By Lisa Lewis

Red Bull KTM Ajo rider Luis Salom to🎀ok his second win of the season at Mugello on Sunday, leading five riders covered by one-second at the finish.

Salom fought pain in his wrist to time his move♛ to the front to perfection.

The Spaniard was inadvertently helped to a small lead by an ove𒆙renthusiastic move by Estrella Galicia's Alex Marquez which he took maximum advantage of.

He cuts Maverick Vinales championship lead down to just f🍌our points, both riders have been on the podium at every round so far this season, with Vinales finishing third in Italy- and again c♏ausing an all Spanish rostrum.

Alex Rins also looked like a potential winner a𒁃fter playing catch-up from a poor start but the Estrella Galicia rider had to settle🦂 for the second on the podium, with his slipstreaming attempts not quite able to make up the difference to Salom.

Mahindra were given their best finish to date by their Portuguese rider Miguel Oil🍸veira in fourth. The Mahindra was the only non-KTM powered bike to make the top six.

Rins team-mate Marquez went on to finish fifth after working to claw back the gap🔯 to Salom.

For most of the race the lead was contested by a grou🍒p of six with Salom, Marquez, V🐓inales, Rins, Oliveira and Folger all in the hunt for the win.

After a dream start Jonas Folger was joined at the front by Vinales at the end of the first lap. The Mapfre Aspar man found himself dropped with four laps to go, leaving him to fin𒐪ish sixth.

Niccolo Antonelli s🥂ecured his first finish of the season for the Go & Fun Gresini team in seventh. He held on to seventh after running solo for most of the race.

He was also the highest placed Ho🐭nda rider and top finishing home rider.

Th🤪e battles in the huge c♍hasing group were immense, covering eighth down to 19th and riders worked hard to pull back through the field from low grid positions.

Niklas Ajo was the best of the rest in eighth for Avant Tenco after being 23rd on the grid, followed across the line by Brazilian Eric Granado who secured his b🐽est finish for the Aspar team in ninth.

Jack Miller co🐼mpleted the top ten finishers for the Caretta Technology- RTG team.

Zulfahmi Khairuddin powered thrugh the pack, putting the secondꩲ of the Red Bull machines 🦹in eleventh after qualifying down in 18th.

Alexis Masbou took points on his 26th birthday for the Ongetta-Rivacold outfit in twelfth. His Ongetta team-mate Isaac Vinales was next across the stripe in 13♓th, Brad Binder sಞecured 14th for Ambrogio Racing and the final point went to RW racing rider Jasper Iwema after a photo finish.

That meant Caretta Technology's British rider John McPhee was relegated to 16th 𓆏position.

Ambrogio Racings Danny Webb was enjoying some mid-pack battling when his Suter was clipp🍷ed by Jasper Iwema with 15 laps to go, leading to him running off track to stay upright and in the𒆙 race. The Brit fought back to finish17th.

There was a crash in the final corner on the final lap for Jakub Kronfeil and Matteo Ferrari. After complaining of balance issues during the weekend and being treated by doctors the Czech rider wa🐎lked away unharmed, the Italian however was taken from the track on a stretcher.

Last years second place finisher Romano Fenati had made his way through the pack when his San Carlo Team I🧸talia bike was caught by behind by Binder, ending his race.