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MOTOGP FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 6 / MAY 31-JUNE 2, 2019 AUTODROMO DEL MUGELLO / TUSCANY, ITALY P86 completed the top 10. Arbolino was the 11th different Moto3 winner in 11 races, and the title chase remains as close: Canet (83) still leading ahead of Dalla Porta (80), then Antonelli (70), Masia (65) and Vietti (42). CN MotoGP 1. Danilo Petrucci (Duc) 2. Marc Marquez (Hon) 3. Andrea Dovizioso (Duc) 4. Alex Rins (Suz) 5. Takaaki Nakagami (Hon) Moto2 1. Alex Marquez (Kal) 2. Luca Marini (Kal) 3. Thomas Luthi (Kal) 4. Lorenzo Baldassarri (Kal) 5. Augusto Fernandez (Kal) Moto3 1. Tony Arbolino (Hon) 2. Lorenzo Dalla Porta (Hon) 3. Jaume Masia (KTM) 4. Niccolo Antonelli (Hon) 5. Dennis Fogia (KTM) It was the climax to a great race, with a lead group still 14 strong at half distance. Only then did a couple of crashes split it up, leaving eight fighting for the win. Gabriel Rodrigo (Kommerling Honda) led into the first corner, but by the end of the lap Dalla Porta had taken over from a crazy brawl— Le Mans winner John McPhee (Petronas Honda) near the front of it, from 17th on the grid. Dalla Porta would lead over the line for almost every other lap, although positions were frequently changing through the swoops and straights, and they were running into corners four or five abreast. Spaniard Jaume Masia (Bester Capital KTM) battle came through for third. Niccolo Antonelli (SIC58 Honda) was fourth, Dennis Fog- gia (SKY VR46 KTM) was fifth, then John McPhee, Aron Canet (Sterilgarda KTM), Tatsuki Suzuki (SIC58 Honda), Celestino Vietti (SKY VR46 KTM) and Darryn Binder (CIP Green Power KTM) That meant when Luca Marini (SKY VR46 Kalex) closed at half distance, Rossi's half-brother was able to slip cleanly past at the Casanova-Savelli corner set for his first podium of a year that had started with puzzlingly poor results. Baldassari retained a shrink- ing points lead over Marquez, 88 points to 86. Luthi (84) is a close third, then Navarro (73) and Schrotter (64). Moto3 Italian teenager Tony Arbolino played the slipstreaming ghost to claim a first GP win in the first race of the day at Mugello. He snitched what would have been compatriot Lorenzo Dalla Porta's first of the year by inches after the latter had dominated—even fighting back into the lead from sixth to first in one corner after an early error. Arbolino timed it perfectly, to duck out of the draft, and lead him over the line by just 0.029 of a second. Yes, there was a winner in there, and it was Tony Arbolino (14)—just barely.