The last race of the season in Valencia is here. For the last race, Álex Márquez brought a special silver livery to celebrate his P2 in the riders championship. While Jorge Martín and Joan Mir had a long lap penalty to serve.

And just as the riders finished the warm-up lap, Aleix Espargaró was hard on brakes, which Franco Morbidelli didn’t expect and crashed. Leaving Morbidelli to start from the pit lane. The start went well for Marco Bezzecchi who was holding on his lead. The first yellow flag was out, this time after an incident between Johann Zarco and Francesco Bagnaia, where Bagnaia crashed out. Fabio Quartararo had a bad start as he dropped to 11th place, while Pedro Acosta was in 5th place. Márquez was holding in 2nd place, and was slowly closing on Bezzecchi.

After the first lap the top 10 looked as following: Bezzecchi, Márquez, Fabio Di Giannantonio, Raúl Fernández, Acosta, Fermín Aldeguer, Mir, Miller, Marini, Brad Binder. Meanwhile Morbidelli retired from the race after the incident. The race stewards announced that Zarco had received a long lap penalty for causing a crash.

In short time, Di Giannantonio lost 2 positions to Fernández and Acosta. On lap 7, Ai Ogura crashed from the race at turn 1. So far, Márquez was behind Bezzecchi, while Raúl Fernández in 3rd place created a gap over 2.5s to Acosta in 4th place.

On lap 11, the top 10 looked as following: Bezzecchi, Márquez, Fernández, Acosta, Di Giannantonio, Miller, Aldeguer, Marini, Binder, Bastianini.

However, at the front, Raúl Fernández caught up to Márquez and even overtook him, moving to 2nd place. Further back was a battle for 10th place between Enea Bastianini and Mir. On lap 16, Jorge Martín retired from the race. Meanwhile Raúl Fernández was slowly catching up to Bezzecchi in the lead.

Acosta in 4th place caught up to Márquez, who was starting to lose the pace. Which he managed to do so on lap 20. With 7 laps to go, the top 10 looked like this: Bezzecchi, Fernández, Acosta, Márquez, Di Giannantonio, Aldeguer, Miller, Marini, Binder, Bastianini.

As if it wasn’t enough, Márquez lost another position, this time to Di Giannantonio, dropping to 5th place. Further back was a battle for 7th between Marini and Miller, as Miller tried to take back his position.

With 4 laps to go, Fabio Quartararo crashed out from the race and Maverick Viñales retired from the race. Meanwhile Di Giannantonio caught up to Acosta in 3rd. Meanwhile, Di Giannantonio overtook Acosta, moving to the last podium position.

Entering the last lap. There were 17 riders left on track. Marco Bezzecchi safely brought in his race victory, with Fernández in 2nd and Di Giannantonio rounding out the podium.

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