MotoGP news: Bagnaia wins German MotoGP after Martin crash

Francesco Bagnaia won the MotoGP German Grand Prix. Image: Supplied

The Pramac Racing rider was leading on the penultimate of 30 laps around the Sachsenring when he went down at Turn 1.

Bagnaia inherited first position and now heads the championship by 10 points over his Ducati stablemate as MotoGP summer break begins.

Marc Marquez charged from 13th to second with Alex Marquez making it both Gresini Ducatis on the podium.

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Jack Miller finished 13th on his Red Bull KTM and Remy Gardner was classified 19th as he stood in for the injured Alex Rins at Monster Energy Yamaha.

Martin had qualified on pole position and kept Miguel Oliveira (Trackhouse Aprilia) at bay in the opening corners, before the latter was passed for second by Bagnaia at Turn 13 after he had launched well from the second row.

A lap later, Bagnaia hit the front with a carbon copy of that move, but on Martin.

Franco Morbidelli had moved up to third place and then started applying pressure to his Pramac team-mate as that top three gapped the field.

Martin survived and then went back past Bagnaia at Turn 1 on 7, before Morbidelli did likewise to relegate the #1 Ducati Team entry to third on Lap 9.

Bagnaia was back into second place at the halfway mark when he found a way past at Turn 13, by which time #89 was more than a second to the good.

Meanwhile, Alex Marquez and Marc Marquez were on the climb in the next group, the former overtaking Morbidelli on Lap 17.

When Morbidelli ran wide at Turn 1 on Lap 22, Marc Marquez went for the gap but the Italian cut back and they banged together, causing #93 to come under huge pressure from Enea Bastianini.

The six-time champ ultimately shook off the man whom he is replacing at the Ducati Team next year, then lunged past Morbidelli at Turn 13 on Lap 25.

At the very front, Martin’s gap had dwindled to half a second when he slid out and into the gravel trap with two laps to go, before Marc Marquez went under his brother at Turn 12 for what had become second place.

Bagnaia won by 3.804s with Marc Marquez second, from Alex Marquez, Bastianini, Morbidelli, Oliveira, Pedro Acosta (GasGas Tech3), Marco Bezzecchi (VR46 Ducati), Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM), Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse Aprilia) in 10th, Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha), Maverick Viñales (Aprilia Racing), and Miller.

Augusto Fernandez (GasGas Tech3) had taken the chequered flag in 14th but a penalty for a tyre pressure breach meant his spot was inherited by Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda), and Luca Marini (Repsol Honda) scored his first championship point of the season by being officially classified 15th.

Gardner likewise moved up one spot from 20th, ahead of Stefan Bradl (HRC Honda).

Round 10 is the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on August 2-4.

Race results: Grand Prix race

Pos	Num	Rider	Nat	Team	Bike	Time/Gap
1	1	F. Bagnaia	ITA	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	40:40.063
2	93	M. Marquez	ESP	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	+3.804
3	73	A. Marquez	ESP	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	+4.334
4	23	E. Bastianini	ITA	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	+5.317
5	21	F. Morbidelli	ITA	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	+5.557
6	88	M. Oliveira	POR	Trackhouse Racing	Aprilia	+10.481
7	31	P. Acosta	ESP	Red Bull GASGAS Tech3	GasGas	+14.746
8	72	M. Bezzecchi	ITA	Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	+14.930
9	33	B. Binder	RSA	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	+15.084
10	25	R. Fernandez	ESP	Trackhouse Racing	Aprilia	+16.384
11	20	F. Quartararo	FRA	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team	Yamaha	+17.235
12	12	M. Viñales	ESP	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	+18.865
13	43	J. Miller	AUS	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	+25.425
14	30	T. Nakagami	JPN	IDEMITSU Honda LCR	Honda	+25.817
15	10	L. Marini	ITA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	+25.854
16	37	A. Fernandez	ESP	Red Bull GASGAS Tech3	GasGas	+41.495
17	5	J. Zarco	FRA	CASTROL Honda LCR	Honda	+41.952
18	36	J. Mir	ESP	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	+43.145
19	87	R. Gardner	AUS	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team	Yamaha	+50.115
20	6	S. Bradl	GER	HRC Test Team	Honda	+59.047
DNF	89	J. Martin	ESP	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	28 laps
DNF	49	F. Di Giannantonio	ITA	Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	9 laps

Race winner: 30 laps

Riders’ championship

Pos	Rider	Nat	Pts
1	F. Bagnaia	ITA	222
2	J. Martin	ESP	212
3	M. Marquez	ESP	166
4	E. Bastianini	ITA	155
5	M. Viñales	ESP	125
6	P. Acosta	ESP	110
7	B. Binder	RSA	108
8	F. Di Giannantonio	ITA	92
9	A. Espargaro	ESP	82
10	A. Marquez	ESP	79
11	F. Morbidelli	ITA	55
12	M. Bezzecchi	ITA	53
13	M. Oliveira	POR	51
14	R. Fernandez	ESP	46
15	F. Quartararo	FRA	44
16	J. Miller	AUS	35
17	A. Fernandez	ESP	15
18	J. Mir	ESP	13
19	J. Zarco	FRA	12
20	T. Nakagami	JPN	10
21	A. Rins	ESP	8
22	D. Pedrosa	ESP	7
23	L. Marini	ITA	1
24	S. Bradl	GER	0
25	P. Espargaro	ESP	0
26	R. Gardner	AUS	0
27	L. Savadori	ITA	0