Sprint Race
KTM’s Brad Binder won his second MotoGP sprint race after triumphing in a wild Saturday contest at a Spanish Grand Prix that was interrupted by a red flag.
Binder locked horns with team-mate Jack Miller for victory in the sprint race, making a decisive move on the penultimate tour before scampering 0.428 seconds clear to the chequered flag.
Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia was second after passing Miller on the last lap to close to three points off the championship lead after VR46 Ducati’s Marco Bezzecchi could only manage ninth in a chaotic afternoon.
The 12-lap sprint was red-flagged on the opening lap after Yamaha’s Franco Morbidelli made contact with Alex Marquez at Turn 2 and tipped both into a crash.
Feature Race
Italy’s defending champion Francesco Bagnaia won the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez to reclaim the lead in the MotoGP riders’ standings after four rounds.
The Ducati rider hit the front with three laps of the 24 remaining and held off KTM’s Brad Binder to deny the South African a sprint-race double.
Binder’s KTM team-mate Jack Miller, of Australia, was third. Bagnaia finished 22 points ahead of pre-race Championship leader Marco Bezzecchi, who crashed out on lap 17.
Binder moved up three places to go third in the standings, while Miller finished the day in fourth.
The two KTM riders led off the start line but the race was red-flagged on the opening lap following a crash involving Yamaha’s 2021 championship winner Fabio Quartararo and RNF Racing’s Miguel Oliveira.
Oliveira, of Portugal, suffered a dislocated shoulder and was unable to continue.
Bagnaia remained behind the two KTM riders after the restart, and stayed there until lap 15, when he eventually passed Miller before reeling in Binder six laps later.
