Dutch MotoGP: Francesco Bagnaia takes dominant sprint win, Marc Marquez crashes out

Francesco Bagnaia continues hi🍨s dominant weekend at Assen with comfortable sprint win.

Francesco Bagnaia
Francesco Bagnaia

Hoping to make a per🥃fectℱ start, polesitter Francesco Bagnaia did just that as he held onto the lead.

Jorge Martin kept hold of P2 as Alex Marquez moved ahe꧒ad of Maverick Vin🍸ales for third.

Disaster the𝔉n struck Marc Marquez, who after crashing at t🦋he end of Q2, lost control after clipping too much of the inside kerb at turn two [lap two].

Marquez was unable to rejoin the action🌄 as there was too much daཧmage to his GP23.

With Bagnaia and Martin pulling away, Vinales maℱde a decisive move on Alex Marquez at the final chicane to gain P3.

Vinales began catching the top two but lap times were ✨very tight which wa♛s making it hard for the Aprilia rider to make enough of an impact.

Alex Rins joined Marc Marquez in crashing out of the sp🍬rint race on lap nine, while at the fr🐠ont, Bagnaia now had a lead of over one second.

Further back, Enea Bastianini was making i🐷mpressive progress as he overtook Binder and A. Marquez for P4 on lap nine.

Leading the battle for fifth, Alex Marquezဣ was awarded a Long Lap penalty due to exceeding track limits.

On the final lap Aleix Espargaro suffe༒red a monster crash in the final sector, while Bagnaia came across the line with a comfortable margin over Martin and Vinales.

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