Ducati rider all the way down to 18th.

Tech3’s Augusto Fernandez and Morbidelli joined Miller on the sidelines after crashes at Flip 10.