Espargaro won Saturday’s MotoGP sprint afte𓃲r overcoming world champion Francesco🍸 Bagnaia, before going on to do the same against teammate Maverick Vinales.

The Grand Prix was a much tou♏gher race for Espargaro, who admitted he didn’t have the same feeling as the sprint and that he would have settled for secoไnd had it not been his home race. 

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But after managing to beat Vinales to victory ♒thanks to an overtake at turn one (four laps from the end), Espargaro looked back on what the achievement meant.

"I think that today is a very historical moment,"🥃 began the Spaniard. "I’m very proud of Aprilia. Very, very proud because we came from very far away.&൩nbsp;

"Aprilia has to be very pr💯oud of Maverick and me because we together did an amazing and historical job♔. 

👍"It’s not easy to have a good relationship with your teammate when you are fighting for top positions and to develop the bike to fight against your rivals. So🌳, I’m very happy. Congratulations to Aprilia."

Following his battle with Vinales, Espargaro asked the former Yamaha rider to change bikes with him after securing A🌠prilia’s first-ever 1-2 in MotoGP.

A situation we very rarely see, Espargaro added: "When I saw Maverick, I said, “Let’s change the bikes,” he look🐲ed at me like, you’re crazy. 

"I said to myself, I remember at that moment Maverick struggling three years ago, and he was super down. I was talking to him. “You will come to Aprilia.” But obviously, he was not sure, because Aprilia was finishi🍌ng at one minute. 

"But I said to him, “You are very strong.꧒ We’re going to put this bike on top." 

"This is like a present to Aprilia, to ourselves, to belief, to hard work. Teamwork in the end pays off because two strong riders working together, it’s much better th♋an one. 

"Today we proved. This is a present for Romano, Massimo, and everybody back i🐻n Noale."

Sunday’s 1-2 finish was also made pos🎶sible when both factory Aprilia rider avoided the turn one carnage, something Jorge 𝄹Martin managed to do as well before claiming third.

After seein🔯g Francesco Bagnaia lose the lead following a brutal highside, Martin did his best to avoid the Italian which Brad Binder was unable to do as he ran over Bagnaia’s legs.

"I saw him highside," stated Martin. "It’s really unusual nowadays in MotoGP. It was re🦹ally strange. Then I braked so, so hard trying to avoid touching him. 

"Then as soon as I braked, I felt a big hit from the back from 🎉Brad, I guess. 

"Then I saw that he went through Pecco’s leg. S𝔉o at that point, I was a bit scared. Then all the oil was coming ontܫo my visor and on my bike. 

"I thought th🎃e best thing was to go in. I tried to make the movement of the flag. After that, my swing arm was broken, my exhaust pipe also. 

"♎So I had to go to my second bike that I didn’t really like during the weekend."