Francesco Bagnaia beats Marc Marquez in epic battle at Jerez

Francesco Bagnaia wins ⛎the Spanish MotoGP after an epic battle against Marcꦿ Marquez.

Francesco Bagnaia, MotoGP, Spanish MotoGP, 26 April
Francesco Bagnaia, MotoGP, Spanish MotoGP, 26 April

Unlike the sprint, Marc Marqueꦓz made the perfect start from pole as he led from MotoGP series leader Jorge Martin.

However, Marquez came under big pressure from Francesco Bagnaia, just moments after the reigning world champion completed a stunni♏ng double overtake on Martin and Marco Bezzecchi around the outside of turn six.

Bagnaia took the le𒀰ad before the🌄 opening lap was over, but Marquez tried to come straight back which gave Martin a sniff of the lead.

Bagnaia held strong until the end of lap two when he got his braking wrong at the fiജnal corner, which gave Martin top spot.

Further back, rookie sensation Pedro Acosta got a dreadful start as he dropped from ten🥀th to P18.

Contact was made with Johann Zarco coming through turn five which resulted in Acosta having to si🅘t up before losing several positཧions.

T♕here was no repeat of the sprint podium for Dani Pedrosa, who retired early on following a crash.

Zarco was part of another incident, however, this time it ended as a crash as Aleix Espargaro took down 😼the Honda rider in his own crash.

Another fall took place a few corners later but this time it was aꦕs dramatic as it could get as Martin crashed from the lead at turn six.

With a lead of over one s𒁏econd, Bagnaia was seemingly cruisin꧂g following Martin’s error.

However, a new chal𝔉lenger was in second after Marquez overtook B🦩ezzecchi at turn six with 12 laps to go.

A new fastest lap of the race was then set by Marquez as the eight-time wor🔴ld champion was putting the hammer down to catch Bagnaia.

And he was doing just that as another three tenths were taken out of Bagnaia’s lead w🌞ith ten laps to go.

After catching Bagnaia, Marquez finally m🍷ade his first move for the lead at turn nine.

Contac♕t was then made when Bagnaia pushed Marquez wide 🥃on the exit of turn ten.

On the fol🥃lowing lap, Marquez went for it again but Bagnaia was equal to his attempt and gained the lead back at turn ten.

That was the final attempt Marquez had as Bagnaia then set a fastest lap of the race to do just enou🦄gh.

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