Jorge Martin celebrates a confident start-to-finish victory in the MotoGP sprint at Le Mans. He also benefits from various problems faced by his rivals: Francesco Bagnaia retires with technical problems, Aleix Espargaro is penalized after a jump start and Marco Bezzecchi crashes while lying in second place. Joining Martin on the podium are Marc Marquez after catching up from 13th place on the grid and Maverick Vinales.
In the World Championship, Martin extends his lead to 28 points over Enea Bastianini. Bagnaia is missing 29 points, Pedro Acosta 31, Vinales 34 and Marc Marquez 35.
MotoGP Le Mans: The racing film in the sprint
The starting lineup: 1. Martin, 2. Bagnaia, 3. Vinales, 4. Di Giannantonio, 5. Bezzecchi, 6. A. Espargaro, 7. Acosta, 8. Quartararo, 9. Morbidelli, 10. Bastianini, 11. Miller, 12. Oliveira , 13. M. Marquez, 14. R. Fernandez, 15. Zarco, 16. Rins, 17. A. Marquez, 18. Mir, 19. Nakagami, 20. A. Fernandez, 21. Marini, 22. Binder
Begin: Martin confidently defends his pole position, also because Bagnaia completely screwed up the start from P2 and fell back to 15th place. Behind leader Bagnaia are Bezzecchi, Aleix Espargaro, Vinales, Di Giannantonio and Marc Marquez, who started from P13.
1 round: Marc Marquez is still on the rise! He concedes Di Giannantonio and Vinales within a few corners – fourth place for the Gresini driver.
2nd round: Aleix Espargaro got off to an early start! The stewards report this. He therefore has to serve a double longlap penalty.
3rd round: Bagnaia is out of the race! He drags his Ducati around the track in last place. There was probably a technical problem with the machine.
4th round: Aleix Espargaro turns into the first long lap. Marc Marquez and Vinales pass him into third and fourth place.
Joan Mir crashed in turn 8.
7th round: Alex Rins also got hit in turn eight.
10th round: Bezzecchi has fallen! Under pressure from Marc Marquez, the VR46 driver throws his machine away in turn 9.
13th and final round: Martin drives his lead to the finish line dry as dust.
Goal: Martin wins by 2.280 seconds over Marc Marquez, Vinales completes the podium. Bastianini comes fourth ahead of Aleix Espargaro and Pedro Acosta. The final points go to Fabio Di Giannantonio, Jack Miller and Raul Fernandez. Fabio Quartararo narrowly missed out on a World Cup point in the home sprint in tenth place. Brad Binder only made it to 15th place from the last starting position.