Jabar Ekspres – Spanish rider from the Prima Pramac Racing team Jorge Martin won the seventh MotoGP 2023 series played at the German Sachsenring Circuit, Sunday WIB, after a tight duel with the Italian rider from the Ducati Lenovo Team Francesco Bagnaia team, as reported by the official MotoGP website.
Jorge Martin started in sixth position, behind Bagnaia, Luca Marini, Jack Miller, Johann Zarco, and Marco Bezzecchi.
The race started, the top three positions were occupied by Jack Miller, Francesco Bagnaia and Luca Marini.
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A moment later, the top three positions changed with Francesco Bagnaia in first position, Jorge Martin in second, and Luca Marini in third.
By the fourth lap, Jorge Martin was leading the race, followed by Francesco Bagnaia and Luca Marini.
For the remaining 20 laps, Jorge Martin continued to lead the race. The rider who has number 89 recorded a gap of 0.613 from the number two rider Francesco Bagnaia.
The race left 10 laps, Francesco Bagnaia was getting closer to Jorge Martin and the peak a moment later the Italian racer took over the leading position.
Not wanting to be second, Jorge Martin overtook Bagnaia on lap seven. From here, an exciting race was shown by the two riders.
Bagnaia was repeatedly seen trying to catch up. But, Martin displayed a slick performance so that the number 1 rider failed to overtake him.
The race was over and Martin won the Sachsenring MotoGP. Bagnaia was second and Johan Zarco was third.
This victory was Martin’s first victory during the seven MotoGP 2023 series as well as being the third podium in the previous two series, namely at the Le Mans Circuit, France and the Mugello Circuit, Italy in second place.
“After two years, it finally came,” said Martin.
Get 25 points made Martin closer to Bagnaia’s position at the top of the 2023 MotoGP standings with 144 points or a difference of 16 points.
