Francesco Bagnaia, winner of Moto GP 2023 at the Portimao circuit

Portuguese miguel olive (Aprilia RS-GP) and Spaniard Jorge Martin (Ducati Desmosedici GP23) they initially fought for the positionA “troubled” Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda RC 213 V) gave up pole many rows and sought any space to save the ground, but eventually finished fourth at the end of the first lap dominated by Oliveira.

Oliveira wanted to act as a “local idol” – which she is – and tried hard to break the group from the start, but both Jorge Martín and Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP23) gave him a “limpet”. and the current world champion took the lead in the second round ahead of Oliveira, Martín and. Marc Márquez, who messed up the next round.

In the third round of the third round, he tried to beat Jorge Martín from the inside but it took a long time and He hit Portuguese Miguel Oliveira, who fell violently to the ground, from behind.Martín managed to get over the situation but lost many positions (sixteenth).

While leaving Márquez and Oliveira out of the race, whose incident immediately brought Race Direction under investigation, “Pecco” Bagnaia took a few yards advantage over another Spaniard, Maverick Viñales. (Aprilia RS-GP), Marc Márquez, Miguel Oliveira and Jorge Martín took advantage of the absence of the Australian Jack Miller (KTM RC 16), a few meters ahead of the group led by Italian Marco. Bezzecchi (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), Spaniard Alex Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) and South African Brad Binder (KTM RC 16).

Since that time test MotoGP It turned into a duel with Bagnaia. If he wins the race, Viñales will be the only rider in world motorcycle history to win a race at three different factories (Suzuki, Yamaha and Aprilia).

After the main duo Alex Marquez Taking advantage of a mistake made by Jack Miller, he passed him in the eighth lap and moved up to fourth place..

In the eleventh lap, Bagnaia and Viñales had a 1.7 second lead over the group consisting of Bezzecchi, Alex Márquez, Jack Miller, Brad Binder, Johann Zarco, Luca Marini and Aleix Espargaró, who had taken part in the fastest lap of his career a few laps ago.

However Gradually, “Pecco” Bagnaia was solidifying his rhythm. Maverick Viñales can’t neutralize him and stop the Italian looking for their second win of the weekend to start the championship as a solid leader.

Finished after Bagnaia, who was comfortable in second position a Maverick Viñales who is consistently solid in that frame Having to deal with all his opponents to protect the third place of the podium, Bezzecchi’s group did not allow him to approach him.

nor from behind Alex Espargaro (Aprilia RS-GP) nor the French Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) who had a technical problem with one of their bikes during their only free practice on the same race morning. drastically improved his prudent results in Portugal to finish the race in ninth and eighth placesrespectively.

Jorge Martín, who was far behind, tried to turn back. After his misadventure with Marc Márquez and Miguel Oliveira, he remained on the ground only at the age of eleven and tried to pass Italian Luca Marini as Quartararo had made a few corners before.

Spanish raul fernandez (Aprilia RS-GP) it was also low When he fell three laps from the end at Turn 5, as did the Italian Luca Marini.

Alex Rins finished 10th in the first race of Italian team Lucio Cecchinello in his Honda RC 213 V. Joan Mir (Repsol Honda RC 213 V) which has to meet Due to the misfortune he had during the training session with the Frenchman Fabio Quartararo, he was given a “long lap” penalty.heavily punished him, with Augusto Fernández (GasGas RC 16) thirteenth.