By Lisa Lewis

Moto3 world champion Sandro Cortese took his fiftꩵh win of the season by 2.108s at Phillip Island on Sunday, marking his first ever back-to-back victories and equaling Maverick Vinales for race wins this year.

Haܫiling it "the best weekend of the whole year" Cortese also equals the recor🌜d for the most lightweight podiums in a season (14) set by Alvaro Bautista in 2006 and also matched by Nico Terol in his 125cc championship runner-up year.

The Red Bull KTM Ajo rider timed his move to the fr🍸ont with perfection, with only Portuguese Suter Honda 🌃rider Miguel Oliveira to concern him over the closing stages, the Estrella Galicia rider eventually settling for second.

Oliveira said that he managed his best ever result even though he "couldn't get the grip he wanted" adding that the race had been꧙ "a lot of fun".

The battle for the final podium spot came down to the line with third-to-sixth places within a t﷽enth of each ꦯother.

Home rider and Cortese's team-mate Arthur Sissis snatched the position scoring ღa best ever result, the Australian saying in parc ferme that he was "really happy - I was screaming in my helmet".

Crossing the line fourth was Oliveira's Spanish team-mate Alex Rins who increases his lead over Team Italia's Romano Fenati t♐o five points in their battle for rookie of the year.

Fenati was just behind in sixth, w🅷ith Danny Kent finishing bet🍬ween the rivals for the Red Bull KTM team.

The fabric of the race was changed early on when it was announced that Jonas Folger (Mapfre Aspar) Luis Salom (RW Racing GP) Alberto Moncayo (Andalucia JHK t-Shirt Laglisse) Louis Rossi (Racing Team Germany) and Jack Miller (Caretta Technology) had all been handed ride-through penalties for jump starts, Rossi then added to his woes by riding off track as the penalty was announ💟ced.

Folger recovered to finish 11th with Salom also recovering a point to help himꦡ in ♔his bid to retain second in the championship.

Team Italia 𒆙FMI rider Alessandro Tonucci was sev꧙enth, while Efren Vazquez front row start lead to an eighth place finish for the Laglisse team.

Alex Marquez took the flag in ninth for the Ambrogio Next team with Isaac Vinales finishing in the t𒐪op ten for Ongetta♊-Centro Seta.

Alܫso in the points were Adri🌟an Martin in 12th ( T-shirt Laglisse) Jakub Kornfeil in 13th (Redo- Ongetta-Centro Seta) and Brad Binder (RW Racing) in 14th.

Zulfahmi Khairuddin's 50th Grand Prix start♔ ended with the bike locking up and throwing him off after seeming to have a techical issue earlier in the lap.

Maverick Vinales also had an eventful race, crashing out at Siberia on the Blusens Avintia with eight laps to g♈o, he returned to the pits with his fairing hanging off and the ECU broken.

John McPhee was 19th for Caretta Technology KRP Honda, wild-card and fellow Brit Sam Clarke 25th for Frontline GP Racing while Danny Webb withdrew earlier in the weekendℱ due to aౠ lack of spare parts for his Mahindra.

Gresini's Niccolo Antonelli was declared unfit to ra💫c𝔉e after his accident in the third free practice session.