Black day for Jorge Martín. One day after taking the lead in the MotoGP world championship in the sprint race, the Madrid rider suffered a fall when he was leading the Indonesian Grand Prix and had enough margin to not take risks. The Italian Pecco Bagnaia, current champion, did not waste the opportunity, took the victory after a great comeback and is the new leader of the world championship with a 13-point lead. With five races to go, the Italian once again leads the championship.
On a circuit where the tires have suffered a lot, race management was essential. At the start, Martín once again made it clear that he is the fittest driver in the championship. From sixth place, he managed to overtake all of his rivals before the first corner, which he arrived at as the leader of the race.
From there he managed to impose his pace and open a gap with respect to the rest of the drivers, except Maverick Viñales, who went to his wheel. Behind, Pecco Bagnaia, who started in 13th position, was trying to make up positions little by little. Very soon, the Italian managed to get third. At that moment, claiming victory seemed impossible.
However, with 15 laps remaining in the 28-lap race, Jorge Martín made a mistake and crashed. He quickly put his hands to his head, knowing that this would turn the World Cup upside down. The Spaniard’s mishap redoubled Bagnaia’s morale, as lap by lap he closed the gap on Viñales, whom he ended up easily overtaking due to the Spaniard’s tire wear problems.
The race, which did not feature Álex Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), still recovering from the rib injury he suffered in the Indian race, lost two riders in the first three laps due to crashes, Pol Espargaró and Luca Marini.
Moments later, Spaniard Marc Márquez (Honda RC 213 V) also crashed to the ground in turn ten, when he was tenth, and in despair he remained crestfallen leaning on the wall in that area.
On the twentieth lap, Bagnaia achieved his goal and overtook Viñales in turn ten to take the lead and begin to distance himself from the Spaniard, whose problems accumulated, as the Frenchman Quartararo was approaching from behind.
In the end, Bagnaia secured his sixth victory of the season, ahead of a Maverick Viñales who knew how to stop the Frenchman Quartararo, with Alex Rins (Honda RC 213 V), convalescing from his fractured tibia and fibula ninth, ahead of Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia RS-GP) and with Raúl Fernández (Aprilia RS-GP), thirteenth.
