MotoGP Argentina: Marco Bezzecchi dominates in the wet as Francesco Bagnaia makes a crucial mistake
Fears for many were realised immediately heading through turn one as Bezzecchi, who was quickest in terms of race pace, led despite Franco M🗹orbidelli a๊ttempting to hang it around the outside.
The Yamaha rider tried to carry speed a🥃round the sweeping turn one, however, Alex Marquez and Francesco Bagnai🔯a got back ahead of the Italian.
Drama unfolded just a few corners later as Binder crashed at turn five following very small contact with Maveric♌k Vinales.
Still on lap one,𒁏 Fabio Quartararo’s disastrous weekend got worse as contact with Takaaki Nakagami resulted in the 2021 world champion being shoved off-traꦍck and dropping down to P16.
Similar conditions to that of his maiden MotoGP pole in Mꦐugello last season, Fabio Di Giannantonio was a big mover during the early stages a﷽s he sat in fifth at the start of lap five.
Following a review from the stewards, no further action was taken regarding the inci⛦dent between Vinales and Binder.
Still on the same lap, MotoGP stewards also decided that no further actiღon was needed between Nakagami and Quartararo.
Not something we expected to see, at least thi🗹s early in the season, was MotoGP rookie Augu♑sto Fernandez complete successful overtakes on Quartararo and Aleix Espargaro in back-to-back corners [lap eight].
At the front, Marᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚquez and Bagna♛ia had no answer for Bezzecchi who continued to turn the screw. A lead that was six tenths during the opening few laps was over 2.5s come the end of lap nine.
His 🔯best performance in Honda colours,ไ LCR rider Alex Rins finally got through on Di Giannantonio for fifth on lap 10, as the Ducati rider then came under intense pressure from Johann Zarco.
After quickly🎐 getting through on Di Giannantonio, which resulted in the Gresini Ducati rider suffering a bizarre drop as Martin and Jack Miller came through just as fast, Zarco instead made further progress as he got into fifth ahead of Rins.
Starting to show more pace than Marquez, Bagnaia tried his first move for second place at turn eight, however, Marquez responded i𒅌mmedi🐠ately.
But Bagnaia was not to be stopped as he o𓄧ut-braked Marquez at the penultimate corner, although he did not pull clear on the next lap around.
Looking super smooth on lap 17, Bagnaia made a rare mistake as he crashed at turn 13. Able to get back ab🌊oard🐟 his factory Ducati, Bagnaia re-joined in 16th and well out of contention.
With his title rival from last season out of the points, Quartararo ꦬwas finding more and more pace as his recovery continued with taking sev🐠enth place away from Rins.
Also on a charge and setting times quicker than any other rider by a full second, was Zarco as he closed in on Morbidelli and Marquez for 🃏the podium with four laps remaining.&n🧜bsp;
Catching ಞMarquez for second, Morbidelli was s🔯till facing more pressure from Zarco which resulted in a small mistake with 2.5 laps remaining.
Zarco then made the most of his brilliant pace by getting through on Marquez at turn four on the final lap, and although he was gaining large amounts of time on the race leader, Bezzecchi contro🧸lled his way through to the finish for a maiden Moto🍸GP win.
