MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez completed a clean sweep of the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, following up a sprint win with a combative triumph in the main race.
The works Ducatis ran a special Renaissance-themed livery for the race and put on a show in the early laps with the aid of Marc Marquez, but Bagnaia faded badly and ended up off the podium.
There was no repeat of Saturday's start drama off the line for Marquez, but he came under attack anyway and was pounced on by Bagnaia at Turn 2, Luco.
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It was the appetiser for the multi-lap dogfight that followed, with the two Marquez brothers and Bagnaia repeatedly swapping positions in the slipstream on the main straight and hammering the brakes into San Donato - while there was also a Marc Marquez attack on Bagnaia into Materassi that led to the latter hitting his team-mate's rear wheel while trying to get a better exit out of Borgo San Lorenzo.
The contact dropped Bagnaia behind the other Marquez, but he was back into the lead soon enough - and then back into third shortly after that, with Alex Marquez taking second place round the outside of San Donato and the lead into Poggio Secco, and then his brother following him through into second on the main straight.
Two laps later Marc overtook Alex out front and this time no swift counter-attack followed, with the championship leader soon enough dropping both of his pursuers.
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He ended up finishing two seconds clear of Alex after 23 laps, the pair now split by 40 points in the standings.
Bagnaia at one point looked like he might at least get second place, but that challenge was short-lived and he instead came under attack from a charging Fabio Di Giannantonio - also in a special-liveried bike, with VR46 promoting a new album by Italian singer Cesare Cremonini this weekend.
Di Giannantonio reeled in Bagnaia and set up the move going downhill through Casanova on the penultimate lap, finishing it off at Savelli, with Bagnaia immediately surrendering.
Di Giannantonio then nearly caught the second of the Marquezes, too, coming up two tenths short.
Bagnaia's fourth-place finish leaves him 110 points off the championship lead.
Marco Bezzecchi was a lonely fifth on the Aprilia, with two other RS-GPs joining him in the top 10.Tech3 KTM's Maverick Vinales looked set to join the podium battle after overtaking Franco Morbidelli at the first corner of the ninth lap, but was removed from the race by Morbidelli's counter-attack three corners later - an overly ambitious lunge down the inside at Materassi that left Vinales bewildered in the gravel.
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Morbidelli was swiftly issued a long-lap penalty, served it incorrectly - wide in the loop - and served it again, dropping to seventh. But he re-overtook Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse Aprilia) to bring the bike home in sixth.
Fernandez took seventh to end what may have been the best - or at least the most important - MotoGP weekend of his career so far, followed by the works KTM duo of Pedro Acosta and Brad Binder, 0.028s apart at the line.
Fernandez's Ai Ogura marked his return from injury with a 10th-place grand prix finish.
Ogura's rookie of the year rival Fermin Aldeguer had to fight through from the back after having to go off-track to avoid clattering into Bezzecchi on the third lap - but had the pace to salvage 12th in the end, behind the leading Honda, that of Joan Mir.
Aldeguer worked his way past the Yamahas of Fabio Quartararo and Miguel Oliveira late on, with Oliveira then beating a fading Quartararo by 0.007s on the run to the line.
Somkiat Chantra (LCR Honda), like Morbidelli, served a double long lap, albeit this one was assessed for a grid prodecure breach. He ended up finishing a worrying 70 seconds off the winner.
Johann Zarco (LCR Honda) and Enea Bastianini (Tech3 KTM) crashed out of the race early on, while Jack Miller (Pramac Yamaha) pulled over in the pits for a yet undisclosed reason.
