Alex Rins wins in Australia, and Márquez gets his first podium

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Marco Bezzecchi, Alex Rins and Marc Márquez starred in an intense duel during the last laps

Fabio Quartararo made a mistake that led him to lose the leadership of the world championship

The Spanish Alex Rins (Suzuki GSX RR) took his first victory of the season by winning the at the Phillip Island circuit, where the Spanish rider (Repsol Honda RC 213 V) got his first podium after the fourth surgery he had to undergo on his right arm, and the Italian (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) is the new leader of the championship.

The French (Yamaha YZR M 1) made a mistake during the race which caused him to lose many positions and in his attempt to come back he ended up rolling on the ground and losing the championship lead, in which he is now second 14 points behind Bagnaia.

Neither Jorge Martín (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) nor Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda RC 213 V) failed at the time of the start, when the Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) was also right, but not the Italian “Pecco” Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), who lost some positionsbut it was soon possible in the wake of the first two.

Both Martín and Márquez hit a very strong pull on the opening lap which already allowed them to open a small gap with respect to their pursuers, where Bagnaia was in charge of chasing them with Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia RS-GP) close to him and Quartararo seemed to lose some “comba”, also surpassed by the Australian Jack Miller (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), which yesterday received the “gift” of having turn four of the track named after him.

Martín, author of the best practice time, endured the type at the head of the race with a very strong pace that caused the first big surprise to be carried out by the world leader, the French Fabio Quartararo, who slipped into turn four on lap four and although he was able to avoid the fall, he returned to the track in twenty-second position, with which he literally lost the leadership of the championship at the hands of Bagnaia, who at that time was third “shagged” by his own teammate, the “local” Miller.

From behind, the Spaniard Alex Rins (Suzuki GSX RR) also reached the top positions, who overtook Aleix Espargaró to follow in the wake of the two official Ducati riders, Bagnaia, who had passed Miller again on the very finish straight and that he couldn’t hold out for long against Alex Rins, who overtook him on the seventh lap.

The recovery of Alex Rins, who started from tenth position, was spectaculargiving account of his rivals with spectacular and almost relentless overtaking, because on the eighth lap he placed third after overtaking the Italian Bagnaia, to begin “the hunt” for the leading duo.

One lap later Jack Miller, inexplicably losing positions, was involved in a crash at turn fourprecisely the curve to which his name was put yesterday, with the Spanish Alex Márquez (Honda RC 213 V), who touched him from behind and both ended up on the ground.

Ahead, the advantage of Jorge Martín and Marc Márquez disappeared completely with the arrival of Alex Rins, who took Bagnaia, Aleix Espargaró and Marco Bezzecchi in his wake (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) in the first instance, while behind Fabio Quartararo he crashed in turn two of the eleventh lap when he had come back to fifteenth place.

Rins overtook Márquez on the twelfth lap and two laps later, on the fourteenth, He also defeated Jorge Martín to become the leader for the first timewhile Bagnaia also gave a good account of both the Repsol Honda rider and Martín to get behind the wheel of the Suzuki rider, although the margin between all of them continued to be practically non-existent.

This is how the fifteenth lap was reached, in which Bagnaia took advantage of the speed of his Ducati to take the lead at the end of the straight, and he must have seen something in that overtaking Marc Márquez who did not take more than a couple of corners to overtake Alex Rins to try to prevent the Italian from leaving alone.

The race could still hold quite a few surprises, with the top five finishers in just seven tenths of a second, although Bagnaia was in charge of setting the pace almost at all timeschased by Rins, Martín and Márquez in the eighteenth lap, still with nine to go.

And that was the moment, from the eighteenth lap, when many pilots predicted that tire performance would drop.

On the twentieth lap, Alex Rins took the initiative again, overtaking Bagnaia to take the lead, but once again at the end of the straight the Italian returned the overtaking to fall to fourth place, also surpassed by Marco Bezzecchi, who came quickly from behind, and Marc Márquez. There were barely six laps left and six riders in the lead among which any of them could achieve victory and who “in extremis” was joined by the Italian Enea “The Beast” Bastianini (Ducati Desmosedici GP21).

There was absolutely no kind of concession between the leading riders, who reached the last lap with Bagnaia in front, who could not prevent both Alex Rins and Marc Márquez from overtaking him and although Repsol Honda’s tried until the last corner to beat Suzuki’sRins, could be done with the first victory of the season, Márquez with his first podium since he returned after his fourth surgery and Bagnaia with the leadership of the world championship.

Jorge Martín finished in seventh place, with in a discreet ninth position which makes him move away from the fight for the championship, in which he is now 27 points behind the leader and 13 behind Quartararo.

Pol Espargaró (Repsol Honda RC 213 V) was eleventhwith Raúl Fernández (KTM RC 16), sixteenth, Maverick Viñales (Aprilia RS-GP), seventeenth, and Joan Mir (Suzuki GSX RR), eighteenth.



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