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MotoGP Austin: Comfortable Moto3 win for Martin

Del Conca Gresini’s Jorge Martin took a comfortable Moto3 win at the Austin MotoGP round, taking the lead with six laps to go and slowly edging away from the scrap behind to cross the with a 1.451s margin over Enea Bastianini with Marco Bezzecchi in third.

There was a six-way battle for the lead with plenty of paint swapped in the opening stages. At the halfway mark, Bezzecchi took top spot from Fabio Di Giannantonio and looked like he might try and make a break but Martin followed him through and didn’t allow it.

Martin bagged top spot a lap later but a stalking Philipp Oettl got a triple slipstream on the back straight but went wide on the brakes and Bezzecchi took advantage to hit the front again, and set the fastest lap of the race thus far.

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With six left to run, Martin made his concerted effort, passed Bezzecchi again and began to pull away, leaving Bastianini, Bezzecchi, Oettl and Di Giannantonio to fight it out for the podium spots.

As the lap counter hit four. Bastiannini passed Di Giannantonio for second and set a fastest lap in the process while the Gresini man made an error into turn 11 and that was all Bastianini needed to pull a gap and make second his own.

Bezzecchi was still in the fight for the final podium spot but lost it to Di Giannantonio at the last corner on the penultimate lap while Oettl was still buzzing around the pair of them. Down the back straight on the final lap, he got a big slipstream and took third but missed his braking point, ran wide and took Di Giannantonio with him.

A last lunge from the Gresini man on Bezecchi not only didn’t succeed but he was so far off track he lost fourth place to Migno, who had slowly but surely edged his way to the back of the trio. Oettl ended up in sixth place.

Jakub Kornfeil claimed seventh place while Aron Canet opted, wrongly, for the soft rear Dunlop and could only muster eighth. Suzuki claimed ninth while Livio Loi came back from 26th to round out the top ten.

Britain’s John McPhee got involved in a first-turn melee and crossed the line in 14th.

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