Martin led off the line from his record-breaking 14th pole position, and tried to initially create a gap to the pack was closely followed by Enea Bastianini, Aron Canet, John McPhee and Bezzecchi, who came up from ninth on the opening lap.

Martin had an advantage of 0.8s while they squabbled for second, but after Canet picked off Bastianini and Bezzecchi in one lap for second, he hauled in Martin and brought the chasing pack with him.

Several lead changes ensued as KTM pair McPhee and Bezzecchi would power past the less punchy Hondas through Hoge Heide, but would come under challenge again through the Timmer chicane and into the first corner.

Bezzecchi ran wide on the exit of Turn 1 with three laps to go, allowing Martin through and handing him a significant advantage of 0.5s to McPhee when he passed his fellow KTM rider.

But McPhee crashed at Turn 9 after losing the front end of his CIP-run bike, and Prustel GP rider Bezzecchi also ended up in the gravel on the final lap of the race while running fourth.

That meant Gresini Honda man Martin took the victory, becoming the first Moto3 rider to do so from pole in Assen, and takes a two-point lead in the championship from Bezzecchi.

Bastianini (Leopard Honda) came up the inside of Canet (Estrella Galicia Honda) at Hoge Heide for second on the final lap, but Canet fought back into the Timmer chicane to secure the position.

Bester Capital KTM rider Jaume Masia led the second group battle for fourth from 15th on the grid, ahead of Prustel’s Jakub Kornfeil, who came up from 23rd after taking a 12-place grid penalty for irresponsible riding in free practice.

Lorenzo Dalla Porta was sixth on the second Leopard bike, with Red Bull KTM’s Darryn Binder seventh ahead of Gabriel Rodrigo (RBA KTM), Fabio di Giannantonio (Gresini) and Marcos Ramirez (Bester Capital).

Race results:

Pos.	#	Rider	Bike	Interval
1	88	Jorge Martin	Honda	22 laps
2	44	Aron Canet	Honda	0.665
3	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	0.053
4	5	Jaume Masia	KTM	10.124
5	84	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	0.111
6	48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Honda	0.368
7	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	0.022
8	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	0.394
9	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	0.019
10	42	Marcos Ramirez	KTM	0.010
11	8	Nicolo Bulega	KTM	0.011
12	10	Dennis Foggia	KTM	0.196
13	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	11.310
14	75	Albert Arenas	KTM	0.484
15	23	Niccolo Antonelli	Honda	0.060
16	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	0.023
17	65	Philipp Ottl	KTM	0.152
18	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	0.038
19	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	3.057
20	22	Kazuki Masaki	KTM	0.099
21	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	0.064
22	41	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	Honda	0.143
23	72	Alonso Lopez	Honda	0.216
24	32	Ai Ogura	Honda	0.025
25	11	Livio Loi	KTM	0.395
26	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	6.899
27	81	Stefano Nepa	KTM	17.132
28	18	Ryan Van De Lagemaat	KTM	1 lap
Ret	12	Marco Bezzecchi	KTM	1 lap
Ret	17	John McPhee	KTM	2 laps