Bastianini has loved his greatest weekend of the season on the Sepang Worldwide Circuit, having made a breakthrough with the set-up of his Ducati to enhance his nook entry efficiency.
In a yr through which he missed 9 grands prix by means of quite a few harm woes, Bastianini’s manufacturing unit Ducati seat has come under threat, as rumours mount that Jorge Martin might be promoted from Pramac.
Main from Flip 1 from third on the grid, Bastianini stormed away from Gresini’s Alex Marquez to attain his fifth grand prix victory and first as a manufacturing unit Ducati rider by 1.535 seconds.
Marquez held onto second to add to his sprint win from Saturday, whereas Bagnaia noticed off an early problem from title rival Jorge Martin to finish the rostrum.
This has opened Bagnaia’s championship lead as much as 14 factors shifting to subsequent weekend’s Qatar GP, with Martin fourth within the race at Sepang.
Pramac’s Martin seemed to get the higher preliminary launch off the road firstly of the 20-lap grand prix, however ran broad on the run into Flip 1.
This allowed Bastianini to return by means of on the within to take the lead, as Marquez on the Gresini Ducati jumped as much as second forward of Bagnaia.
Martin dropped to fifth behind VR46 Ducati’s Marco Bezzecchi within the opening corners, however rapidly moved again forward at Flip 14 with a good transfer.
The highest two already had a 0.5s lead over Bagnaia come the top of lap one, whereas two laps later Martin launched a raid on third.
Martin tried to go up the within of Bagnaia on the Flip 14 right-hander, however ran barely broad and allowed his manufacturing unit Ducati counterpart to scythe again previous.
At Flip 4 on lap 4, Martin tried once more however ran broad as soon as extra, letting Bagnaia lean on him into Flip 5 and maintain onto third.
After this battling, the highest two have been already 1.5s away from Bagnaia, who was beginning to drop Martin.
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Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Group
A battle for the lead by no means materialised, with Bastianini steadily extending his hole over Marquez and went unchallenged to the chequered flag.
Bagnaia streaked 6.9s away from Martin, whereas Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo was a preventing fifth after passing Bezzecchi late on.
Sixth for Bezzecchi has formally dominated him out of the championship battle.
Franco Morbidelli was seventh on the sister manufacturing unit Yamaha forward of KTM’s Jack Miller, Gresini’s Fabio Di Giannantonio and VR46’s Luca Marini.
Maverick Vinales was the one Aprilia to see the chequered flag in eleventh, as crashes for team-mate Aleix Espargaro, RNF’s Miguel Oliveira and a technical concern for RNF’s Raul Fernandez dominated them out.
Johann Zarco was a distant twelfth on his Pramac Ducati forward of Honda’s Marc Marquez, who recovered from twentieth on the grid, whereas Tech3 GasGas duo Augusto Fernandez and Pol Espargaro accomplished the highest 15.
Alvaro Bautista was seventeenth in his grand prix wildcard with Ducati, whereas crashes for KTM’s Brad Binder and Honda’s Joan Mir ended their races early.