MotoGP Italian GP: Bagnaia leads factory Ducati 1-2

Bagnaia - who was demoted from second to fifth due to a grid penalty - claimed the lead at Turn 2 on the opening lap and never looked back, taking the chequered flag by 0.8s over team-mate Bastianini, as championship leader Jorge Martin had to settle for third.

At the start of the race, Bagnaia made a brilliant launch from fifth on the grid, taking the outside line into Turn 1 to shoot up to second position, before sending his factory Ducati up the inside of Martin to snatch the lead.

Once in front, Bagnaia set a series of fastest laps to break away from Martin, although the Pramac rider was able to cut his deficit back to 0.6s at the halfway stage of the race.

There was a bit of late pressure for Bagnaia with three laps to go as Martin closed his lead to under three tenths, threatening to deny him a victory on his home turf.

But Bagnaia was able to respond to Martin’s pace on the next tour to pull himself clear and complete a double win at Mugello, having also won Saturday’s sprint race with a similarly brilliant start.

Martin looked set to finish behind his chief championship rival, but Bastianini rallied late on to snatch second position from the Spaniard at the final corner and complete a surprise 1-2 finish for the factory Ducati team.

Marc Marquez spent the majority of the race circulating behind the second factory Ducati of Enea Bastianini, even making a mistake at Turn 1 on lap three and bringing Tech3 GasGas’s Pedro Acosta into play.

After resisting the advances of Acosta, who himself ran wide at the final corner a few laps later, Marquez again started piling pressure on Bastianini, but struggled to find a way through on the Italian.

It was only with six laps remaining in the race that Marquez finally got through on Bastianini with a typical block pass into the opening right-hander.

However, Bastianini never allowed Marquez to run away with third position and on the penultimate lap he nudged the Gresini rider aside to claim third. He would then pick off Martin to equal his best finish of the season.

Jorge Martin, Pramac Racing (Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images)

Acosta was once again the top rider from the KTM contingent in fifth, as Pramac’s Franco Morbidelli celebrated the best result of the season in sixth ahead of VR46 rider Fabio Di Giannantonio.

Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales couldn’t convert his front row start into a top position, dropping behind Di Giannantonio in the latter stages to end up eighth at the finish.

The top 10 was completed by Gresini's Alex Marquez and factory KTM rider Brad Binder.

Aleix Espargaro was 11th on an underwhelming weekend for Aprilia, with Trackhouse duo Raul Fernandez and Miguel Oliveira ending up 12th and 14th respectively.

Separating the two two Trackhouse riders was VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi, as Alex Rins took home the final championship point in 15th for Yamaha.

The Japanese marque was unable to convert its impressive practice pace into a strong finish, with team-mate Fabio Quartararo only 18th behind KTM race rider Jack Miller and wildcard entrant Pol Espargaro.

LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami, Honda rider Joan Mir and Tech3 sophomore Augusto Fernandez were the only riders to retire from the race, the latter furiously gesticulating at his pit crew after pulling into the pits on lap three.

MotoGP Italian GP result

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Cla	Rider	#		Bike	Laps	Time	Interval	km/h	Retirement	Points
1	F. Bagnaia Ducati Team	1		Ducati	23	-				25
2	E. Bastianini Ducati Team	23		Ducati	23	+0.799 0.799	0.799			20
3	J. Martin Pramac Racing	89		Ducati	23	+0.924 0.924	0.125			16
4	M. Marquez Gresini Racing	93		Ducati	23	+2.064 2.064	1.140			13
5	P. Acosta Tech 3	31		KTM	23	+7.501 7.501	5.437			11
6	F. Morbidelli Pramac Racing	21		Ducati	23	+9.890 9.890	2.389			10
7	F. Di Giannantonio Team VR46	49		Ducati	23	+10.076 10.076	0.186			9
8	M. Viñales Aprilia Racing Team	12		Aprilia	23	+11.683 11.683	1.607			8
9	A. Marquez Gresini Racing	73		Ducati	23	+13.535 13.535	1.852			7
10	B. Binder Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	33		KTM	23	+15.901 15.901	2.366			6
11	A. Espargaro Aprilia Racing Team	41		Aprilia	23	+19.182 19.182	3.281			5
12	R. Fernández Trackhouse Racing Team	25		Aprilia	23	+20.307 20.307	1.125			4
13	M. Bezzecchi Team VR46	72		Ducati	23	+20.346 20.346	0.039			3
14	M. Oliveira Trackhouse Racing Team	88		Aprilia	23	+23.292 23.292	2.946			2
15	A. Rins Yamaha Factory Racing	42		Yamaha	23	+23.613 23.613	0.321			1
16	J. Miller Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	43		KTM	23	+28.417 28.417	4.804
17	P. Espargaro Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	44		KTM	23	+28.778 28.778	0.361
18	F. Quartararo Yamaha Factory Racing	20		Yamaha	23	+30.622 30.622	1.844
19	J. Zarco Team LCR	5		Honda	23	+31.457 31.457	0.835
20	L. Marini Repsol Honda Team	10		Honda	23	+32.310 32.310	0.853
21	L. Savadori Aprilia Racing Team	32		Aprilia	23	+46.724 46.724	14.414
dnf	T. Nakagami Team LCR	30		Honda	9	14 laps			Retirement
dnf	J. Mir Repsol Honda Team	36		Honda	6	17 laps			Retirement
dnf	A. Fernandez Tech 3	37		KTM	4	19 laps			Retirement
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