168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez has been handed due credit for the way he fended off 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta in the sprint race at the Americas MotoGP.

Acosta was the loser of a three-rider fight, involving Marquez and Jorge Martin, for the two podium positions beh🍬ind winner Maverick Vinales on Saturday.

The gutsy and in-form Acosta was handed his first major lesson in MotoGP from experienced rivals when he 💟was forced to settle for P4.

Kevin Schwantz, the 1993 world champion from Texas, was in the paddock at the Circuit of the Americas to watch the exciting tꦺ♓ussle.

“It sure looked like [Marquez] was strugglin𓂃g with Pedr🉐o behind him. When he was tight behind him,” Schwantz told TNT Sport.

“Pedro was catching him on the brakes. Then Marqu🤡ez had a moment in the S’s.

“They both seemed 🍬to settle. And it went from theౠre…”

Michael Laverty ಞanalysed: “It seemed like Pedro had speed, with th🐼e move down the inside of Turn 7. Quite aggressive.

“But Marc laid it back over the top of him, as he do🍌es.

“💯Marc said himself ⛄that he didn’t have anything for Maverick, especially in Sector 1.

“But he knew that he had a little more when Pedro attacked him. He put his head down, and got a𝓀 little bit of a comfort zone.”

Marquez finished second behind Vinales. Martin secured third, ahead 🍸of Acosta.

Teenage rookie Acosta later admitted that Marquez and 𝄹Martin had been “cleverer” and vowed to learn🔜 from their tricks of the trade, namely the specific moments to push their machine.

Marquez said himself: “I decided to wait for my moment at th💃e front of the group, but when Pedro attacked me I said ‘now is the time’.”

'They let Maverick Vinales get a gap, it was over...'

Aprilia’s Vinales has nowꩵ won consecutive sprint races, in Portimao and Te꧋xas.

“I didn’t expect Maverick - who has struggꦑled with his starts - to get such a fire of a start,” Schwantz said.

“Then, Ped🐲ro, Marc and Martin battling it out for second andꦕ third. They let him get a gap, and it was all over, at that point.

“The battle for second, third and f🐓ourth was tough for a few laps and it let Maverick get a better gap. Game over, in a 10-lapper.”

Vinales, on Sunday in the grand prix, start🐲s 🌠from pole position and has a great chance to become the first-ever rider to win in MotoGP with three different manufacturers.

His sprint victories do not officia♉lly count towards this record.

'Big day' for Jorge Martin despite crashes

Perhaps the under-the-radar winner from Saturday’s🥀 sprint w🧔as Pramac rider Martin.

Des🌳pite crashing twice in qualifying and starting from a lowly sixth, he finished third.

It 🔥﷽was enough to extend the championship lead, which he entered the Americas MotoGP with, two 25 points.

“Coming from sixth on the grid to actually build on his championship lead was a b🔯ig day for him,”ಞ Schwantz said.

“When he crashed twice in qualif𓆏ying, he probably expected worse than that.”