MotoGP celebrated its one thousandth grand prix occasion with a chaotic 27-lap race on Sunday at Le Mans, the place solely 13 riders completed because the likes of Bagnaia, Maverick Vinales and Marc Marquez all crashed out.
Bezzecchi hit the entrance on lap 11 after overtaking Jack Miller, and proceeded to dominate by 4.256 seconds to the chequered flag.
A late crash for Marquez whereas preventing with Pramac’s Jorge Martin dropped him out, with Martin heading team-mate and residential hero Johann Zarco.
Standings chief Bagnaia’s race ended on lap 5 in a collision with Vinales as they debated third place, with Bezzecchi now only one level off the championship lead.
Marquez grabbed the holeshot from second on the grid from KTM’s Miller and VR46’s Luca Marini, with Bagnaia dropping again to fifth behind Martin.
Miller acquired forward of Marquez into Flip 8 on lap two to take the lead, although the Honda rider would snatch the place again on the exit.
On lap three, Miller made the transfer stick on the run into the Dunlop chicane, whereas Bagnaia moved forward of Marini to take third simply behind.
Marquez saved Miller in shut consideration, as Vinales on the manufacturing facility Aprilia discovered his method as much as fourth on Marini on lap 5 on the Dunlop chicane.
This put Vinales into putting distance of Bagnaia, with the Aprilia rider launching an assault into Flip 11. The Spaniard ran large and because the Italian reduce to his inside to take Flip 12, the pair collided. This led to Vinales dropping management and slamming into Bagnaia, which took each riders out of the race.
Moments later on the Dunlop chicane in the beginning of lap six, Marini misplaced the entrance of his Ducati on the exit of the nook battling Bezzecchi, with Alex Marquez on the Gresini Ducati getting caught unsighted and crashing into him. Marini was taken to the medical centre for checks as Marquez walked away unscathed.
On lap eight, Bezzecchi compelled Marc Marquez off observe at Flip 8 as they battled for second, which allowed Martin – who ran large on the opening lap and dropped to eighth – to maneuver into third.
Bezzecchi was compelled to drop one place for this, ceding second to Martin on lap 9 into Flip 11, earlier than retaking the place on the following tour.
Bezzecchi then handed Miller for the lead on lap 11 and immediately put six tenths between himself and the remaining as Marquez moved as much as second on the identical tour, having dispatched Martin on lap 10.
Martin demoted Miller for third on lap 13 and set about chasing Marquez as Bezzecchi’s lead swelled above a second.
Bezzecchi was 3.1s clear come the tip of lap 21, with Martin partaking with Marquez over second on lap 22.
Marquez repelled these assaults, however on the penultimate tour the Honda rider had a wobble braking for Flip 7 and crashed out.
This gifted Martin second, whereas it promoted Zarco to 3rd for his third profession residence podium in MotoGP as Bezzecchi cruised to his second grand prix victory of the 12 months.
Tech3 GASGAS rookie Augusto Fernandez transformed his finest beginning place of twelfth to complete a career-best fourth, with Aleix Espargaro fifth on the sole-remaining manufacturing facility Aprilia.
Brad Binder was sixth having needed to serve an extended lap penalty for reducing the observe at Flip 9/10, the South African the one manufacturing facility KTM rider to take the chequered flag as Miller crashed on lap 25 having slumped to sixth.
Fabio Quartararo concluded his wretched weekend seventh for Yamaha forward of Gresini’s Fabio Di Giannantonio, LCR Honda’s Takaaki Nakagami and Yamaha’s Franco Morbidelli.
Danilo Petrucci was eleventh on his one-off MotoGP return for Ducati changing the injured Enea Bastianini, with fellow stand-ins Lorenzo Savadori (RNF) and Jonas Folger (Tech3) the final finishers right down to thirteenth.
Honda duo Joan Mir and Alex Rins (LCR) crashed out of the race in separate incidents.
