Bagnaia won his third Sprint with a top-5 finish for Ducati at Mugello

The leader of the MotoGP World Championship pecco bagnaia He scored his third Sprint from a possible six with a clear victory in Mugello from pole position and despite the fact that the light mist that started to fall on the second lap left the Italian in some doubt. When the moment of stress was over, he had regained the race lead he had given to Jorge Martín and no one could keep up with him. Marco Bezzecchi He came second and the distance between them in the table is from 1 to 4 points; Jorge Martin He is still the best Spanish MotoGP, third to 19 points, after adding his fourth Sprint podium in another Ducati festival, they got the top-5 in Mugello.

For the first time in their history the brothers Marc and Alex Márquez They found themselves sharing a front row on the grid at a World Speed ​​​​​​Championship event. Only this Saturday because on Sunday they will apply to Alex the penalty of three places on the grid that he dragged from the previous Le Mans race in an initial maneuver at Binder where he also annoyed Zarco. But in front of them is the world champion and leader, Pecco Bagnaia, untouchable since Practice 2 on Friday and after one lap he destroyed despite taking the oldest of the Cervera men at the wheel in the second round of Q2.

from the pole Bagnaia has retained the initiative and Marc Márquez he held on as best he could in the slipstream of his tail between Ducatis and KTMs that were faster than his Honda and the race of Alex Marquezwhich went wrong, ended in turn 1 after an incident with Brad Binder -he received a long lap penalty- which also led to Zarco’s initial spill.

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Jorge Martin He placed himself behind Bagnaia and Márquez as the first drops began to fall and caused ‘Martinator’ to pass the Honda midway through the second lap and before the turn he took the lead with the rain flags open which is displayed to allow the ‘flag to flag. ‘, although it didn’t disappear from the mist -especially in T2 and T3- ​​and no one entered the pitlane to change motorcycles.

Martín did not hesitate to make up the gap on the third lap and gained four tenths on the world champion. The push between Miller and Márquez for third place caused Márquez to drop four places at once, from third to seventh, which he has never recovered. By the fourth lap Bagnaia was back in the lead with the four Ducatis at the front -Pecco, Martín, Bezzecchi and Marini- although for a few laps they were joined by Zarco instead of Marini.

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Despite the speed in his pocket, Bagnaia was not encouraged to break the race at the halfway point and Bezzecchi, second in the World Championship, 1 point behind Pecco before the race, caught up to him. Martín and Zarco were condemned to fight for third place, with Marini, Miller and Márquez, their pursuers, off the hook.

Bagnaia was already sentenced in the last lap letting go of Bezzecchi, who Martin missed as he had to defend third place with Zarco. He was on top of him in T4, but he couldn’t find the space to pass his teammates without compromising the finish of both.

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Binder with no scoring but a new record

Brad Binder, who started the Sprint as third classified in the World Championship, lost third place in favor of Jorge Martín as he was left without points -11th-, but in return he set the highest speed record in history when he reached 366.1 km/h during the race. Jorge Martín stole the record of 363.6 km/ha which he had held since last year’s Mugello race

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Rins may have broken his leg

As for the rest of the Spaniards, the seventh is Marc Marquez eighth Aleix Espargaró and no more scoring 13th Maverick Viñales, 19th Raúl Fernández and 20th Augusto Fernández. Alex Rins fell on the fourth lap and Alex Márquez on the first. Rins was transferred to the Medical Center and from there to a hospital in Florence for further evaluation of his right leg where it is suspected that there may be fractures in the lower part of his leg.

Sprint Mugello Qualifying