He Red Bull Ring The Austrian is the circuit where Ducati are most comfortable throughout the World Championship calendar, since 2016 they have only lost two races due to pure opportunism from their KTM rivals. And in 2023 they have graduated, hand in hand with their main actor, the champion pecco bagnaia, his Austrian masterpiece. Not only was it the third double win in a MotoGP Grand Prix for Bagnaia, but he did it with two Grand Chelems, pole position, victory and fastest lap in the race and leading all laps.
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Never seen before for the rider to go straight to renew his MotoGP crown. Brad Binder and Marco Bezzecchi joined him on the podium at 5″ and 7″7 respectively, a world wide. And now he dropped second place, Jorge Martín, seventh, to 62 points, and 68 points behind Bezzecchi.
from the pole pecco bagnaia he repeated the same start on Saturday in the Sprint ahead of the two KTMs of Binder and Miller and behind Alex Márquez and Luca Marini with Bezzecchi. This time there was not the slightest incident at the treacherous turn 1, no one wants to win the race in a curve and Viñales did not repeat his bad start, although on acceleration he began to lose positions -from second to eighth-. But once again the ‘Martinator’ from his twelfth place passed to seventh when they told him he could continue his long lap penalty out of turn 1. From seventh he went to 13th, losing many positions and about 3 ” that they have left him in the game as it should be.
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At the front went Bagnaia and Binder, the KTM man staying away so as not to increase the pressure on his front tire, while Alex Marquez He was in third place by the fourth lap and a lap later the two Mooney VR 46 Bezzecchi and Marini also passed Miller. Now he was in the hands of the two Aprilias who had a harder time passing him -in Viñales 11th and in Espargaró 12th-. Bezzecchi released his teammate Marini and patiently joined in Alex Marquez to fight for the third drawer.
Bagnaia broke the equator race
On the eleventh lap, taking advantage of the free track, Bagnaia gave another point on the gas and opened the gap to Binder, who reached second midway through the race and finally finished the race. The third double in a Grand Prix after Portimao and Mugello opened in front of him and also his direct competitors who temporarily left the podium. In the blink of an eye the South African fell 4″ with six to spare.
Bezzecchi was looking for the first overtaking Alex Marquez 9 from the end and one from Cervera immediately responded to a battle between the Ducatis GP22 and ex-roosters in Moto2 and Marini, ‘Bez’s’ teammate, jumped them again in the three-way battle for the third drawer and seven turns. ahead. At turn 9 the decisive overtake of Márquez came, with obvious problems, but he sold fourth place dearly until three from the end, Marini was consolidated. At 1″4 he had Viñales, but with three laps ahead there was no time to steal the top-5, although he reached his six-tenths at the end.
Jorge Martin He was moving up from 13th place after serving the penalty in seventh between the two Aprilias and that was his limit which allowed him to retain second place in the World Championship but Bagnaia escaped him with 62 points.
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Marc Márquez scored on a Sunday for the first time
He said Marc Márquez on Saturday without the first aid incident in the Sprint his top-10 would have been a clear top-15 and this Sunday he has been in his natural position throughout the race. The Hondas joined the group led by Pol Espargaró and then Morbidelli and while Mir recorded another crash in the race, Marc Márquez matured riders in his management of the race -Pol, Zarco, Miller-, who overtook when he was clearly following. in the wake of Morbidelli and so to the end to enter 12th in 23″027 from Bagnaia and his first three points since his seventh in Malaysia’22. And with a soft rear against the rest of the grid.
About the Spanish fifth Alex Márquez, sixth Maverick Viñales, seventh Jorge Martín, ninth Aleix Espargaró, 12th Marc Márquez, 14th Augusto Fernández -the GasGas rookie keeps adding points every Sunday-, 16th Pol Espargaró and 20th Iker Lecuona. Raúl Fernández retired with two to spare and Joan Mir fell on the 13th lap when he was out of the points.
MotoGP Race Classification
Source: La Verdad
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