Everybody on the ground. It’s not a game but a leitmotif of Sprint Race of the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix. On the trail of Jerez still damp from the morning rain but drying out, lap after lap more than half the field fell. At the end of an elimination race, whoever was left standing won: Jorge Martin with the Ducati Pramac, survived as well as Pedro Acosta with the Ktm e Fabio Quartararo who achieved an unexpected podium with Yamaha.
BREAKING NEWS: It’s a shame, however, that after the various checks at the end of the race the Frenchman was penalized 8 seconds for too low tire pressure and in the end he had to give up the third step of the podium to Pedrosa. who at 38 years old and as a wild card achieved an incredible podium with Ktm.
Festival of crashes in Jerez due to the slippery track. Among those gone down Francesco Bagnaiain fact thrown to the ground by Brad Binder in the early stages of the race, but also Marc Marquez when he was leading with a few laps to go, they then crashed in no particular order Miller, Bezzecchi, Bastianini, BinderAlex Marquez, Marini and Bradl and maybe we forgot someone…
SPRINT RACE SPAIN GP – Binder starts like a slingshot and burns the entire front row including the poleman Marquez. What is he doing with Martin. Martinator takes a few turns to pass Marc and immediately after Binder, setting the pace. Behind them Bagnaia passes Bezzecchi and regains 5th position. In the meantime, Aleix Espargaro and Jack Miller fell on the slippery asphalt. They won’t be the only ones.
Meanwhile, Marquez overtakes Binder in an unorthodox manner. The South African loses pace a bit, is also overtaken by his brother Alex and overtaken by Bezzecchi and Bagnaia. But he doesn’t fit, he tries the double counter-overtaking with a kamikaze-like braking that ends up knocking out Pecco himself who continues his bad moment.
A few bends later Di Giannantonio also goes down. In front, however, Martin is on the run but Marc Marquez feels that it is the right day to win his first race, albeit a Sprint, with Ducati. And he gets hit with fast laps. With 6 laps to go Marc catches Martinator, passes him and goes away.
Are the twists over? Absolutely not. The falls are coming in series. Bastianini, Binder and Alex Marquez start on the ground at the same corner, fighting for the podium. But most of all Marc Marquez goes down who was headed towards victory! And Vinales also falls, at the same point as the previous crashes of Bastianini, Binder and Alex Marquez. Marini and Bradl also went down on an extremely slippery track.
In an elimination race Jorge Martin wins the Sprint Race and extends his lead in the World Championship. On the podium Pedro Acosta 2nd and Fabio Quartararo 3rd with Yamaha. Then a super Pedrosa a few thousandths from the wild card podium who will be rewarded by the penalty for El Diablo, 5th Franco Morbidelli, Raul Fernandez and Marc Marquez, who fell while leading but resumed the race and finished 7th.
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