Valencia MotoGP: Francesco Bagnaia wins his second MotoGP title as Jorge Martin clashes with Marc Marquez
Starting from pole after a📖 pre-race penalty for Maverick Vinales, Bagnaia made a great laꦚunch as he led into turn one.
But his title rival Jorge Martin made an equally good start and moved up from sixth to sec𓆏ond coming out of turn two.As Ma🧸rtin shaped up for a move on lap three, the Spaniard instead went wide after getting sucked into the slipstream of the series leader.
Martin then droppe🍌d to eighth as a result before moving back up to sixth at the third time of asking, following a move on Vinales.
But Martin’s titl🌠e hopes were soon dashed as Martin cra꧑shed out two cornes later when he clipped the rear of Marc Marquez.
The contact, which was initiated by Mart🅘in, resulted in Marquez being violently launched from his Repsol Honda.
With the news♏ that Martin was out, Bagnaia was soon overtaken by both factory KTM riders as Brad Binder took the lead.
Keen to put his name a🌠top the winning column, Miller was not letting Binder out of his s♉ights while Bagnaia had Johann Zarco for close company as we approached mid-race distance.
Binder then made a huge mistake on lap 14 as he 🌠lost five places after going off circuit at turn ten.&nb🌊sp;
Binder’s r♚ecovery ride then s🔜aw him smash into Alex Marquez at turn four, which resulted in him being asked to drop one position.
Looking set to end a difficult year with a first victory for ༺KTM, Miller made a huge mistake as he crashed at turn 11.
That han✃ded the lead back to Bagnaia, who still had Zarco fighting him for his second win of the season.
Theܫ quickest rider on track, Di Giannantonio overtook Binder before rapidly closing in on the front two.
With two laps to go Di Giannantonio pounced on Zarco for P2 before hounding Bagnaia for the winඣ on the final lap.
