168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez has been handed due credit for the way he fended off 168澳洲5最新开奖结果: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 tw🐓o podium positions behind winner Ma🦩verick 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 from𒉰 Texas, was in the paddock at the Circuit o🃏f the Americas to watch the exciting tussle.

“It sure looked like [Marquez] was struಌggling with Pedro behind him. When he was tight behind him,” Schwantz﷽ told TNT Sport.

“P𒐪edro was catching him on the brakes. Then Marquez h🔴ad a moment in the S’s.

“They bot🔯h seemed to settle. And it went from there…”

Michael L🍷averty analysed: “It seemed like Pedro had speed, with the move down the inside of Turn 7. Quite aggressive.

“But Marc laid iꦫt back over the top ಞof him, as he does.

ꦇ“Marc said himself that he didn’t have anythiꦍng 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 a little bit of a comfort zone.”

Marquez finished second beh𝓡ind Vinales. M♎artin secured third, ahead of Acosta.

Teenage rookie Acosta later admitted t༒hat 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 the front of the ꦓgroup, 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 now won consecutive sprint races, in Porﷺtimao and Texas.

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

“Then, Pedro, Marc and Martin battling it out for secondඣ and third. They let him get a gap, and it was all over, at that point.

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

Vinales, on Sunda🐷y in the gran♚d prix, starts from pole position and has a great chance to become the first-ever rider to win in MotoGP with three different manufacturers.

His sprint victor🌼ies do not officially count towards this recor꧟d.

'Big day' for Jorge Martin despite crashes

Perhaps the under-the-radar winn𒀰er from Saturday’s sprint was Pramac rid♏er Martin.

♊Despite crashing twice in qualifying and starting from a lowly sixth, he finished third.

It was enough to extend the champ🌱ionship 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 big day for him,” Sch♚wantz said.

“When he crashed twice in qual﷽ifying, he probably expected 🌠worse than that.”