Unlike the spr🦂int, Martin made a shocking start as he dropped to ninth place, while title rival Francesco Bagnaia went from fourth to first. ꦑ;

Martin recovered ജa position but then quickly came under pressure from Maverick Vinales.

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There was another close momen💧t between Brad Binder and Marc Marquez, as the KTM rider aggressivel🥂y came through on lap two. 

A mistake from team-mate Johann Zarco then allowed Martin to come through for seventh position on la🍌p three.

Using Ducati’s incredible top speed to his advantage,ꦆ Martin then took sixth away from Marc Marquez while Bagnaia continued to lead ahead of Fabio Di Giann🍸antonio. 

Alex Marquez quickly followed his team-mate through on Marini whi💜ch allowed Binder to come through, before the KTM man made that third with an ov💝ertake on Marquez. 

As the race went on, Martin st💛arted losing more and more time to the five riders ahead of him.

A 1.3 second gap grew to over two seconds by the end of lap nine, while pressure from V📖inales behind was mounting. 

With the writing on the wall, lap 11 was the beginning of the end to Martin’s hopes of 𝄹a good result. 

Vinales came through on Martin before ✤M. Marquez did the same just a few corners latဣer. 

It went from bad to worse for Mart꧂in as he was demoted to ninth after Fabio Qua🅰rtararo and Jack Miller came through in quick succession. 

At the front, the lead group was down to two a♏s Bagnaia was unable to break clear of Di Giannantonio. 

With four laps to go Di Giannantonio finally made his move for the lead before a🏅 respons looked to be coming.

Bagnaia tried to respond in turn one but nearly ran into the Gresini rider which resulted in the reigning world champion ru✤nning off the track. 

A two second gap was then created as Di Giannanto꧙nio wen꧃t on to secure a comfortable win ahead of Bagnaia and Marini.