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Francesco Bagnaia became the big winner at the Austrian Grand Prix. After taking pole position and winning the sprint, the MotoGP title defender also secured victory in the main race in Spielberg on Sunday. The Italian sat down on his Ducati clearly ahead of the South African KTM rider Brad Binder, who was second, almost five seconds behind. Third was Italian Marco Bezzecchi (7.708/Ducati).
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As in the sprint, Bagnaia dominated the race at will and was in a class of his own. The Italian took the lead from the start and, after a show of force, didn’t give it up until the end. In the end, the 2022 world champion secured his fifth victory in the tenth race of the season. Overall, it was Bagnaia’s 26th MotoGP win and 50th podium after a perfect performance. Ducati has won eight of the last ten races in Spielberg.
“The conditions were very difficult for everyone. I had a little trouble with the front. We underpinned our potential and took another step forward after the sprint,” said Bagnaia, who extended his championship lead to 62 points at the halfway point in the season. With 251 points, the defending champion and last year’s Spielberg winner is well ahead of his Ducati colleague Jorge Martin (189), who finished seventh after a long-lap penalty that he had picked up in the sprint. Bezzecchi is third (183). As fourth in the World Cup, Binder now has 160 points.
Tausendstelkrimi in Moto3 an Pioneer
In the Moto3 class, Deniz Öncü won a real thousandth thriller. The 20-year-old KTM rider took advantage of a duel between Ayumu Sasaki and Daniel Holgada in the last corner. Öncü took both competitors by surprise and finally prevailed in the last meters. At the finish, he was five thousandths of a second ahead of his brand colleague Holgado.
The Husqvarna pilots Sasaki (+0.119) and Collin Veijer (0.136) landed in third and fourth place. Before that, the Colombian David Alonso (GasGas) retired while in the lead. Jaume Masia (ESP/Honda) retired with a technical defect. In the World Championship standings, the Spaniard Holgado is still the clear leader with 161 points ahead of Sasaki (135). With his second win of the season after the one at the Sachsenring, Öncü moved up to third place with 124 points.
In the Moto2 class, Spaniard Pedro Acosta finished second as Italian Celestino Vietti narrowly missed out on another KTM home win at the Red Bull Ring. The 19-year-old Acosta, who already has a MotoGP contract with KTM in his pocket for next season, nevertheless extended his championship lead. After crossing the finish line, the KTM super talent finished the slow-down lap after a short stop in leather trousers.
Austrian Grand Prix
MotoGP (28 Laps = 121,744 km): 1. Francesco Bagnaia ITA Ducati 42:23,315 2. Brad Binder RSA KTM + 5,191 3. Marco Bezzecchi ITA Ducati 7,708 4. Luca Marini ITA Ducati 10,343 5. Alex Marquez ESP Ducati 11,0 Maverick Vinales ESP Aprilia 11,724 7. Jorge Martin ESP Ducati 12,917 8. Fabio Quartararo FRA Yamaha 19,509 9. Aleix Espargaro ESP Aprilia 20,231 10. Enea Bastianini ITA Ducati 20,729 Moto2 (23 Laps = 100,004 km): 1. Celesti no Vietti ITA Kalex 36:25,093 2. Pedro Acosta ESP Kalex + 1,435 3. Ai Ogura JPN Kalex 5,189 4. Jake Dixon GBR Kalex 6,145 5. Somkiat Chantra THA Kalex 8,635 6. Tony Arbolino ITA Kalex 14,054 7. Filip Salac CZE Kalex 14,492 8. Sergio Garcia ESP Kalex ,445 9. Fermin Aldeguer ESP Boscoscuro 17.178 10. Lukas Tulovic GER Kalex 35.361 Moto3 (20 Laps = 86.96 km): 1. Deniz Öncü TUR KTM 34:04.291 2. Daniel Holgado ESP KTM + 0.0 9 4 . Collin Veijer NED Husqvarna 0.136 5. Ivan Ortola ESP KTM 3.135 6. Ricardo Rossi ITA Honda 5.270 7. Ryusei Yamanaka JPN GasGas 8.137 8. Diogo Moreira BRA KTM 8.382 9. David Munoz ESP KTM 8.453 10. Stefano Nepa NOW KTM 8,615
