Marco Bezzecchi hizo historia. The Italian, despite the initial harassment from both Jorge Martín and his compatriot Pecco Bagnaia, ended up winning the first MotoGP Indian Grand Prix in a completely incontestable manner.. The great advantage of the Italian with respect to his closest pursuers meant that all attention was focused on a duel for second place that was completely transcendental for the championship.. The side by side between Martín and Bezzecchi became a real coup for the World Cup just when the current championship leader seemed to be in a position to increase the distance with the second. His fall, when braking to take a curve, ended up causing the Spaniard to now be just 13 points behind the leader with his second place in Buddh. Fabio Quartararo, meanwhile, closed the podium.

“I'm very happy. It has been a very long and arduous race.. I wanted to vindicate myself, I was able to take the lead quite early and I set my pace. “I want to dedicate this victory to a friend of mine who, unfortunately, passed away a couple of days ago, Filippo Momesso,” said Bezzecchi at the end of the race.. “It was a difficult race, I gave it my all and my team leader told me that it was one of the best I have done and that I will be able to go to sleep peacefully tonight,” said the third-placed Frenchman. Fabio Quartararo.

Martín's second place was not without suspense. Almost, until the end. Quartararo, in the last lap, took advantage of a mistake to momentarily snatch second place. The aggressiveness of the Spaniard, not at all willing to let some very valuable points slip away, led him to return the ball in a few hectic seconds.. At the same level as the one-on-one that he had played with Pecco Bagnaia at the start of the test. Before that final fight with Quartararo, the Spaniard also gave another point of suspense to his promotion to the second step of the podium with an apparently insignificant detail that could have cost him dearly..

For a while, he drove with the zipper of his suit slightly lowered, but he managed to put it back on and avoid a possible sanction from the judges that could have had serious consequences in his fight for the championship.. The effort was such that he even suffered an apparent drop in blood pressure once the test was over, which caused him to have to be briefly treated by doctors.

The fall of Márquez

Bagnaia's fall was the big shock and, in turn, the big splash of cold water on the race. Until then, the person who seemed to be going to win such a dubious honor was Marc Márquez who, after managing to get on the podium in the sprint race on Saturday and riding in fourth position for several laps at the start of the race, but went to the ground when crossing the finish line with 16 laps to go. Although he managed to hold on to his Honda and was able to get back into the race, he dropped to sixteenth position..

The one from Cervera, however, managed to climb several positions and finally finished the test in a creditable ninth position, after several pilots also abandoned the race.. Augusto Fernández, Aleix Espargaró and Fabio di Giannantonio, meanwhile, had to retire due to different mechanical problems. As for the rest of the Spanish drivers, with the already known absence due to injury of Álex Márquez, Joan Mir finished the race in fifth place, Maverick Viñales, in eighth, Raúl Fernández, in tenth and Pol Espargaró, in thirteenth.