Dutch MotoGP: Francesco Bagnaia untouchable as he completes Assen double

Francesco Ba♎gnaia wins in emphatic fashion again ahead of championship leader Jorge Martin.

Francesco Bagnaia
Francesco Bagnaia

Fꦇrancesco Bagnaia, as he did in the sprint, made the perfect start as he led into turn one while Alex Rins suffered a huge highside.

Despite starting fifth, Jorge Martin wasted no time in g💖etting back into his original grid slot, as he overtook Maverick Vinal🀅es for P2 on the opening lap.

Just behind 🐈the series leader, Vinales then lost another place to a Ducati as Marc Marquez  swept through on lap two at turn five.

On lap three Bagnaia set the fastest lap of the race bef💮ore Martin and Fabio Di Giannantonio went eveཧn quicker.

At the start of lap 4 Marco Bezzecchi crashed at turn five before managing to remount his GP23 b💎ike.

Another fastest lap was pumped in by Martin as he took two tenths ꦐout oꦍf Bagnaia’s lead.

However, the sprint winner responded in emphatic fashion, gaining𝔍 three tenths over Martin on lap 5.

Matching the pace of Bagnaia and M🌄artin, Di Giannantonio made light work of Vinales before taking over P3 from Marc Marquez.

Showing late r𝔉ace pace once again, Enea Bastianini caught the four-rider battle for third, which was still led by Di Gi🎃annantonio with 11 laps to go.

Directly behꦑind Pedro Acosta in seventh💎, Bastianini had a front row seat of the rookier having several close moments on lap 16.

With rain threatening the final few laps, Bastianini continued his charge at turn one as he nudged Marc M🐷ar🍃quez wide to gain P4.

Marquez was pushed off the track which allowed Di꧃ Giannantonio to make a pass, but the Gresini rider responded with a tough move at turn six.

Bastianini then got through on Vinales before slowly pulling away, while a mista♍ke on the final lap from the Aprilia rider gave ♋P4 to Marc Marquez.

Bastianini’s team-mate Bagnaia came across the line to win by over three se✃conds from Martin.

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