* Rookie

** One place penalty.forexceeding track limits on final lap.

Satellite star Enea Bastianini takes his second victory o🐠f the 2022 MotoGP se🐼ason at the Americas MotoGP in Austin, Texas.

The Gresini rider thus becomes the first r🐬epeat winner of the year and𓆉 retakes the world championship lead.

After leading most of the race before Bastianini's pass, Jack Miller's fortunes got worse when Alex Rins snatched second place with just two corners to go. Nonetheless, it was the Australian's first 𝔉podium of the season, becoming the tenth different rider this season.

Meanwhile,✨ Marc Marquez's hopes of an eighth COTA win ended with a nightmare star🍌t.

Jorge Martin, who headed an all-Ducati top five in qualifyin𓆏g, had lost out to Miller at Turn 1 with the fellow Desmosedicis of Bastianini, Francesco Bagnaia and Johann Zarco slotting in behind the Pramac rider.

Rins - the only other Austin MotoGP winner on the starting grid, courtesy of a 2019 victory after Marc Marquez fell from the lead - lined-up on the thi🅷rd row, but was soon challenging Yamaha's reigning champion Fabio Quartararo for best of the rest behin🐻d the Ducatis.

After getting the better of Quartararo, Rins gatecrashed the Ducati party by passing Bagnaia for fifth on lap 7 of 20, then wresꦰtled fourth from Zarco just before the midway stage.

Bastianini was Rins' next target but used the GP21's straight-line speed to keep th☂e GSX-RR at bay. W꧑hen Bastianini snatched second from Martin, Rins followed to put the pair on the podium with just under half the race to go.

By then, Rins' team-mate Joan Mir was also making an impression on the lead group, passing Bagnaia and ൲then Martin to reach fourth.

What happened to COTA king Marc Marquez?

Ninth on the grid, 'COTA king' Marc Marqu♚ez needed a strong start to keep his hopes of an eighth Austin victory alive. Instead he got the worst ge꧅taway of his career (presumably due to a technical isssue) leaving him 24th and last at turn one.

The Repsol Honda star, competing in his first race since the Qatar opener after𓂃 missing Mandalika and Argentina due to double-vision problems caused by a huge accident in Indonesia, was up to 18th by the end of lap 1 and 14th by lap 3.

Lapping faster than the race leaders, Marquez duly broke into the top ten on lap 7 by passing team-mate Pol Espargaro. After breaking the official lap record, the #93 overtook Frenchmen Zarco and Quartararo in quick succession (Quartararo forcing Zarco wide) for seventh place with 7 laps to go▨𝓰.

Martin was Marquez's next victim, with Quartararo seemingly inspired by the sight of Marquez just ahead and locking on to the RC213V's rear wheel for the closing 💟stages. The Frenchman even momentairly passed🍬 the Honda star before they crossed the line in sixth and seventh.

Pramac team-m🌸ates Martin and ꦉZarco faded to eighth and ninth.

Aleix Espargaro, world championship leader after claiming Aprilia's first MotoGP victory a week earlie💝r in Argentina,🎃 began the race from 13th, just ahead of team-mate and warm-up leader Maverick Vinales.

Despite strong p💜ace in pꦡractice, neither RS-GP rider could make an impression on the front of the race, although Vinales put on a late charge to pass Espargaro for tenth.

Brad Binder was the top KTM in﷽ twelfth after a difficult weekend for all the RC16s.

As expected, almost all riders chose ✤the hard fr꧟ont and soft rear tyre combinations, the only exceptions being a medium rear for KTM riders Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez.

Subsurface soil movement means large bumps have been a persistent issue at COTA, resulting in the lat🐼est partial resurfacing for the 2022 event, covering Turns 2-10 and 12-16.

Round𝔍 five of the season, and the opening European round, will take place at Portimao in Portugal on April 22-24.