Jorge Martin wins Indonesian MotoGP; Marc Marquez and Enea Bastianini DNF
Championship leader💮 scores vital first Sun🙈day win since May
MotoGP championship leader Jorge Martin led from start to finish in a chaotic Indonesian Grand Prix as Pedro Acosta’s second-p🍌lace is under threat from a possible tyre pressure penalty.
After crashing out of🐲 the sprint race on Saturday and gifting the win to h🎀is chief title rival Francesco Bagnaia, Martin dominated the grand prix.
The Pramac rider led every lap from pole to beat Tech3 GASGAS rider Acosta by 1.4s in a race that has, for the t🤪ime being, put his championship le🐷ad up to 21 points over Bagnaia he took the chequered flag in third.
However, Acosta has been flagged for a possible tyre pressure infringement, which could net him a 𓄧16s time penalty if he is found to have breached the rules.
This could have a huge impact on the race as it would promote Bagnaia to second and cut Martin’s champi𓄧onship lead down to 17 points.
Enea Bastianini and Marc Marquez’s title hopes look over after the Indonesian GP, after the former cra༒shed out of third🌠 while setting the best pace of the race while the latter suffered a technical issue.
Off the line, Martin eased into the lead ahead of Bastianini and Acosta, while Bagnaia recovered from a poor launch to hold fourth🧜 ahead of Marquez.
At Turn 3, a pile-up triggered by Jack Miller (KTM) took out Honda’s Luca Marini, Alex Marquez for Gresini and Ap🐟rilia’s Aleix Espargaro. No furthe🐼r action was taken on the incident after an investigation by the stewards.
Bag♒naia was pushed d🌃own to sixth at the end of lap one by Franco Morbidelli (Pramac) and Marco Bezzecchi (VR46), while Acosta would get ahead of Bastianini at Turn 16 two tours later.
The latter overtake gave Martin a 1.3s lead, while the two fact꧋ory Ducati riders struggled for pace in the early laps.
While Martin’s lea🐲d would fluctuate with Acosta behind him, he didn’t ever come under𒁏 serious threat from the Tech3 rookie.
From around lap eight, Bastianini’s pace began to light up a♔nd the Italian proved to be the biggest threat to Martin’s victory.
Once Bastianini g𒆙ot clear of Bezzecchi on lap 13 and Morbidelli on lap 17, he stre꧃aked away from that group and ate into the gap to Acosta in second.
Get♋ting it dow༺n to around 1.5s at the start of lap 21, Bastianini crashed at Turn 1 .
This boosted Bagnaia’s hopeಞs of getting onto the podium, with the world champion getting into third oওn lap 23.
Martin took the chequered flag 1.4s ahead of Acosta, with Bagnaia completing the podium - but could be boosted to second shoulღd Acosta lose his fourth grand prix rostrum of the year.
A penalty for Acosta will boost Franco Morbidelli to his first grand prix top three since Spain 2021, after the Pramac rider was fourth ahead of Bezzecchi - as🔴 the pair made the soft front tyre workܫ for them.
Maverick Vinales was sixth on the f൲actory Aprilia, with Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo seventh.
Brad Binder was eighth fo❀r KTM, but also faces a tyre press investigation. Johann Zarco took Honda’s best result of the year in ninth for LCR, with Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse) completing the top 10.
LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami and Yamaha’s Alex Rins completed the t♍op 12 as th💯e last classified runners.
Augusto Fernandez (Tech3), Joan Mir (Honda) and Fabio Di Giannantoni🌜o (VR46) all crashed out, while an apparent en🍃gine blow took Marc Marquez out of the grand prix on lap 12.
With DN🐷Fs for Bastianini and Marquez leaving them 75 and 78 points behind Martin, their title🐈 hopes look over with five rounds remaining.
