Aron Canet joined the Moto3 winner's circle in the first European race of the season at Jerez, beating Romano Fenati and championship leader Joan Mir with a double overtake at the last corner.

At the start of the race, Fenati shot past Canet in the run down to Turn 1, before dispatching pole-sitter Jorge Martin in the following sequence of corners to take the lead of the race.

However, Fenati’s stint at the front of the pack didn’t last for too long, with Darryn Binder passing the Italian to take the the top spot.

The two riders traded positions for a number of laps, before Binder's Platinum Bay teammate Marcos Ramirez passed both of them to emerge as the new race leader.

While the Spaniard could never break away from the rest of the field and was overtaken at a number of occasions during the 23-lap race, he was always able to regain the lead within a matter of corners.

But the final three laps of the race proved to be decisive as Ramirez fell down to fourth after running wide, allowing Canet, Fenati and Mir to make it a three-way fight for victory.

On the final tour, Fenati led the race from Mir and Canet, with Ramirez still in contention for victory.

Canet, who crashed out of victory contention at COTA last time out, lunged down the inside of Mir and Fenati at the final corner, making the move stick to win the race by just 0.031s from the Rivacold rider.

Mir crossed the line 0.124s adrift in third, while Ramirez had to settle for fourth place after leading much of the race.

Fabio di Giannantonio was classified fifth, ahead of Andrea Migno, Nicolo Bulega and Enea Bastianini.

Pole-sitter Martin could finish no higher than ninth, while Juanfran Guevara completed the top 10.

John McPhee sprinted from 25th to 18th in the opening lap, but could never break into the lead group. The Englishman then lost control of his bike while braking into Turn 1, eventually retiring from the race.

Race Results:

Pos.	Driver	Bike	Gap
1	Aron Canet	Honda	-
2	Romano Fenati	Honda	0.031
3	Joan Mir	Honda	0.155
4	Marcos Ramirez	KTM	0.358
5	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	50.946
6	Andrea Migno	KTM	51.162
7	Nicolo Bulega	KTM	51.417
8	Enea Bastianini	Honda	51.456
9	Jorge Martin	Honda	51.961
10	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	52.000
11	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	7.431
12	Jules Danilo	Honda	9.958
13	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	10.028
14	Albert Arenas	Mahindra	10.665
15	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	14.062
16	Livio Loi	Honda	20.451
17	Kaito Toba	Honda	20.699
18	Jakub Kornfeil	Peugeot	20.836
19	Lorenzo dalla Porta	Mahindra	21.624
20	Darryn Binder	KTM	34.081
21	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	Honda	37.754
22	Niccolo Antonelli	KTM	37.799
23	Tony Arbolino	Honda	37.915
24	Maria Herrera	KTM	38.014
25	Raul Fernandez	Mahindra	57.408
26	Patrik Pulkkinen	Peugeot	57.494
27	Manuel Pagliani	Mahindra	1'00.920
Ret	John McPhee	Honda	9 laps
Ret	Marco Bezzecchi	Mahindra	10 laps
Ret	Adam Norrodin	Honda	11 laps
Ret	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	20 laps
Ret	Vicente Perez	KTM	22 laps