Termas de Río Hondo (Argentina), (EFE) in Termas de Río Hondo, and by barely 72 thousandths of a second over his immediate pursuer.
Binder beat the Italian Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) in a tight finish, whom he beat by those 72 thousandths of a second, and with just over eight tenths of a second over the third place, the Italian Luca Marini (Ducati Desmosedici GP22). ).
Alex Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) had the responsibility of starting for the first time in his racing career from pole position in the Argentine sprint race, scheduled for twelve laps, in which he did not fail despite being hit on the inside The Italian Franco Morbidelli (Yamaha YZR M 1) wanted to sneak in, but he braked too fast and the Spaniard kept first place.
Mir accident
Before the end of the first lap, Morbidelli overtook Alex Márquez while behind the Spaniard Joan Mir (Repsol Honda RC 213 V) tried to recover positions from last place, but crashed and ended up being transferred to the circuit clinic. to assess their physical conditions when they have a lot of discomfort.
Brad Binder (KTM RC 16), who started from fifteenth position, placed third in that initial lap, with a brilliant ascent, and in the second lap he was already second after overtaking Alex Márquez who was also passed by the Italian Luca Marini and that he had the world champion attached to his slipstream, the Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP23), who had to settle for the sixth final position.
Brad Binder comeback
Also from further back, the Spanish Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia RS-GP) made contact with the leading group on the third lap, in which Binder was already the leader of the race and Alex Márquez held off the attacks of “Pecco” Bagnaia.
On the fourth lap, at the head of the race, it was possible to define a group of nine drivers in which were Brad Binder, Franco Morbidelli, Luca Marini, Alex Márquez, Marco Bezzecchi, “Pecco” Bagnaia, Aleix Espargaró, Maverick Viñales and Jorge Martín , with almost a second ahead of the chasing group, led by the Frenchman Fabio Quartararo, who ended up linking up with them.
Ahead, Brad Binder got a few meters ahead of Morbidelli and Marini, his immediate pursuers, who went ahead on several occasions, and Aleix Espargaró who crashed at turn nine when he was in seventh place.
Binder, with more than six tenths of a second ahead, consolidated the first position while Bezzecchi and Marini battled for second place, leaving Morbidelli a little further behind, with Bagnaia in fifth, ahead of Alex Márquez, Maverick Viñales, Fabio Quartararo and Jorge Martin.
heart attack ending
Two laps from the end Marco Bezzecchi set the fastest lap of the race in search of reaching Brad Binder, an objective he achieved in the last lap and, although the transalpine tried it in the final curves, he could not with the South African, who won his first sprint win, ahead of Bezzecchi and Marini.
Franco Morbidelli finished in fourth place, with Alex Márquez fifth after masterfully overtaking “Pecco” Bagnaia on the last lap, who knew how to close the gaps so that the Spanish Maverick Viñales and his Aprilia would not also overtake him.
Jorge Martín entered a little further off the hook, along with Fabio Quartararo, with Australian Jack Miller (KTM RC 16) in tenth position.
Raúl Fernández (Aprilia RS-GP) was fourteenth in a group in which Alex Rins (Honda RC 213 V) and Augusto Fernández (GasGas RC 16) finished behind him.
Juan Antonio Lladós
