As soon as once more he nailed his begin from pole place – simply as he did within the dash – in Sunday’s full-length race on the Purple Bull Ring to maintain the fast-launching KTMs behind him into Flip 1.
Regardless of an early risk from Brad Binder, Bagnaia was by no means headed in Austria and stormed to the chequered flag over 5 seconds away from the KTM rider for his fifth grand prix victory of the season.
Bagnaia has now moved 62 factors away from Jorge Martin within the standings following his third dash/grand prix double of the marketing campaign.
Binder was second on KTM’s dwelling turf as Marco Bezzecchi accomplished the rostrum for VR46 Ducati to banish the frustration of his dash DNF on Saturday.
In the beginning, Bagnaia slotted into the lead forward of Binder, whereas the highest two have been damaged up from the chasing pack as Luca Marini on the second VR46 bike suffered an enormous slide exiting Flip 1.
This compromised Jack Miller’s run, although the Australian was nonetheless capable of take third into the Flip 2 chicane on his manufacturing unit KTM.
However Bagnaia and Binder have been already seven-tenths up the highway come the top of the opening tour, with Miller persevering with to cede time as he started getting shuffled down the order.
Brad Binder, Purple Bull KTM Manufacturing facility Racing
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Binder stored the warmth on Bagnaia over the primary few laps, coming very near a transfer up the within of the Ducati rider on the Flip 9 right-hander on the fourth tour.
However he couldn’t get shut sufficient to tug off the transfer, and it might finally show to be the perfect probability for Binder.
Come lap 11, Bagnaia had began to stretch his legs, opening the hole to half a second and climbing that to eight-tenths subsequent time round.
The decisive section of the race got here from lap 17 to 22 when Bagnaia swelled his result in over 4 seconds.
That hole solely climbed as Bagnaia took the chequered flag 5.1s away from Binder.
A late tussle with Gresini’s Alex Marquez ultimately led Bezzecchi – who began seventh – to take third, having run large at Flip 1 throughout overtake makes an attempt on laps 16 and 20.
Bezzecchi lastly made the transfer stick on lap 22 into Flip 9, with VR46 team-mate Marini snatching fourth from Marquez late on.
Alex Marquez, Gresini Racing
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Marquez held onto fifth regardless of a late surge from Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales, who as soon as once more suffered a poor launch in the beginning.
This compelled Vinales to should recuperate from eleventh after the opening turns, with the Spaniard sixth in the long run forward of Pramac Ducati’s Jorge Martin – who secured seventh having served a protracted lap penalty for inflicting the multi-rider dash collision within the dash.
Fabio Quartararo made up one place from his beginning spot to eighth on the manufacturing unit Yamaha forward of the sister manufacturing unit Aprilia of Aleix Espargaro and Ducati’s Enea Bastianini.
Franco Morbidelli was eleventh on the sister manufacturing unit Yamaha forward of Honda’s Marc Marquez, who was the one rider to run the mushy rear tyre in Sunday’s grand prix.
This marked Marquez’s first end in a Sunday grand prix all season.
Johann Zarco struggled to thirteenth on his Pramac Ducati forward of Tech3 rookie Augusto Fernandez and Miller.
A late three-second time penalty for failing to serve a protracted lap penalty for exceeding observe limits too many occasions dropped Pol Espargaro (Tech3) out of the factors to sixteenth.
Gresini’s Fabio Di Giannantonio, LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami, Aprilia wildcard Lorenzo Savadori and LCR stand-in Iker Lecuona accomplished the sphere.
Joan Mir (Honda) crashed out halfway by means of the race, whereas each RNF Aprilias – carrying a Barbie-inspired livery on Sunday – didn’t see the chequered flag.