By Lisa Lewis

Moto3 wor🌟ld champion Sandro Cortese t🐓ook his fifth win of the season by 2.108s at Phillip Island on Sunday, marking his first ever back-to-back victories and equaling Maverick Vinales for race wins this year.

Hailing it "the best weekend of the whole year" Cortese also equals♒ the record for the most lightweight podiums in a season (14) set by Alvaro Bautista in 2006 and also matched by Nico Terol in his 125cc championship🦋 runner-up year.

The Red Bull KTM Ajo rider timed his move to the front with perfection, with only Portuguese Sute🥀r Honda rider Miguel Oliveira to concern him over the closing stages, the Estrella Galicia rider eventually settling for second.

Oliveira said that he managed his best ever result even though he "couldn't get the grip he wanted" adding that the race had bee💯n "a lot of fun".

The battle for the final podium spot came down to the line with third-to-sixth places within a tenth of eac🥂h other.

Home rider and Cortese's t꧋eam-mate Arthur Sissis snatched the position scoring a best ever result, the Australian saying in p♚arc ferme that he was "really happy - I was screaming in my helmet".

Crossing the line fourth was Oliveira's Spa🌃nish team-mate Alex Rins who increases his lead over Team Italia's Romano Fenati to five points in their battle for rookie of the year.

Fenati was just 🧸behind in sixth, with Danny Kent finishing between the rivals for the Red Bull KTM team.

The fabric of the race was changed early on when it wꦗas announced that Jonas Folger (Mapfre Aspar) Luis Salom (RW Racing GP) Alberto Moncayo (Andalucia JHK t-Shirt Laglisse) Louis Rossi (Racing Team Germany) and Jack Miller (Caretta Technology) had all been handed ride-through penalties🐻 for jump starts, Rossi then added to his woes by riding off track as the penalty was announced.

Folger reꩵcovered to finish 11th with Salom also recovering a point to help him in his bid to retain sec❀ond in the championship.

Team Italia FMI rider🌜 Alessandro Tonucci was seventh, while Efren Vazquez front row start lead to an eighth pಌlace finish for the Laglisse team.

Alex Marquez took the flag in ninth for the Ambrogio Next team with Isaac Vinales finishing in the tꦰop ten for Ongetta-Centro Seta.

Also in the points were Adrian Martin in 12th ( T-s♛hirt Lag✃lisse) Jakub Kornfeil in 13th (Redo- Ongetta-Centro Seta) and Brad Binder (RW Racing) in 14th.

Zulfahmi Khairuddin's 50th Grand 🌄Prix start ended with the bike locking up and throwing him off after seeming to have a techical issue earlier in the lap.

Maverick Vinales also had an eventful race, ♔crashing out at Siberia on the Blusens Avintia with eight laps to go✤, he returned to the pits with his fairing hanging off and the ECU broken.

John🦋 McPhee was 19th for Caretta Technology KRP Honda, wild-card and fellow Brit Sam Clarke 25th for Frontline GP Racing while Danny Webbಞ withdrew earlier in the weekend due to a lack of spare parts for his Mahindra.

Gresini's Niccolo Antonelli was declare𝓡d unfit to race after his accident in the third free practice session.