Bagnaia took a 1.74s victory over championship leader Jorge Martin, who had qualified seventh, after 24 laps.

Marc Marquez beat Sprint winner Aleix Espargaro to the final podium place by 0.05s despite qualifying 14th.

At the race start, it was Bagnaia (Ducati Team) who launched from the line best and took the holeshot from the middle of the front row, with Pedro Acosta (GasGas Tech3) also making up ground to second.

The field stayed relatively close for the first couple of laps before Jack Miller (Red Bull KTM) crash out of seventh place on only the third lap.

Further in front, the race was still led by Bagnaia, who was trying his best to break away and over the next couple of laps was largely successful with only Acosta able to stick with the world champion.

Five laps in and the lead was finally in the hands of a Spanish rider when Martin (Pramac Ducati) overtook the Italian. A lap later, Acosta also worked his way past Bagnaia.

Determined to catch Martin in front of him and with finally with a bit of free air in front of him to cool down his front tyre, Acosta set the fastest lap of the race of Lap 7 with a 1:39.664s.

Having reduced the deficit to Martin far enough to consider overtaking moves, the next step was to continue the charge into leading the race.

Sitting right behind Martin for three laps trying to make his move overstressed his soft rear tyre too far and he crashed out on Lap 11 at Turn 10.

He was able to rejoin the race but had lost enough time that his chance at a win had gone and he was now in 21st place.

Bagnaia was promoted to second, Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing) third, and Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse Aprilia) up to fourth. Marquez was two places further behind with Franco Morbidelli (Pramac Ducati) and Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM) between him and the lead riders.

One lap later and Marquez had passed both Morbidelli and Binder. With half the race still to run, he had a 0.9s deficit to Fernandez to overcome as his next target.

Out the front, Martin had built his advantage up to a slightly more comfortable 1.3s over Bagnaia, who in turn had 3.5s to Espargaro.

Both Martin and Fernandez were able to use their buffer to hold their positions for the next several laps but the inevitable happened and Marquez overtook Fernandez on Lap 18 before Bagnaia did the same to Martin on Lap 19.

With Marquez among the few to gamble on a soft rear Michelin tyre, it would be a question of how much grip he had left.

Martin, on the other hand, knew the answer about his own tyres and had no answer for Bagnaia.

While he tried to rein back the Italian, it quickly became about risk versus reward for Martin, allowing Bagnaia to build to a lead of over a second in selecting the reward of second place of risking the lot.

Marquez, however, chose the other option and selected the risk of chasing the final podium place occupied by Espargaro over the safer option of finishing fourth.

With three laps remaining, Marquez was into the podium places but had no remaining grip in his rear tyre.

That would keep Espargaro in the chase right to the finish line with Marquez admitting post-race that he “overtook Aleix and I push but the tyre was finished.”

After the crash from the lead in the Sprint, all eyes were on Bagnaia, but he held strong to reach the chequered flag at a circuit where he had never collected a single podium in 10 previous attempts in his world championship career.

Third place came down to the drive out of the final corner with Marquez winning this battle by a mere 0.05s, making for the first time he has collected three consecutive podiums since his last world title in 2019.

There was more drama deeper in the field with the remounted Acosta having a tremendous recovery to cross the finish line in 14th.

It was to get even better for the rookie with Enea Bastianini (Ducati Team) handed a Long Lap Penalty by Race Direction for a shortcut at Turn 2. Despite multiple laps to serve this penalty, Bastianini ignored it and, after receiving a double Long Lap Penalty and not serving that either, was finally punished with a Ride Through Penalty which was applied post-race as a 32 second addition to his race time.

That changed Bastianini’s time from a ninth place to 18th and no points, rewarding Acosta with 13th place in the official results.

Bagnaia’s win moves him up to second place in the standings and five points closer to championship leader Martin. Third place for Marquez is enough to hold onto third overall with only a week before a visit to Bagnaia’s home turf at the Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello.

Race results: Grand Prix race

Pos	Num	Rider	Nat	Team	Bike	Time/Gap
1	1	F. Bagnaia	ITA	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	40:11.726
2	89	J. Martin	ESP	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	+1.740
3	93	M. Marquez	ESP	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	+10.491
4	41	A. Espargaro	ESP	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	+10.543
5	49	F. Di Giannantonio	ITA	Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	+15.441
6	25	R. Fernandez	ESP	Trackhouse Racing	Aprilia	+15.916
7	73	A. Marquez	ESP	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	+16.882
8	33	B. Binder	RSA	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	+18.578
9	20	F. Quartararo	FRA	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team	Yamaha	+20.477
10	88	M. Oliveira	POR	Trackhouse Racing	Aprilia	+20.889
11	72	M. Bezzecchi	ITA	Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	+21.023
12	12	M. Viñales	ESP	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	+22.137
13	31	P. Acosta	ESP	Red Bull GASGAS Tech3	GasGas	+31.967
14	30	T. Nakagami	JPN	IDEMITSU Honda LCR	Honda	+32.987
15	36	J. Mir	ESP	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	+33.132
16	5	J. Zarco	FRA	CASTROL Honda LCR	Honda	+34.554
17	10	L. Marini	ITA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	+36.689
18	23	E. Bastianini	ITA	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	+50.615
19	6	S. Bradl	GER	HRC Test Team	Honda	+55.295
20	42	A. Rins	ESP	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team	Yamaha	+63.428
DNF	21	F. Morbidelli	ITA	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	17 laps
DNF	37	A. Fernandez	ESP	Red Bull GASGAS Tech3	GasGas	5 laps
DNF	43	J. Miller	AUS	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	2 laps

Race winner: 24 laps

Riders’ championship

Pos	Rider	Nat	Pts
1	J. Martin	ESP	155
2	F. Bagnaia	ITA	116
3	M. Marquez	ESP	114
4	E. Bastianini	ITA	94
5	M. Viñales	ESP	87
6	P. Acosta	ESP	83
7	A. Espargaro	ESP	76
8	B. Binder	RSA	75
9	F. Di Giannantonio	ITA	62
10	M. Bezzecchi	ITA	42
11	A. Marquez	ESP	42
12	F. Quartararo	FRA	32
13	M. Oliveira	POR	29
14	R. Fernandez	ESP	28
15	J. Miller	AUS	27
16	F. Morbidelli	ITA	15
17	A. Fernandez	ESP	13
18	J. Mir	ESP	13
19	J. Zarco	FRA	9
20	T. Nakagami	JPN	8
21	A. Rins	ESP	7
22	D. Pedrosa	ESP	7
23	L. Marini	ITA	0
24	S. Bradl	GER	0
25	L. Savadori	ITA	0