MotoGP: World Championship Race Results From Catalunya
Aleix Espargaro won the FIM MotoGP World Championship race Sunday at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, in Spain. Riding his factory Aprilia RS-GP, the Spaniard won the restarted 23-lap race by just 0.377 second.
Espargaro’s Aprilia teammate Maverick Vinales was the runner-up, and Jorge Martin finished third, 2.831 seconds behind Espargaro, on his Prima Pramac Racing Ducati Desmosedici.
The race was marred by two incidents on the original start. First, several riders crashed in a chain-reaction incident in Turn One. Then seconds later, Francesco Bagnaia highsided coming out of Turn Two and his right leg was run over by another rider.
Crashers between the two incidents included Bagnaia, Enea Bastianini, Marco Bezzecchi, Brad Binder, Fabio Di Giannantonio, Alex Marquez, and Johann Zarco.
Bagnaia and Bastianini did not make the restart. Bagnaia was taken to a local hospital to get more detailed scans of his injured leg.