Barcelona Moto2: Quartararo leads Oliveira for maiden win

The early stages of the race were all about Oliveira, who made a sensational start from 17th, running as high as sixth after Lap 1.

He made two more moves next time around, and snuck past Marcel Schrotter at T4 when the German was slightly wide as Quartararo was passing him.

Oliveira then passed 19-year-old Quartararo on the same lap and closely followed early leader Alex Marquez before pulling off a move at Turn 10 on lap 7.

However, pole-sitter Quartararo also overtook Marquez a lap later and took advantage of a mistake from Oliveira at Turn 4 to take the lead.

Oliveira kept up with the Frenchman for a few laps before beginning to lose ground, with Quartararo's lead up to two seconds for the final five laps.

Quartararo then cruised to the finish to celebrate his maiden grand prix victory, as well as Speed Up's first win since Sam Lowes' triumph at Austin in 2015.

Oliveira settled for second but is now only two points behind Francesco Bagnaia in the standings as the Italian took seventh.

The Portuguese rider was hit by Simone Corsi's Kalex on the main straight after he finished, with both riders falling off their bikes but emerging seemingly unscathed.

Alex Marquez couldn't keep up with the top two and had to settle for third, followed by the Intact GP duo of Schrotter, who recovered from running wide at Turn 1, and Xavi Vierge.

Brad Binder finished sixth for the fifth time in seven races ahead of Lorenzo Baldassarri and Bagnaia.

Sam Lowes completed an impressive recovery behind them. The Briton was set to start ninth but a fuel pump issue forced him to last, only for him to fight back and end up in his original position.

His CGBM teammate Iker Lecuona completed the top 10.

Nine riders, including Joan Mir, Romano Fenati and Mattia Pasini retired from the race.

Race results

Cla	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Fabio Quartararo	Speed Up	22	38'22.059
2	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	22	38'24.551	2.492
3	Alex Marquez	Kalex	22	38'25.544	3.485
4	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	22	38'26.457	4.398
5	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	22	38'26.746	4.687
6	Brad Binder	KTM	22	38'29.696	7.637
7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	22	38'29.783	7.724
8	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	22	38'32.670	10.611
9	Sam Lowes	KTM	22	38'35.968	13.909
10	Iker Lecuona	KTM	22	38'37.183	15.124
11	Andrea Locatelli	Kalex	22	38'38.042	15.983
12	Simone Corsi	Kalex	22	38'38.464	16.405
13	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	22	38'41.054	18.995
14	Augusto Fernandez	Kalex	22	38'42.300	20.241
15	Remy Gardner	Tech 3	22	38'42.468	20.409
16	Edgar Pons	Kalex	22	38'46.597	24.538
17	Luca Marini	Kalex	22	38'49.668	27.609
18	Steven Odendaal	NTS	22	38'50.285	28.226
19	Khairul Idham Pawi	Kalex	22	38'50.699	28.640
20	Dominique Aegerter	KTM	22	38'51.276	29.217
21	Danny Kent	Speed Up	22	38'52.354	30.295
22	Joe Roberts	NTS	22	38'59.659	37.600
23	Jules Danilo	Kalex	22	39'00.708	38.649
24	Dimas Ekky Pratama	Honda	22	39'06.663	44.604
25	Eric Granado	Suter	22	39'11.550	49.491
	Isaac Viñales	Kalex	22	32'59.992
	Romano Fenati	Kalex	22	28'44.673
	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	22	24'30.956
	Joan Mir	Kalex	22	21'03.948
	Federico Fuligni	Kalex	22	21'41.110
	Jorge Navarro	Kalex	22	14'01.517
	Bo Bendsneyder	Tech 3	0
	Niki Tuuli	Kalex	0
	Stefano Manzi	Suter	0