Francesco Bagnaia fights off seven﷽ passes from Marc Marquez to claim h🦩is first MotoGP win in the 2021 Aragon MotoGP.

Bagnaia converted pole 💜into the early lead, but with Marquez passing the other factory Ducati of Jack 🅷Miller for second at turn one.

The pair then broke clear with Marquez - seeking his fifth Aragon win in a r🍃ow (after missing 2020 through injury) at one of his favourite anti-clockwise tracks - shadowing Bagnaia for lap-after-lap before launching an 🧸attack at Turn 5 with 3 laps to go.

Bagnaia calmly cut inside Marquez on the exit to r💖eclaim the advantage, with the Repsol Honda rider then throwing 🐬;in a block pass at the chicane onto the back straight - and again Bagnaia repassed.

Attempt number three came in th༒e form of another lunge at Turn 5, and again Bagnaia sliced past him on the exit. Marquez tried at the chicane once again, and&🔜nbsp;again was rebuffed by Bagnaia, setting up a last lap showdown.

The #93 outbraked Bagnaia into Turn 1 but yet again ran wide on the exit, and history repeated itself yet again when Marquez launch🐷ed overtake number six into Turn 5.

Turn 12 was the scene of Marquez's seventh and final attempt, but Marq✱uez ran off on the exit and the victory was finally Bagnaia's!

Nonetheless, Marquez was satisfied with only his second podium appearance of the season, after his Sa♋chsenring win.

Miller had gradually faded back from the leading duo before a mistake at mid-dista🍸nce allowed both Aleix Espargaro and Joan Mir ahead. Mir then passed the Aprilia rider, but couldn't close trouble Marquez and Bagnaia ahead and had to settle for the final podium place.

World championship leader Fabi♉o Quartararo, starting alongside Bagnaia and Miller on the front row, lost ground to seventh on the opening lap.

Riding at what he considers to be his 'worst' track, the Frenchman struggled to stay in touch with the group ahead and lost further places to the KTMs of Iker Lecuona (set to announce a s𒐪witch to WorldSBK next season) and Brad Binder, then rookie Enea Bastianini, before taking a place bac🌸k for eighth.

All of which meant Mir, who began today's race 65 points behind Quartararo, reduced the gap to 57 points but has now lostꦗ second in the standings to Bagnaia (-53 points).

Starting just 20th, Mir's Suzuki&nb🐼sp;team-mate and last y𓆉ear's race winner Alex Rins salvaged 12th.

After splitting from Yamaha following Austria and missing Silverstone, Ma๊verick Vinales returned to MotoGP action with Aprilia, where he has signed to race until the end of 2022.

The Spaniard spent much of his first race on the RS-GP battling over 19th with former Yamaha team-mate Valentino 🔥Rossi and the Italian's broher Luca Marini for 1ꦏ8th.

Yamaha test rid🧔er Cal Crutchlow was replacing Vinales at the Factory Yamaha team for the second event in a row, with Jake Dixon likewise staying at Petronas Yamaha on the injured Franco Morbidelli's 2019 A-spec bike.

Crutchlow finished 16th while Dixon crashed out early in their final MotoGP appearances of the season, Crutchlow now returning to testing dutie🤡s and Dixon to Moto2.

Despite hot conditons, all🃏 of the grid chose the soft rear tyre, in the knowledge there could be a significant drop of performance in the closing stages. All riders except Johann Zarco (medium) picked the hard front.

The first of this year's Misano rounds will take place next weekend, when Morbidelli is set to make a return from knee surgery for his debut at Mon𒊎ster Yamaha as Vinales' full-time replacement.

Taking over Morbidelli's ex-Petronas bike from Misano onwards will be triple MotoGP title runner-up Andrea Dovizioso, the former Ducati star also remaining at what will be a restructured satellite Yama𒅌ha team for 2022.

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