The reigning double global champion led from begin to end on the Assen circuit to win the Dutch Motorbike Brilliant Prix.
Francesco Bagnaia claimed his 3rd consecutive Dutch MotoGP forward of championship chief Jorge Martin to slim the distance to ten issues in his quest for a 3rd immediately global name.
Bagnaia’s manufacturing facility Ducati teammate, Enea Bastianini, finished the rostrum at Assen on Sunday.
Polesitter Bagnaia led from the begin to trip a flawless race, capping a memorable weekend nearest he additionally claimed victory in Saturday’s dash race.
Then giving a driving masterclass, the rider from Turin stated “It’s unbelievable.
“I had to push from the start and suffering a bit from the rear tyre. But lap-by-lap I improved.”
“We were very fast, very precise… I am very satisfied,” added Bagnaia, who two times needful the Assen monitor document over the weekend.
The weekend’s win in Assen once more additionally highlighted Ducati’s dominance within the producer’s championship standings, handing over the 5th complete Ducati podium in a row.
Bagnaia’s race by no means checked in confusion as each he and Martin opened a large hole over the residue of the garden within the opening laps of the race.
All through the race, Martin stayed inside of 5 seconds of the chief across the 4.5km (2.8-mile) monitor. He made a last push to reel within the Bagnaia, however used to be not able to get similar plethora to problem, sooner or later trailing the Italian over the end layout by way of 3.68 seconds.
“At the end of the race I had nothing left. I tried my absolute best to catch him,” Martin stated.
The true struggle used to be for 3rd park, which changed into a titanic aim between Bastianini, Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales, Marc Marquez on a Gresini Ducati and Fabio Di Giannantonio on a VR46 Ducati.
Then rounds of racing ping-pong, Bastianini handed Vinales with 4 laps to walk and held the 3rd spot to the chequered flag forward of the Spaniard.
The riders now tools up for later day’s German MotoGP at Sachsenring.
Martin now leads the 2024 MotoGP Global Championship standings with 200 issues nearest 8 of 21 rounds. Bagnaia is later absolute best on 190 issues, adopted by way of Marquez on 149.