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his braking point for turn one,
coming within millimeters of
taking himself and Diggia out of
the race. The number one ran off
track but kept it upright, rejoin-
ing in second ahead of Marini,
and handing five points back to
Martin in the title race.
Nothing could stop Di Giannan-
tonio, however. The 25-year-old
Italian held it together to take an
enormously popular win.
Bagnaia was second from Mari-
ni, Vinales, Binder, Alex Marquez,
Quartararo, Bastianini, Miller and
Martin, who was livid after seeing
a dud rear tire possibly deliver a
fatal blow to his title hopes.
must be said) chose "mapping 8"
to signal five laps to go to their
rider, meaning now was the time
to go for the lead over Bagnaia.
His move came on lap 19 at turn
12, forcing through on Bagnaia
and holding it to the front straight.
Then, it was very nearly di
-
saster as Bagnaia, desperate to
retake the lead, got sucked into
Diggia's slipstream and missed
Strangely, "mapping 8" was
shown on Diggia's dashboard,
the cryptic message made fa
-
mous by Ducati giving it to Jorge
Lorenzo during the 2017 season
that meant to allow then team
-
mate Andrea Dovizioso a better
position in his title fight against
Marc Marquez.
It would later transpire that
the Gresini team (rather oddly, it
say hello, but at the end, he was
maybe very angry. Fortunately,
nothing crazy. Was more danger-
ous what happened today with his
brother [Aleix]."
MARQUEZ
DEFENDS TACTICS
For the second weekend in suc-
cession, Marc Marquez was left
to defend his qualifying tactics
when he clung to the rear tire
of Pecco Bagnaia, much to the
chagrin of Ducati team boss
Davide Tardozzi. "I will answer
easy and honest: Alone was one
second slower," Marquez said.
"This bike with the slipstream is
another bike. And it's like this. I
understand that people say, 'Oh,
why he's following all the time?'
I mean, in the past, many riders
followed me. If you are just focus-
ing on yourself, they didn't disturb
me. I mean if you check where is
the second Honda, you will under-
stand if it's over the limit or not."
Briefly...
MotoGP Sprint Race
Maverick Vinales
upheld Aprilia
honors with fourth
on Sunday.
