- 2023-06-19
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MotoGP German GP: Jorge Martin Holds Off Francesco Bagnaia To Win in Germany
Liqui Moly Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland watched the Sprint Race winner Jorge Martin (Ducati Lenovo) snatched victory from Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo) by 0.064 seconds.
This marks his second victory in the premier class since the 2021 Styrian GP. Also, he took podium a third race in a row, following French GP and Italian GP.
Francesco Bagnaia competed against Jorge Martin until the final lap. But, Francesco Bagnaia did make contact with the rear of Jorge Martin's bike at the final corner with 2 laps to go, then he went to the last lap with a little bit slow down. He continued to push Jorge Martin in the last lap, but finished 2nd by a close margin.
Jorge Martin's team-mate Johann Zarco (Pramac Ducati) was 3rd after Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM), who was running in 3rd, crashed out on lap 19 at the fast Turn 8.
Marco Bezzecchi (Mooney VR46 Ducati) and Luca Marini (Mooney VR46 Ducati) finishe 4th and 5th, respectively.
Jack Miller (Red Bull KTM) led the beginning the race, but finally was 6th. He and Miguel Oliveira (RNF Aprilia) in 10th were the only non-Docati riders in the top 10.
Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati) in 7th, Enea Bastianini (Ducati Lenovo) in 8th, and Fabio Di Giannantonio (Gresini Ducati) in 9fh finished the race.
Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda) withdrew from the race following his fifth crash of the weekend in Warm Up.
Jorge Martin said, “It was fantastic, it was so emotional to win today because I struggled quite a lot last season to be competitive. It was really frustrating. I came back this season and have been strong almost everywhere, and being on the podium many times but I was missing that Sunday victory. Today was a tough race, Pecco improved a lot today. He did an amazing step from yesterday, I saw this already in the warm-up. I was looking at the data; it was the same rider, he improved that sector two quite a lot. I tried to do the same as yesterday, try to make a small gap but saw I was taking too much out of the rear tyre. It's better that he caught me and see what happened at the end. When he overtook me, I changed the strategy a little bit. I tried to fight straight back. It wasn't easy, he was pushing a lot, it wasn't easy to keep the concentration.”
Liqui Moly Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland Race Results- Jorge Martin / Pramac Ducati / 40m 52.449s
- Francesco Bagnaia / Ducati Lenovo / +0.064s
- Johann Zarco / Pramac Ducati / +7.013s
- Marco Bezzecchi / Mooney VR46 Ducati / +8.430s
- Luca Marini / Mooney VR46 Ducati / +11.679s
- Jack Miller / Red Bull KTM / +11.904s
- Alex Marquez / Gresini Ducati / +14.040s
- Enea Bastianini / Ducati Lenovo / +14.859s
- Fabio Di Giannantonio / Gresini Ducati / +17.061s
- Miguel Oliveira / RNF Aprilia / +19.648s
- Augusto Fernandez / Tech3 GASGAS / +19.997s
- Franco Morbidelli / Monster Yamaha / +22.949s
- Fabio Quartararo / Monster Yamaha / +25.117s
- Takaaki Nakagami / LCR Honda / +25.327s
- Raul Fernandez / RNF Aprilia / +25.503s
- Aleix Espargaro / Aprilia Racing / +28.543s
- Jonas Folger / Tech3 GASGAS / +48.962s
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