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Lap five saw Martin again use
turn 10 for a pass, this time on
Marquez for second, and on the
last corner of the lap, he dove past
Marini to take the lead. Bagnaia was
grimly hanging onto fifth place.
Diggia pushed past Marini on the
penultimate corner on lap nine for
second and gradually closed on Mar
-
tin for the lead but he ran out of laps
as the Spaniard took his eighth Sprint
Race win of the season.
Diggia came home second from
Marini and Alex Marquez, with Bagnaia
trailing home in fifth ahead of Brad
Binder (Red Bull KTM), Fabio Quartara
-
ro (Monster Energy Yamaha), Augusto
Fernandez (GasGas Tech3) and Zarco.
The result saw the title race shrink
further still, with just seven points
separating Martin and Bagnaia head
-
ing into the Sunday GP.
ALEIX ESPARGARO
FINED
Aleix Espargaro was fined
$10,900 and given a six-place
grid penalty for Sunday's race
after losing his temper and hitting
Franco Morbidelli in an innocuous
incident in FP2. The Catalan was
apparently riled to find the Italian
on track before inexplicably hitting
out. Morbidelli didn't hold back in
his comments on Saturday eve-
ning. "He overtook me like crazy
into turn six, almost crashing and
almost making me crash," he
said. "And then, when I was trying
to tell him to take it easy because,
as always, after he banged on
me, he got angry! He did what
you all saw. It's a huge disrespect
action towards me. We've seen
him over-reacting many, many
times in his career. He has much
more episodes to be ashamed
of than episodes to be proud of.
I guess he's what he is. I wonder
what he will say to his kids."
BEZZECCHI EXPLAINS
ESPARGARO SHUNT
Marco Bezzecchi and Pol Es-
pargaro kissed and made up on
Saturday evening after coming
together in a heated exchange on
Friday. The pair rode dangerously
close to one another before the
Italian parked behind the Span-
iard, doing a practice start, before
repeatedly riding into him from
behind. "After the checkered flag,
I was looking at the big screen,
and I passed a bit too close to
him, and after he cut my line.
After, I started smiling because
we were like kids, so in the start,
I touched him," Bezzecchi said.
"I wanted him to turn around and
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