Catalunya MotoGP: Francesco Bagnaia picks off Jorge Martin for victory

Francesco Bagnaia beats Jo෴rge Martin to victory at the Cataluny꧋a MotoGP.

Francesco Bagnaia
Francesco Bagnaia

Looking to make it back-to-back MotoGP wins in Catalunya, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro launched away from pole position but like in the 🌳sprint, the Aprilia rider lost several positions.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia took the le🐠ad ahead of Pedro 💃Acosta who began hounding the world champion on lap two.

Jorge Martin made a very good start from the head 🙈of row three as he challenged Brad Binder for P3 at the e๊nd of the opening lap.

On lap three came the🉐 first lead change as Acosta𓆏 went for it at turn ten, however, Bagnaia snapped straight back as they nearly collided.

Jack Miller went down at the same corner, crashing out of P7 which helped Marc Marquez move up from ninth♔ to eighth.

After his failed overtake, Acosta was🙈 instead demoted to third as Martin swooped through at turn 🃏ten on lap four.

Es☂pargaro, who was running fifth on lap five, made a mistake in sector one as Raul Fernandez came through.

On the same lap, Martin’s charge continued as he delivered a brilliant move under braking to gain the lead away from B𝄹agnaia.

Bagnaia was ꦛthen bumped down to 🍸third as Acosta made his second overtake attempt on the Ducati rider stick at turn ten.

On lap ✨11 Binder suffered the first big drop as ꧋he was quickly overtaken by Espargaro and Fernandez.

That wasn’t it for changes🔯 to the lead gr⛎oup on lap 11 as Acosta crashed at turn ten before remounting 20th place.

In the battle for fifth, Marq💙uez began to make significant progress 🃏as he overtook both Franco Morbidelli and Binder.

Edging towards the race leader, Bagnaia was beginning to reel Martin in wit🎀h nine laps rem𝓰aining.

The gap, which was hovering at around half a second, was slashed to j🥂ust two tenths with six laps remaining.

As s🐭oon as he got within reach Bagnaia did not hesitate as he took the lea✨d at turn five.

In the battle♍ for third spot, Espargaro had Marquez for company who was clearly quicker than the sprint winner.

Li🎃ke Bagnaia, Marquez wasted no time in using his better speed as he gained P3 thanks to a great slipstream along the start-finish straight.

Despite late pressure from 🉐Espargaro, Marquez held on to secure another stunning podium, while Bagnaia won by nearly two seconds from Martin.

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