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Reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo disappea🌺red into the distanꦬce to claim his and Yamaha's first MotoGP victory since Silverstone last season, during Sunday's Portimao race.

The Frenchman was joined on the podium by Pramac Ducati's Johann Zarco and Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro after♐ Jack Miller fell and took down Joan Mir while trying to pass the Suzuki rider for third.

Combined with title leader Enea Bastianini crashing out, Quartararo is now tied at the top of the world championship with Alex Rins⭕, who made a stunning recovery from 23rd to 4th.

After wet weather throughout free practice, then a damp qualifying, Sunday morning♛'s 20-minute warm-up (topped by Quartararo) was the only real dry preparation prior to the race.

Pole starter Zarco lost out to Mir into the sweeping downhill first turn, with Quartararo and M🌞iller also past the Pramac rider by t꧋he end of the first lap.

Mir and Quartararo, tipped by Marc Marquez as the riders to beat, began edging away at the front while Rins' Suzuki team-mate&n𓆏bsp;Rins began a brilliant charge from 23rd on the grid, reaching 9th - just ahead of Marc Marquez - after the opening laps!

Reign﷽ing world champion Quartararo overtook Mir into Turn 1 at the start of lap 4 to lead, and was soon pulling clear of the GSX-RR for his first victory as world champion.

Mir's attention turned to defending second 🎶from Zarco, with Miller🎶 joining the podium battle by the middle stages. Zarco finally made a pass stick on Mir with 9 to go, with Miller then making his attack with 7 laps remaining, under braking for Turn 1...

...But disastꦿer struck when the Australian lost the front of his Desmosedici, fell and took Mir down with him. Mir, having lost what could have been a first podium the season, initially gave a sarcastic clap before going to check on Miller's condition, the Australian emಌbracing the Spaniard.

Mir's misfortune promoted Aleix Espargaro and Rins into third and fourth, Espargaro then pulling clear of Rins to threaten Zarco&n✤bsp;in the closing stages, before completing the podium in third.

Rins might have missed out on a trophy butꦰ his 23rd to 4th charge was a remarkable performance.

Bastianini, who began Sunday's race leading the world championship by five points from Rins, had been another victim of the treacherous Q1 conditions, leaving the Gresini Ducati rider to start from 18th and wi⭕th a sore right wrist. 

Bastianini made good early progress to twelfth, just ahead of KTM's Brad Binder, before the pair were held up by the battl🗹ing Repsol Hondas of Marc Marquez and Pol Espargaro.

Disaster later struck for Bastianini when he fell at Turn 8 just before the midwa🐽y stage, costing him the title lead, with Takaaki Nakagami the next to tumble after clipping the back of Binder.

Meanwhile, a similarly intenꦦse fight was occurring over fifth place between Aleix Espargaro, Rins, Alex Marquez and home star Migಌuel Oliveira.

Oliveira escaped from the Marquez brothers by the closing🎃 stages for fifth, with Marc getting the better of Alex on the last lap and France😼sco Bagnaia bumping past Pol for eighth.

After qua♎lifying 25th and last due to a big highside in Qualifying 1, after which he underwent hos꧟pital scans on his right shoulder, Bagnaia had been declared fit to ride on Sunday morning.

The Factory Ducati star made slow initial progress, spending the ope💙ning laps outside the top 20, be👍fore turning up his pace to carve through the order.

Jorge Ma🤡rtin crashed out behind Marc Marquez on lap 6, his second DNF of the seaso🍬n, with Brad Binder also on the DNF list.

All riders chose the medium front ty♔re and most the medium rear, with only Pol Espargaro and Alex Marquez opting for t𓄧he hard rear.

Tech3 KTM rookie Raul Fernandez was ruled unfit by the M꧅otoGP medical team on Sunday morning due to pain in his hand from his Qualifying 1 accident.

MotoGP now heads straight to Jerez f𝔍or next weekend's Spanish Grand Prix.