Barcelona Moto3: Bastianini wins as Martin crashes from lead

Gresini's Martin led off the line and only Tatsuki Suzuki was able to keep up with the local rider as the duo pulled away from a large group fighting for third.

Their lead was up to 2.5s when the chasing group started to catch back up as Bastianini, Aron Canet, Jaume Masia and Bezzecchi stopped fighting for position.

However, Martin soon crashed at Turn 9, and Suzuki, now alone, lost all his advantage, as well as the lead to Bastianini, in a single lap.

An 11-rider fight for the win ensued afterwards, with the lead changing at the end of the main straight on every lap.

The top group shrunk as Ayumu Sasaki crashed and then a massive incident involving Aron Canet, Nicolo Bulega, Albert Arenas occurred at Turn 5. The crash was caused by Arenas tagging Canet, who then collected Bulega.

Two laps later, Jaume Masia hit Andrea Migno while braking into Turn 1, both of them crashing out.

Only five riders remained in the lead group for the final four laps, with John McPhee and Bezzecchi trading first place initially.

However, Bastianini slipstreamed his way into the lead from fourth on the final lap and pulled away just enough to deny a counter attack.

The Leopard rider crossed the finish line first by 0.167s to take his first win since the 2016 Japanese Grand Prix.

Gabriel Rodrigo was up to second on the last lap but ended up losing the position to Bezzecchi by 0.003s coming out of the final corner.

With Martin crashing, Bezzecchi extended his championship lead to 19 points with Fabio Di Giannantonio taking over as his main challenger.

Di Giannantonio had a low-key race, starting only 13th and dropping to last when he ran wide early on.

However, with 11 riders retiring and four more penalised, the Gresini rider recovered to seventh.

McPhee took his best finish of the season in fourth with Suzuki eventually settling for fifth.

Rookie Alonso Lopez (Estrella Galicia 0,0) crossed the line sixth but was given a two-place penalty for an illegal manoeuvre and not respecting track limits, which dropped him behind Kaito Toba (Honda Team Asia) and Di Giannantonio.

Sky VR46's Dennis Foggia and wildcard Angel Nieto's Raul Fernandez completed the top 10.

Darryn Binder crashed on the opening lap with Kazuki Masaki and Marcos Ramirez also retiring.

Race results

Cla	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Enea Bastianini	Honda	21	38'36.883
2	Marco Bezzecchi	KTM	21	38'37.050	0.167
3	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	21	38'37.053	0.170
4	John McPhee	KTM	21	38'37.140	0.257
5	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	21	38'37.522	0.639
6	Kaito Toba	Honda	21	38'43.684	6.801
7	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	21	38'43.755	6.872
8	Alonso Lopez	Honda	21	38'43.483	6.600
9	Dennis Foggia	KTM	21	38'44.198	7.315
10	Raul Fernandez	KTM	21	38'44.390	7.507
11	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	21	38'44.521	7.638
12	Makar Yurchenko	KTM	21	38'45.146	8.263
13	Adam Norrodin	Honda	21	38'52.139	15.256
14	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	Honda	21	39'03.504	26.621
15	Livio Loi	KTM	21	39'05.442	28.559
16	Philipp Ottl	KTM	21	39'09.863	32.980
17	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Honda	19	39'11.677	2 laps
	Jaume Masia	KTM	17	31'14.290	4 laps
	Andrea Migno	KTM	17	31'14.355	4 laps
	Aron Canet	Honda	15	27'32.798	6 laps
	Nicolo Bulega	KTM	15	27'33.068	6 laps
	Albert Arenas	KTM	15	27'33.506	6 laps
	Tony Arbolino	Honda	15	28'14.859	6 laps
	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	15	28'52.793	6 laps
	Marcos Ramirez	KTM	14	27'02.901	7 laps
	Jorge Martin	Honda	8	14'39.927	13 laps
	Kazuki Masaki	KTM	4	7'26.918	17 laps
	Darryn Binder	KTM	0