Unlike the sprint, Martin made a shocking start as he dropped to ninth place, while title riva♈l Franc꧂esco Bagnaia went from fourth to first. 

Martin𝄹 recovered a position but then quickly came under pressure from Maverick Vinales.

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There was another close moment 🅷between Brad Binder and Marc Marquez, as the KTM rider aggressively came through on lap two. 

A mistake from team-m💝ate Johann Zarco then allowed Martin to come through for seventh ✃position on lap three.

Using Ducati’s incredible top speed to his advantage, Martin then took sixth away from Marc Marquez while Bag🐓naia continued to lead ahead of Fabio Di Giannantonio. 

Alex Marquez quickly followed his team-mate through on Marini which allowed Binderಌ to come through, before the KTM man made that third with an overtake on Ma💧rquez. 

As the race went on, Martin started losing more and more time to the♎ five riders ahead of him.

A 1.3 second gap grew to over two seco💎nds by the end of lap nine, while pressur💙e from Vinales behind was mounting. 

With the writing on the wall, lap 11 was the begꦍinning o𓃲f the end to Martin’s hopes of a good result. 

Vinales came through on Martin before M. Marquez did the꧂ same just a few𒀰 corners later. 

It went from bad to worse for Martin as he was demo🧸ted to ninth after Fabio Quartararo and Jack Miller came through in quick succe💫ssion. 

๊At the front, the lead group was down to two as Bagnaia was unable to break clear of Di Giaꦅnnantonio. 

With four laps to go Di Giannantonio final🐲ly made his move for the lead before a respons looked to be comin🅘g.

Bagnaia tried to respond in turn🍬 one but nearly ran into the Gresini rider which resulted in the reigning world champion running off the track. 

A two second gap was then created as Di Giannantonio went on to secure a comfortable win ahead of Bagnaia and♚ Marini.