Marc Marquez dominated proceedings in MotoGP sprint win in Aragon GP from new points leader Jorge Martin and Pedro Acosta.
It was a clean start from Gresini Ducati’s Marc Marquez to lead the MotoGP sprint in Aragon GP at Aragon with Pramac Ducati’s Jorge Martin slotting in second from GASGAS Tech 3’s Pedro Acosta and Gresini’s Alex Marquez in the Top 4.
A bad start from Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia dropped him to fifth from Trackhouse Aprilia’s Miguel Oliveira, whom he passed by the end of Lap 1. Oliveira’s teammate Raul Fernandez was seventh from KTM’s Brad Binder and Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo in the Top 9.
Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro crashed out on the back of VR46 Ducati’s Fabio di Giannantonio, as LCR Honda’s Johann Zarco and Pramac’s Franco Morbidelli had separate crashes. As Bagnaia started to gain places after passing A Marquez, he had a wide moment.
He dropped back behind A Marquez and Oliveira, with Binder all over the tail of Bagnaia. The Italian was struggling to keep his bike on the up as he suffered couple of wide moments to lose out to the KTM rider in the battle of sixth.
Bagnaia had Quartararo on his tail who passes R Fernandez for eighth, who lost to Ducati’s Enea Bastianini after he cleared KTM’s Jack Miller early on. A wide moment from Bagnaia and Quartararo allowed Bastianini through to seventh from 14th on the grid.
At the front, M Marquez dominated the proceeding to win the MotoGP sprint in Aragon GP by 3.305s over Martin with Acosta rounding the podium ahead of A Marquez, Oliveira, Binder and Bastianini in the Top 7, as Quartararo passed Bagnaia for eighth.
Bagnaia lost ninth and the final point to VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi on the final lap, but he managed to retake the place and score the final point. He lost the MotoGP points lead to Martin, as Marquez had his first win as a Ducati rider.
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