One of only three riders using a soft rear tyre, Jorge Martin made the perfect start from pole as he led into turn 🔯one from Brad Binder.

After ov✱ercoming his Q1 appearance, Francesco Bagnaia also got away well from third but immediately🦩 lost touch with the two leaders.

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In the form of his life, Fabio Di Gi🔴annantonio made light work of Bagnaia at the start of lap three as he made an overtake at turn two.

Contin✨uing to struggle with the pace of the top three, Bagnaia then came under pressure from Johann Zarco, Marc Marquez and Aleix Espargaro. 

At the front, Martin was continuing to show no signs of slo🦩wing down as his lead grew to over two seconds with 10 laps gone. 

Joa🍌n Mir was the first rider to crash after going down at turn four following contact with Luca Ma💧rini. The Incident was reviewed but no further action was the call from race direction.

On lap 13 (two laps after Mir’s fa🎃ll), Augusto Fernandez was the next rider to suffer a fall at turn four. 

With Martin’s lead over three seconds, the battle for second was heating up as Di Giannantonio p🌄ulled clear of Bagnaia again before hu꧋nting down Binder.

Di Giannantonio then made another brilliant overtake as he came through on Binder w𝓡ith nine laps to go.

After finding a way through on Binder, Di Giannantonio took four tenths out of Martin’s lead on laps 20 and 21.&nbs♛p;

Despite respꦦonding with a grea꧙t move on Di Giannantonio for second, Binder took four tenths out of Martin with five laps to go. 

Another big lap with three t🦄o go saw Binder close the lead down to 1.2 seconds, while Zarco was through on Di Giannantonio for third. 

Zarco ♎then did Martin a huge favour as he picked off Binder on the pen𓄧ultimate lap, however, Martin’s struggles were just too big as Zarco had no choice but to attack his team-mate.

Zarco came through on Martin at turn four on the final lap,♈♔ while Bagnaia came through in the process. Martin, who lead every lap until that point, was eventually pushed down to fifth.