Marco Bezzecchi beat championship chief and fellow Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia into second place on the Dutch GP, with Fabio Quartararo taking a shock podium for Yamaha.
Though Bezzecchi briefly misplaced the lead from pole place, the person who had dominated the complete weekend was quickly again previous Bagnaia. And the reigning world champion, who had began second, had no reply.
The consequence consolidates Bezzecchi’s maintain on third within the standings, with Bagnaia nonetheless main Pramac Ducati’s Jorge Martin. Bagnaia’s benefit has been stretched to 21 factors following the sprint race, with Martin solely capable of end sixth.
All the frontrunners opted for a mix of laborious entrance tyre and comfortable rear. And when the lights turned inexperienced, Bezzecchi misplaced out not solely to Bagnaia on the first nook, but additionally to the opportunistic, fast-starting Brad Binder.
But it was solely a lap later that the Italian was previous the KTM rider, and Bezzecchi was then free to go after his countryman and Ducati rival Bagnaia. He promptly set the quickest lap of the race on lap three.
The battle had barely obtained going earlier than it was over. Bagnaia ran extensive on the fourth lap and nearly misplaced the lead into Turn 5. He held on, however Bezzecchi merely blast previous him on the exit.
Though the lead remained a slender one for the remainder of the race, and hovered largely simply beneath the one-second mark, Bezzecchi was capable of management it from there to the flag.
Bagnaia was ultimately capable of shake off the likes of Binder, Quartararo and Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro, although his margin to the chasers was hardly comfy both.
The scrap between Binder, Quartaro and Espargaro by no means actually ignited within the final lap, and the trio crossed the road in that order.
Binder would quickly be disenchanted, nevertheless. He was issued a three-second penalty for exceeding observe limits, selling Quartararo to a podium place that gave some much-needed pleasure to the Yamaha camp.
It additionally meant fourth place for Espargaro, with Binder categorised fifth following the penalty.
Martin spent a while battling with Binder, Quartararo and Espargaro, however dropped again nearly three seconds behind them by the flag, with Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales lower than a second additional again in seventh.
Luca Marini had a foul begin from third on the grid behind Bezzecchi and Bagnaia, dropping to fifth on the first nook. He then fell additional down the sector to an eventual 10th place after being handed a 0.5s penalty for taking a shortcut.
Johann Zarco ran as excessive as seventh early on, however struggled for velocity along with his medium entrance tyre and trailed dwelling 13th. Miguel Oliveira (Aprilia) was proper with the Ducati rider early on however obtained shoved apart in a lap-one scrap. He ultimately got here in 19th.
Honda’s Marc Marquez completed the race in his beginning place of 17th, after electing to start out on comfortable tyres each entrance and rear.
