Joan Mir took his second consecutive Moto3 victory in Argentina, as John McPhee and Jorge Martin repeated the podium order of the season opener in Qatar.

The early stages of the race saw several riders fight at the front with Gresini rider Martin and Leopard's Mir leading for most of the time.

Mir, who started from 16th, fought his way to first in just seven laps, and was part of a five-man lead group that formed at around the halfway point.

The Spaniard kept ahead of McPhee (British Talent Team), Martin, Phillip Oettl (Schedl) and Andrea Migno (Sky Racing VR46) for most of the race, only giving up the lead temporarily with a small mistake.

He started the final lap with a small advantage, although McPhee was able to put him under pressure in the last few corners.

However, it was Mir who crossed the line first, with McPhee and Martin following behind to complete an identical podium to the season opener in Qatar.

"I tried to do the pace of free practice," said Mir. "I knew before the race that I had the pace. I just needed to keep calm and try to fight on the last laps. To get a second victory is amazing."

Oettl and Migno had to settle for fourth and fifth, while Mir's Livio Loi led the second group in sixth ahead of Romano Fenati (Marinelli Rivacold Snipers) and Tatsuki Suzuki (SIC58 Squadra Corse).

Starting sixth, Fenati lost ground at the start to drop to the lower parts of the top 20, and then was involved in a collision with Niccolo Antonelli, which resulted in the Ajo KTM rider's retirement.

"Fenati pushed me, I was closing the corner and he came full against me, I don't know," Antonelli said.

Fenati was investigated for the incident, but was ultimately not penalised.

Another incident happened between Niccolo Bulega (Sky Racing VR46) and Fabio di Giannantonio (Gresini), causing the latter to fall.

Bulega went on to finish 13th, but was later penalised two seconds for causing the incident, dropping out of the points in 16th.

Race results:

Pos.	#	Rider	Bike	Time/Gap
1	36	Joan Mir	Honda	38'33.377
2	17	John McPhee	Honda	0.261
3	88	Jorge Martin	Honda	0.339
4	65	Philipp Ottl	KTM	0.641
5	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	0.890
6	11	Livio Loi	Honda	7.598
7	5	Romano Fenati	Honda	7.761
8	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	7.831
9	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	12.000
10	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	12.079
11	44	Aron Canet	Honda	12.278
12	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	12.294
13	8	Nicolo Bulega	KTM	12.393
14	42	Marcos Ramirez	KTM	12.480
15	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	12.620
16	6	Maria Herrera	KTM	13.083
17	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	18.861
18	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Peugeot	20.573
19	12	Marco Bezzecchi	Mahindra	26.774
20	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	26.905
21	96	Manuel Pagliani	Mahindra	27.400
22	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	27.534
23	64	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	27.612
24	41	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	Honda	35.218
25	75	Albert Arenas	Mahindra	50.124
26	4	Patrik Pulkkinen	Peugeot	1'18.379
27	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	1'20.064
Ret	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	9 laps
Ret	48	Lorenzo dalla Porta	Mahindra	9 laps
Ret	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	10 laps
Ret	23	Niccolo Antonelli	KTM	20 laps