The Spanish Jorge Martín (Ducati Desmosedici GP24) won the race from start to finish sprint of the Australian MotoGP Grand Prix that was held at the Phillip Island circuit and with which he increases his lead in the provisional championship standings.
Martín, who achieves his sixth victory of the season in a race sprintincreases his advantage in the provisional classification of the world championship to 16 points over the Italian Francesco Pecco Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP24), who could only be fourth.
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Very good start from both Jorge Martín and Marc Márquez, who then lost all his advantage by going too far into the first corner and was relegated to eighth position, while the world championship leader maintained first place, ahead of Marco Bezzecchi and Pecco Bagnaia.
Evidently Marc Márquez made a mistake in the first corner by deactivating his motorcycle’s starting system too much, which caused him to lose many positions and literally left Jorge Martín alone at the front of the race.
Márquez—eighth at that time—wasted no time in recovering positions to overtake both Franco Morbidelli and Maverick Viñales, who despite starting third also gave up a lot of space to his rivals.
Marc Marquez
Thus, in the second lap, Jorge Martín already had almost a second of advantage over his immediate pursuers, the couple formed by Bezzecchi and Bagnaia, who in turn had half a second over the South African Brad Binder, who led the group in which he already There was Marc Márquez, who on the third lap was already in fourth place chasing Bagnaia, who overtook Bezzecchi on that lap.
In the fourth lap, Jorge Martín’s advantage was already greater than the second over a quartet formed by Bagnaia, Bezzecchi, Márquez – who did not take long to put the wheel to the Italian – and Bastianini.
Marc Márquez tried to make a pass on Marco Bezzecchi on the fifth lap, but the Italian held his position very well, until in the finish line the Spaniard achieved his objective to go in the wake of Bagnaia, whom he overtook in just a few corners. of the sixth of the thirteen laps for which the ‘sprint’ race was scheduled.
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On that same lap, the Frenchman Johann Zarco (Honda RC 213 V) and the Spanish Alex Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP23) were left out of the race due to a crash, and Marc Márquez was already glued to the slipstream of the motorcycle. Pecco Bagnaia, with Jorge Martín two seconds ahead.
Márquez looked for his opportunity and looked for the gap that would allow him to overtake Bagnaia, a goal he achieved on the eighth lap, although by then Jorge Martín’s advantage was already more than three seconds.
Bagnaia was not at his best, as practically on that same lap both Marc Márquez and Enea Bastianini overtook him, going from second to fourth place.
Far from giving up ground, Jorge Martín knew how to maintain and even increase by a tenth of a second the advantage he had over Marc Márquez on the way to victory in the first ‘sprint’ race in Australia, since in 2023 the bad atmospheric conditions prevented it from being held.
Francesco Bagnaia
But Marc Márquez persevered and three laps from the end reduced the gap by a few tenths of a second with Jorge Martín who was perfectly controlling his ‘calculating’ advantage in hand.
By then, the race had already lost two of its protagonists, the Australian Jack Miller (KTM RC 16) and the Spanish Pedro Acosta (Gas Gas RC 16) and in the rush of braking in turn one, at the beginning of the eleventh lap, Marco Bezzecchi miscalculated his braking and hit a Maverick Viñales who had just overtaken him from behind.
Like them, shortly after, the South African Brad Binder (KTM RC 16) also ended up on the ground.
Jorge Martín knew how to manage his advantage very well to win the race sprintfollowed by Marc Márquez and Enea Bastianini, who took the first podium at Phillip Island, with double world champion ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia in fourth place.
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