Valencia MotoGP: Francesco Bagnaia wins his second MotoGP title as Jorge Martin clashes with Marc Marquez
Sta✨rting from pole after a pre-race penalty for Maverick Vinales, Bagnaia made a great launch as he led into turn one.
But his title rivalꦦ Jorge Martin made an equally good start and moved up from sixth to second coming out of turn two.As Martin shaped up for a move on lap three, the Spaniard instead went wide after getting sucked into the slipstream of the series leader.
Martin then dropped to eighth as a result be🤡fore moving back up to sixth at the🐼 third time of asking, following a move on Vinales.
But Martin’s title🎀 hopes were soon dashed as Martin crashed out two cornes late𒁃r when he clipped the rear of Marc Marquez.
The﷽ contact, which was initiated by Martin, resulted in Marquez being violently launched from his Repsol Honda.
With the news that Martin was out, Bagnaia was soon overtaken by both factory KTM riders as Br🅰ad Binder took the lead.
Keen to put his name atop the winning column, Miller was not letting Binder out of his sights while Bagnaia had Johann Z🌠arco for close company as we approached mid-race distance.
Binder then made a huge mistakꦐe on lap 14 as he lost five places afte🃏r going off circuit at turn ten.
Binder’s recovery ride then saᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚw him smash into Alex Marquez at turn four, which resulted in him being asked to drop one position.
Looking set to end a difficult year with a first v🦋ictory for KTM, Miller made a huge mistake as he crashed at turn ♔11.
That handed the lead back to Bagnaia, who still had Zarco fighting him for 𒐪his second win of the season.
The quickest rider on track, Di Giannantonio overtook Binder before rapidly closing in on the fron⛎t two.
With two laps to go Di Giannantonio pounced on Zarco for P2 before hounding Bagnai💃a for the win on th𒉰e final lap.
