and Oliveira settled for second.
Pecco Bagnaia (SKY VR46
Kalex) had taken fourth off the
slowly fading Binder on lap eight,
then inherited third when Mar-
quez crashed at a slow corner,
unfortunately knocking off a
footpeg so he couldn't restart.
Bagnaia was too far behind
to improve on that, and over
the final laps had his hands full
fending off Argentine GP
runner-up Xavi Vierge (Dy-
navolt Kalex). Mattia Pasini
(Italtrans Kalex) was never
close enough to make a
difference, but successfully
dropped Binder.
Earlier, the Italian veteran
had clashed with class rook-
ie Romano Fenati, knocking
the Marinelli Kalex rider into
a crash, leaving him shaking
his fist angrily.
Austin injury victim
Marcel Schrotter (Dyna-
volt Kalex) was a fighting
seventh.
Bagnaia retained the title lead,
73 to Baldassarri with 64, then
Oliveira (63), Pasini (58) and
Marquez (47).
Moto3
Philipp Oettl joined the ranks of
father-and-son GP winners with a
narrow 0.059-second victory in a
topsy-turvy Moto3 race in which
four of the lead pack crashed
out with four of the 22 laps to go,
and KTM inherited a first podium
lock-out in years.
Nobody could say that the
German didn't deserve the win.
He had led across the line sev-
eral times, and was always well
placed in a pack that had only
dropped from 18 riders to six in
the closing stages.
"On Thursday it was my [22nd]
birthday. This was the best pres-
ent for me," said Oettl, veteran of
91 GP starts.
The Schedl KTM rider had to
hold off a pushing Argentine GP
winner Marco Bezzecchi (Redox
KTM). Just two were left up front
after a kamikaze move by Aron
Canet (EG Honda) knocked out
fellow Honda riders Jorge Martin,
Enea Bastianini and Tony Arbo-
lino, all of whom had led several
laps.
It was a massive indiscretion,
but perhaps also an accident
waiting to happen. The pack was
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Andrea Dovizioso (04)
very nearly smashed into
the back of Jorge Lorenzo
(99) at the Jorge Lorenzo
Corner midrace.
Franco Morbidelli (21)
rode through to his first-
ever MotoGP top 10.
