JAKARTA: Spaniard Jorge Martin won Saturday’s sprint race at the Indonesia MotoGP to overtake rival Francesco Bagnaia in the championship standings.
Luca Marini, who had earlier claimed pole position in qualifying, took second, with Marco Bezzecchi complet-ing the podium a week after surgery for a broken collarbone.
The Ducati satellite team rider took his fourth straight sprint race victory to leave him on 328 points, seven ahead of Bagnaia, who finished eighth.
“I feel super. Starting from sixth maybe was not the best, but at least I was able to overtake,” he told reporters.
“Winning was tough... but yeah finally leading the championship at this point feels great. It’s a dream.”
He said he hoped he could “finish the weekend in the same way” at Sunday’s main event.
Martin finished more than a second ahead of the Italian Marini, who earlier set a record lap at the Mandalika circuit on the resort island of Lombok.
It is the first time Martin has led the MotoGP championship in his career. Agencies
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