Marc Marquez victorious in one of the craziest sprint races in history

There was a threat of rain over Jerez for the Tissot Sprint after a rain affected qualifying. Marc Marquez started from pole ahead of Johann Zarco and Fabio Di Giannantonio. Championship leader Marco Bezzecchi was fourth with Pedro Acosta and Alex Marquez alongside, Alex was the fastest rider on Friday.

The lights went out and Marc Marquez lead into turn one as Bezzecchi spun up and was down in 15th position.

Jorge Martin from seventh had a good start and by the end of the opening lap was third but he was out of the race at turn one with a problem with the front brake disc.

Alex Marquez moved into second place with a block pass on Zarco at turn nine. The rain flags were being waved in the first sector.

Zarco and Di Giannantonio began to duel for the final podium spot, constantly swapping places in the third and fourth sectors. The Italian finally made the move stick at turn five.

Raul Fernandez was on a charge as he forced Zarco wide at turn nine to take fourth position as Acosta was able to take advantage and take fifth from Zarco.

Zarco refused to give up and attacked Acosta at turn six and made it stick, Acosta responded at turn nine, but the Frenchman retaliated at turn ten and Acosta dropped behind Enea Bastianini with his teammate Brad Binder right behind him.

Alex Marquez had caught his brother Marc and was waiting to make the move, but they had to be careful as Di Giannantonio was one second faster than them.

Alex Marquez took the lead around the outside at turn eight as the rain was falling in the third sector.

Toprak Razgatlioglu got caught up with Lorenzo Savadori and both went down at turn five. Marc Marquez lost the front at the final corner and he entered the pitlane with multiple riders.

Jack Miller went down as did Alex Marquez. Di Giannantonio was leading but would need to pit, Brad Binder was in the net lead. Fermin Aldeguer chose to stay out, Pedro Acosta had also crashed.

Binder went down at turn two so Francesco Bagnaia was now the net leader, Marco Bezzecchi went down. The factory Ducati’s overtook Aldeguer. Marquez made an aggressive move on Bagnaia into turn nine to take the lead.

Marc Marquez took the Tissot Sprint victory ahead of his teammate Pecco Bagnaia with Franco Morbidelli rounding out the podium in third. Brad Binder after his crash was fourth with Di Giannantonio in fifth, Fernandez in sixth with Fabio Quartararo in seventh with Zarco in eighth and Luca Marini in ninth.

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