The Spanish Marc Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP23) added his third victory of the season by winning the Australian MotoGP Grand Prix at the Phillip Island circuit, despite the efforts of the also Spanish Jorge Martín (Ducati Desmosedici GP24) because it was not So.
Márquez is getting a little closer to the category leaders, who are now twenty points away between Jorge Martín and the Italian Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP24), third in Australia.
The Spanish Pedro ‘Tiburón’ Acosta (Gas Gas RC 16) was the first casualty of the MotoGP race when he was declared ‘unfit’ after the fall he suffered on Saturday in the ‘sprint’, in which he hit his shoulder. without suffering any fractures but with a lot of discomfort, which has advised the Puerto de Mazarrón pilot to rest.
Marc Marquez of Spain and the #93 of Gresini Racing MotoGP celebrate after winning the Australian MotoGP
Marc Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP23) was not too lucky, as the rear wheel of his motorcycle skidded a lot at the start and while Jorge Martín took off like an exhalation, the eight-time world champion had to look for every possible gap to reach the finish line. sixth position in the first section of the Australian circuit after having lost numerous positions.
Then it was found that the protection of the visor of the helmet that he removed just before the start remained on the ground in front of the rear wheel of his motorcycle and that was what caused the exaggerated ‘skidding’ of it, that slipped on the plastic.
Martín pushed like a shot and already in the first lap he gained four tenths of a second ahead of the Italians Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati Desmosedici GP23) and Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP24), with the South African Brad Binder (KTM RC 16) and the Italian Franco Morbidelli (Ducati Desmosedici GP24) behind them.
Spanish Gresini Racing MotoGP rider Marc Márquez wins at Lukey Heights on his way to victory at the Australian MotoGP Grand Prix
At that time Marc Márquez was sixth, reaching the tail of that quartet chasing a solid leader.
In the third lap, the Spaniard Alex Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP23) fulfilled his ‘long lap’ sanction and in the next lap Marco Bezzecchi did so, who was sanctioned for throwing the Spaniard Maverick Viñales at the end of the straight during the ‘sprint’ race. (Aprilia RS-GP).
At the same moment and point in which Bezzecchi served his penalty, turn four, Marc Márquez took advantage of Brad Binder’s mistake, who went wide, to overtake him and get into fourth position, at a point where a lap later The Italian was going down.
In the rush of braking at the end of the straight, at the beginning of the sixth lap, Marc Márquez already caught up with Morbidelli to take a podium position and with a few meters of distance from Bagnaia, in addition to starring in the fastest lap of the race and again record with a time of 1:28.056.
Two laps later, on the eighth lap, Marc Márquez once again set a new record by lapping at 1:27.900 to ‘chase’ the slipstream of the bike of a ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia who remained stable in the gaps with respect to Jorge Martín .
Marc Marquez of Spain and the #93 of Gresini Racing MotoGP celebrate after winning the Australian MotoGP at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
At the pace of the fastest lap record again, Marc Márquez caught up with Bagnaia and stuck to the slipstream of his motorcycle to close the gap with Jorge Martín, who on the eleventh lap was barely six tenths of a second ahead.
In the twelfth lap of the race, a mistake by Jorge Martín was taken advantage of by Bagnaia and Márquez to overtake him, but the world championship leader regained the first position moments later, with Marc Márquez who took advantage of those moments to overtake Bagnaia and get in his wake. of Martin.
After the ‘warning’ received, Jorge Martín remained firm in first place, but knowing that Marc Márquez was glued to the wake of his motorcycle and ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia was trying to keep up with the pace at the head of the race, but he was already lapping four tenths of a second slower than them.
Ten laps from the end, on the eighteenth lap, Martín and Márquez already had a two-second advantage over Bagnaia, who maintained another four seconds difference over his chasing group, formed by Morbidelli and also with Enea Bastianini, Brad Binder, Fabio di Giannantonio and Maverick Viñales.
The Spanish rider of Prima Pramac Racing, Jorge Martín, surpasses the Spanish rider of Gresini Racing MotoGP
In front, Marc Márquez remained glued to the slipstream of Jorge Martín’s bike, giving the impression of studying the best moment to overtake the world leader and thus claim his third victory of the season, after those achieved in Motorland Alcañiz and Misano Adriatico .
And so it was that with four laps to go Marc Márquez saw the opportunity and overtook Jorge Martín to lead the race for the first time, but on the Australian straight the world leader took advantage of the power of his motorcycle to regain the position, but again in Turn four of the next lap, Márquez regained first place.
The final two laps were truly heart-stopping, because despite risking a fall that would take away all the advantage he had gained over ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia, Jorge Martín did not throw in the towel and tried to recover, without success, the first position, which ended in hands of the eight-time world champion, with Bagnaia third.
Fourth place went to Fabio di Giannantonio, Enea Bastianini, Franco Morbidelli, which meant six Ducatis in the first six positions, with Brad Binder’s KTM seventh, ahead of Maverick Viñales, Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) and Raúl Fernández (Aprilia RS-GP).
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