Francesco Bagnaia’s perfect weekend in Assen showed no signs of slowing down in the sprint race as he led every lap en rout🌃e to a secཧond consecutive sprint win.

After mistakes o𓄧r bad luck plagued his early seasonജ sprints, Bagnaia has hit back with a bang including Assen where he was untouched following his lap record in qualifying.

Jorge Martin was able to stay close during the opening stages, however, Bagn💙aia’s pace was too hot to handle around the mid-race point.

Speaking about his race, Bagnaia said: “I feel fantastic. I love this track. I topped every session until now so anythi𒉰ng more than this is impossible.

“We still have tomඣorrow which is the main target so it will be important to make the same start and t♐ry to control the race.

“Today wasn’t e♛asy because Martin was really strong at the start so I pushed a lot but I was trying to understand the rear tyre and whether it is possible to rac🌠e with the soft tomorrow.

“I did the maximum and the bike is working perfec💦tly. It’s something that we built on in the last races and it’s working super well.”

Prior to pulling away, Bagnaia looked to be c🅠omfortable with Martin behind him.

However, the factory Ducati rider admitted he was pushing at all times, even though some laps it w🔯as done with control.

Bagnaia said: “As soon as I started [🍰the race] I started to push a lot to build an advantage.

“I 𓆉finished the first lap with 0.4s and then I just tried to push a bit but under control. It was easy to make mistakes today with the temperature and the tyres were quite difficult to manage.

“But the pace was incredible. I did a 1m 32s on the last lap, otherwise it was the p❀erfect race under the 32s.”