Espargaro won Saturday’s MotoGP sprint 💫after overcoming world champion Francesco Bagnaia𒆙, before going on to do the same against teammate Maverick Vinales.

The Grand Prix was a much tougher race for Espargaro, who admitted he didn’t have the same feeling as the sprint and that he would have settled f꧒or second had it not been his home race. 

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But ꧒after managing to beat Vinales to victory thanks to an overtake at turn one (four laps from the end), Espargaro looked back on what the achievement meant.

"I think that today is a very historical moment," began ജthe Spaniard. "I’m very proud of Aprilia. Very, very proud because we came from very faಞr away. 

"Aprilia has to be very proud of Maverick and me because we t꧃ogether did an amazing and historical job♈. 

"It’s not easy to have a good relationship with your teammate when you are fighting for top positions and to develop the bike t🍬o fight against your rivals. So, I’m very happy. Congratulations to Aprilia."

Following his battle with Vinales, Espargaro asked the former Yamaha rider to change bikes with him after securing𓄧 Aprilia’s first-ever 1-2 in MotoGP.

A situation we very rarely see, Espargaro added: "When I saw Ma🐎ver🐓ick, I said, “Let’s change the bikes,” he looked at me like, you’re crazy. 

"I said to myself, I remember at that moment Maverick struggling three years ago, and he was super down. I was talking to him. “You will co𝔉me to 💎Aprilia.” But obviously, he was not sure, because Aprilia was finishing at one minute. 

"But I said to him, “You are very strong. We’re going to put this bike on top🥃." 

"This is l๊ike a present to Aprilia, to 💖ourselves, to belief, to hard work. Teamwork in the end pays off because two strong riders working together, it’s much better than one. 

"Today we proved. This is a present for Romano, Maꦐssimo, and everybody back in Noal✤e."

Sunday’s 1-2 finish was also made possible 🐈when both factory Aprilia rider avoided the turn one car🃏nage, something Jorge Martin managed to do as well before claiming third.

After seeing Francesco Bagnaia lose the lead following a brutal highside, Martin did his best to avoid thꩵe Italian which Brad Binder was unable to do as he ran over Bagnaia’s legs.

"I saw him highside," stated Martin. "It’s really unus𒐪ual nowadays in MotoGP. It was really strange. Then I braked so, so hard trying to avoid touching him. 

"Then as soon as I braked, I felt a big hit from the🌠 back from Brad, I guess. 

"Then I saw that he w🎃ent through Pecco’s leg. So at that point, I was a bit scared. Then all𝔍 the oil was coming onto my visor and on my bike. 

"I thought the best thi✃ng was to go in. I tried to 🧜make the movement of the flag. After that, my swing arm was broken, my exhaust pipe also. 

"So I had to go to my second bi🦹ke that I didn’t really like during the weekend."