Spain’s Jorge Martin received an exciting Thailand MotoGP race Sunday to shut the hole on Francesco Bagnaia on the earth championship race.
Italy’s Bagnaia crossed the road third behind Brad Binder however was awarded second place after the South African was demoted a spot for exceeding observe limits.
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The trio had been concerned in a titanic tussle over the closing laps with the lead exchanging palms earlier than pole-sitter Martin pipped his rivals.
Bagnaia, trying to defend his world title, has seen his championship lead minimize to 13 factors by Martin, who additionally received Saturday’s dash on the Buriram International circuit.
Martin had received the final 5 dash races however not fared so nicely within the grands prix.
He crashed whereas main in Indonesia a fortnight in the past to reward Bagnaia the championship lead.
Then a disastrous gamble on a gentle rear tyre final weekend in Australia noticed the Italian lengthen his lead to 27 factors as Martin completed fifth.
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But the Spaniard closed the hole to 18 factors with a dominant victory in Saturday’s 13-lap dash after which decreased it by one other 5 factors after profitable the 26-lap foremost race by simply 0.253 seconds.
The riders now head to Malaysia’s Sepang circuit in two weeks’ time with the championship duel trying seemingly to go to the wire.
The season rounds off in Qatar and Valencia subsequent month.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)
