MotoGP: Enea Basitianini has taken out the British Grand Prix ahead Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia.
Basitianini claims British Grand Prix | 01:06Italian Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia raced clear to win an “incredible” Austria n MotoGP sprint on Saturday and overtake Jorge Martin at the top of the championship standings .
The reigning two-time MotoGP champion Bagnaia started the grid in second place and completed the 14 laps in 20 minutes 59.768 seconds, 4.673sec faster than Martin. “Incredible, but the most incredible thing we did is the best lap time during the battle, a 1:28.7, that’s two-tenths lower than the pole position time last year,” said 27-year-old Bagnaia of his third sprint win of the season.Pole-sitter Martin was hit with a penalty early in the sprint after he was unable to get his bike turned in time at turn two of the second lap and was forced through the short-cut.
Enea Bastianini, fresh off a sprint-GP double at the British MotoGP, finished fourth on his Ducati and KTM’s Australian rider Jack Miller raced through in fifth place.
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