Beautiful duels for the podium, a great result for Ducati, a lifetime result for Marini! Who won the Austrian MotoGP GP?

The MotoGP Royal Cubature has already had its thirteenth race of the season and it was an extremely interesting race! Fans watched a lot of great battles for the win and podium, with the winner of qualifying dropping out on the sixth lap of the race. So who won the Austrian Grand Prix?

Enea Bastianini, who celebrated his first MotoGP qualifying victory on Saturday, started the Austrian Grand Prix from the top position and was joined on the front row by the two Ducati factory riders, Francesco Bagnaia and Jack Miller.

Jorge Martin then started from fourth, with reigning champion Fabio Quartararo in fifth and Johann Zarco rounding out the second row. Maverick Viñales, Joan Mir, Aleix Espargaro and Fabio di Giannantonio – that’s how the rest of the elite ten looked at the start of the Austrian Grand Prix.

After all the lights went out, the Italian Bagnaia took the top spot, overtaking Bastianini on the Gresini Racing team’s bike at the opening corner. Australian Miller also tried to attack him, but was unsuccessful.

Already on the first lap, the fans in the stands and on the TV screens witnessed the first accident when Suzuki rider Joan Mir crashed in turn four. On lap four, Miller successfully got past second-placed Bastianini, who then had another beautiful battle with Martin on the Pramac.

Several riding mistakes were made by the riders in the incriminating first corner, and on lap five the mistake dropped the Spaniard Viñales to eighth place. One lap later, Remy Gardner imitated Miro, but was able to continue the race after crashing in Turn 4.

On lap 6, the aforementioned Bastianini went off the track and dropped to the very back of the field. However, his off-track exit was caused by technical problems with his front wheel.

Bagnaia, Miller, Martin, Quartararo, Aleix Espargaro, Viñales, Marini, Zarco, Rins and Brad Binder – this is how the order of the elite ten looked after 8 laps of the Austrian Grand Prix.

Other riders who didn’t see the finish of the 13th round of this MotoGP season were Takaaki Nakagami and Darryn Binder. The former crashed out on lap eleven, while Binder fell out on lap fourteen.

The top 10 order after 15 laps of the race was therefore as follows – Bagnaia, Miller, Martin, Quartararo, Aleix Espargaro, Marini, Viñales, Zarco, Rins and Brad Binder.

Later in the Austrian Grand Prix, the Aprilia riders began to suffer from the soft rear compound they had fitted. Both Viñales and Aleix Espargaro were losing power due to rear tyre wear.

For the last few laps, Quartararo was catching second-placed Miller in third, with Martin entering the ensuing battle for the podium.

The reigning world champion then pulled off a spectacular manoeuvre at turn two with four laps to go to take second place from Miller.

Thanks to the battle for the podium, the Bagnaia leader took a 1.6-second lead and, despite closing the gap to the front, took the last two laps to claim his third consecutive victory. It should be noted, Bagnaia had never won in Austria until now.

At the start of the last 28 laps, Jorge Martin crashed in turn one and finished the Austrian Grand Prix in tenth place. Incidentally, you can see the final Austrian GP standings in the attached Twitter post below.

It should be added, the result of a lifetime was recorded by Luca Marini, brother of Valentino Rossi, who finished fourth. Yamaha, on the other hand, continues its not-so-good record here at the Red Bull Ring. In fact, the Japanese team has never won in Austria, and this year even the Frenchman Quartararo has not changed that.

Source: MotoGP