The Sunday Grand Prix started with a quick warm-up lap and sunny weather. As the riders finished, the race started. And just like yesterday, Bagnaia had an incredible start; on the other hand, Morbidelli had a bad start and dropped behind. Pedro Acosta, after the start, was able to get to 2nd place, only for Alex Márquez to overtake him and improve his position. Joan Mir was trailing in 7th place, trying to overtake Morbidelli who had dropped down.

After the first lap, the top 10 looked as follows: Bagnaia, Márquez, Acosta, Quartararo, Aldeguer, Morbidelli, Mir, Zarco, Marini, Di Giannantonio.

On lap 2, Márquez overtook Bagnaia, taking the lead of the race. Even when it for a moment looked like he would not be in the lead for long, he was able to pull off. However, Pedro Acosta used the fight to catch up, and he was trailing Bagnaia close behind. After many attempts, Joan Mir was finally able to overtake Morbidelli, and going into Turn 1, he even overtook Aldeguer, who ran wide and lost another position to Morbidelli.

On lap 3, Acosta attacked on Bagnaia into turn 4, but only for a moment, as Bagnaia was able to retake his position into the next turn. The tyre configuration was soft front and soft rear, besides a few, like Bagnaia, who chose to have a medium front tyre. And as the laps went on, Acosta attacked on Bagnaia, only for Bagnaia to retake the position into the next turn, making it an incredible fight to watch.

On lap 5, there was the first yellow flag of the race, caused by Pol Espargaro crashing at sector 2. Meanwhile, at the front, Alex had a gap of almost a second to Bagnaia in second. The top 10 looked as follows: Márquez, Bagnaia, Acosta, Quartararo, Mir, Morbidelli, Aldeguer, Zarco, Marini, Di Giannantonio.

On lap 9, Di Giannantonio was able to overtake Marini and improve his position to 9th place. Meanwhile, Acosta was still riding behind Bagnaia, and this duo had a gap of 2 seconds to Quartararo in 4th place.

On lap 10, Mir managed to overtake Quartararo, whom he was trailing for many laps. Meanwhile, at the front, Acosta dangerously caught up to Bagnaia. As lap 11 started, a second yellow flag made an appearance, this time caused by Miguel Oliveira crashing at sector 1. Shortly after, a third yellow flag was out, where Raul Fernandez crashed out at sector 1 as well.

On lap 13, Quartararo made a mistake, which allowed Morbidelli to catch up and overtake him. And Pedro Acosta, who had been attacking and trailing Bagnaia for many laps, was able to overtake him and hold 2nd position.

On lap 15, the top 10 looked as follows: Márquez, Acosta, Bagnaia, Mir, Morbidelli, Quartararo, Aldeguer, Di Giannantonio, Zarco, Marini. However, Quartararo started to fall back as the classical tyre degradation problem started to hit his Yamaha.

Going into lap 16, there was a fight between Zarco and Marini, who was trying to overtake him, but since he hadn’t new tyres, it was harder for him. Just as lap 17 started, there was another yellow flag, this one was by Fermín Aldeguer crashing at sector 4. And Bagnaia ran wide off the track, and it looked like a technical problem, as he rode slowly and went to the pits.

Meanwhile, Márquez at the front had a gap of over 2 seconds to Acosta in 2nd place. Further back, Zarco was defending his position from Brad Binder. But not for long, as shortly after, Binder overtook him. But still, Zarco lost another two positions to riders behind him.

With 2 laps to go, the top 10 looked as follows: Márquez, Acosta, Mir, Morbidelli, Quartararo, Di Giannantonio, Bastianini, Marini, Binder, Ogura.

And as the race entered the last lap, there weren’t any overtakes going on. Alex safely brought home his third win of the season, while Acosta finished in 2nd and Joan Mir rounded out the podium.

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