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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin beats Brad Binder to win the 2023 Japanese MotoGP Sprint race at Motegi, moving the Pramac Ducati rider to within 8 points of Francesco Bagn༺aia and ൩the title lead.

Bagnaia slugged it out with former ▨Ducati team-mate Jack Miller for third, levering the final podium place away from the KTM rider in the closing laps.

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Martin shot away from pole while Binder slotted into third behind team-mate Miller, then passed the Australian at the end of the opening lap. The leading pair pulled away but Binder, riding with the new carbon fibre chassis, couldn’t quite stay within sꦛtriking distance of the Spaniard.

2022 winner Miller spent much of the race fending off Bagnaia. The Ducati star tried on the brakes with 4 laps to go, Miller succe🍃ssfully resisted but Bagnaia made it work under acceleration not long after.

Martin has now taken points o🔴ff Bagnaia for the past six races ༒in a row.

Third in the world championship🧜 Marco Bezzecchi lost further ground, the VR46 rider – who suffered a big accident in qualifying – dropping to sixth on lap one, then losing another place to Johann Zarco.

But the Italian fought back, re-passi♈ng Zarco and snatching fifth from a fading Marc Marquez on the brakes... But they both ran wide, allowing Zarco to cut under them both.

Bezzecchi tried again and passed Marquez o🃏n the pe൩nultimate lap, but Zarco was out of reach.

Marquez’s Repsol Honda team-mate Joan Mir was the next best Japanese machine 🍨in 13th. Fabio Quartararo was the top Yamaha in 15th, having dropped to 18th on the opening lap.

Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro retired with a techni🔯cal is♒sue, after being seen raising his hand on the back straight.

Yamaha wild-card Cal Crutchlow was given a long⛎ lap penalty for exceeding track limits.

All riders chose the hard front and soft rea♛r tyre options, cruising to the grid to save every drop of♐ fuel.

Senior Ducati management, including Gigi Dall’Igna, were seen gathere♍d around Martin’s pole bike on the grid 🔯suggesting possible technical concerns.

However, they soon disℱpersed, apparently happy, wi♐th Dall’Igna giving an ‘all OK’ tap on the shoulder to watching MotoGP technical director Danny Aldridge.

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Reigning MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia came🐷 into the Sprint leading the standings by just 13 points over Jorge Martin after a costly fall in last Sunday’s Indian Grand Prix, where a dominant victory for Marco Bezzecchi m⛄oved the VR46 rider to within 44 points of the top.

But the inaugural Buddh event also took its🔯 toll on the full-time riders,💞 with two more - Alex Marquez (ribs) and Luca Marini (collarbone) - suffering fractures that will see them join Enea Bastianini in missing this weekend’s Motegi round.

꧃Alex Rins, sidelined since Mugello in May due to leg fractures, attempted a return in Friday practice before being declared unfit due to the pain in his right leg.

HRC test rider Stefan Bradl took over from Rins, with Ducati test rider Michele P🌠irro continuing in place of Ba🍰stianini at Ducati.

Also𝐆 on track is Yamaha test rider Cal Crutchlow, making hi💖s first official wild-card appearance since retiring at the end of 2020. The 37-year-old Englishman made ten starts as a replacement rider for Yamaha during 2021 and 2022, with a best race finish of 12th at Sepang last year.

Joan Mir will have one 2024 Honda prototype this weekend🔴, as debuted at the Misano test, while factory KTM riders Brad Binder - fastest on Friday - and Jack Miller have the factory's new carbon ✅fibre chassis available.