Assen Moto2: Bagnaia wins to rebuild points lead

Bagnaia led from pole position and immediately began to build a gap to the chasing field, working up a 2.5s advantage over Pons racer Lorenzo Baldassarri who came up from 13th on the grid.

Baldassarri had just started nibbling into Bagnaia’s lead, bringing it down to 1.5s, when he picked up a rear puncture and was forced to pit.

That promoted Catalan winner Fabio Quartararo (Speed Up) to second from 10th on the grid, after he'd picked up a three-place grid penalty for not immediately entering the pit lane during a red flag period in qualifying.

Intact GP’s Marcel Schrotter held that second spot in the early stages from the front row of the grid, but he let Marc VDS rider Alex Marquez through when he went deep into the Timmer chicane.

In the closing stages Quartararo was charging through the field, coming through with a series of aggressive moves culminating in a pass on Marquez at Turn 4 for second.

Marquez completed the podium ahead of Schrotter, with reigning Moto3 champion Joan Mir fifth from ninth on the grid.

Red Bull KTM Ajo’s Miguel Oliviera was sixth from 17th on the grid to sit 16 points adrift of Bagnaia in the championship.

His KTM teammate Brad Binder was seventh ahead of Sky Racing’s Luca Marini, who had scored his first front row start in Grand Prix racing.

Former Aprilia MotoGP rider Sam Lowes was ninth for the CGBM Evolution squad, with Andrea Locatelli converting his first top-10 Moto2 qualifying performance into a 10th-place finish for Italtrans.

Speed Up racer Danny Kent retired from the race after a crash at the start of the race.

SIC Racing Team rider Niki Tuuli did not start the race after a heavy crash in qualifying, which required surgery on his left hand.

Race results:

Pos.	#	Rider	Bike	Time/Gap
1	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	39'30.436
2	20	Fabio Quartararo	Speed Up	1.748
3	73	Alex Marquez	Kalex	2.179
4	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	4.094
5	36	Joan Mir	Kalex	4.342
6	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	5.230
7	41	Brad Binder	KTM	9.568
8	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	9.960
9	22	Sam Lowes	KTM	14.133
10	5	Andrea Locatelli	Kalex	14.332
11	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	18.525
12	40	Augusto Fernandez	Kalex	20.297
13	9	Jorge Navarro	Kalex	20.867
14	77	Dominique Aegerter	KTM	27.394
15	24	Simone Corsi	Kalex	28.424
16	27	Iker Lecuona	KTM	28.505
17	64	Bo Bendsneyder	Tech 3	28.674
18	87	Remy Gardner	Tech 3	28.888
19	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Kalex	29.441
20	4	Steven Odendaal	NTS	39.321
21	16	Joe Roberts	NTS	39.407
22	32	Isaac Viñales	Kalex	39.750
23	95	Jules Danilo	Kalex	48.946
24	51	Eric Granado	Suter	48.976
25	21	Federico Fuligni	Kalex	1'27.879
26	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	1 lap
Ret	13	Romano Fenati	Kalex	4 laps
Ret	97	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	15 laps
Ret	62	Stefano Manzi	Suter	18 laps
Ret	52	Danny Kent	Speed Up