Marquez completes total Aragon MotoGP domination
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Marquez completes total Aragon MotoGP domination

by Valentin Khorounzhiy
2 min read

Marc Marquez dominated MotoGP's Aragon Grand Prix to complete a clean sweep of the weekend - having topped every session he participated in starting with Friday's opening practice.

Marquez had kept the lead off the line, and his brother Alex and team-mate Pecco Bagnaia slotted in behind them - with that top three effectively settled in until the finish.


Leading finishers
1 M Marquez
2 A Marquez
3 Bagnaia
Full results at bottom of page


The Marquez brothers looked like making an early breakaway after the start, while Bagnaia soaked up pressure from the KTM works duo of Pedro Acosta and Brad Binder - including a couple of overtaking attempts from Acosta that Bagnaia successfully countered.

Soon enough the momentum of the race shifted, with Alex dropping back from Marc and Bagnaia leaving the KTMs behind to make a run at the Gresini rider.

But any semblance of an attack was weathered here, too, and soon enough the leading trio settled into a run to the flag in formation - Marc a second ahead of Alex (albeit after giving up 1.5s on the final lap), Alex also a second clear.

Acosta could not run the pace of the Ducatis and very briefly looked like he would come under pressure from Binder, only for his team-mate to crash at Turn 3, forfeiting a much-needed top-five finish.

Like Saturday's race, this one ended with a battle between Franco Morbidelli and Fermin Aldeguer - but this one was more heated, featuring two separate instances of contact on the back straight before Aldeguer finally waved the white flag, allowing Morbidelli to take home fifth place.

Joan Mir and a slow-starting Maverick Vinales both made their way through the pack during the race, Mir finding it marginally easier than Vinales - who did catch up to the Honda rider in the end, only to throw his KTM down the escape road at Turn 12, allowing Mir a comfortable run to seventh.

Marco Bezzecchi made slower progress than on Saturday from 20th on the grid, but still took home an eighth-place finish for Aprilia in the end - followed by VR46 Ducati's Fabio Di Giannantonio and Trackhouse Aprilia's Raul Fernandez, in what was probably the latter's most convincing grand prix ride of the season.

Of the 21 participating riders, 18 finished the race - including Vinales, who remounted his bike. 

Joining Binder among the retirements was Johann Zarco, who fell from 13th place, and Fabio Quartararo, whose Turn 1 crash ended a top-10 bid.

Results

1 Marc Marquez (Ducati)
2 Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati) +1.107s
3 Pecco Bagnaia (Ducati) +2.029s
4 Pedro Acosta (KTM) +7.657s
5 Franco Morbidelli (VR46 Ducati) +10.363s
6 Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini Ducati) +11.889s
7 Joan Mir (Honda) +14.938s
8 Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) +16.022s
9 Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati) +18.321s
10 Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse Aprilia) +19.190s
11 Alex Rins (Yamaha) +19.646s
12 Enea Bastianini (Tech3 KTM) +24.624s
13 Augusto Fernandez (Yamaha) +25.986s
14 Jack Miller (Pramac Yamaha) +26.761s
15 Miguel Oliveira (Pramac Yamaha) +27.122s
16 Somkiat Chantra (LCR Honda) + 37.117s
17 Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia) +43.588s
18 Maverick Vinales (Tech3 KTM) +1m26.319s
DNF Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha)
DNF Brad Binder (KTM)
DNF Johann Zarco (LCR Honda)

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