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2022 MotoGP Portuguese GP: Full race results

Fabio Quartararo kickstarted his MotoGP world championship defence in a thrilling Portuguese Grand Prix, crossing the line over five seconds ahead to take his first win of the 2022 season.

Race winner Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing

Race winner Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing

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The Yamaha rider passed early leader Joan Mir on the fourth lap and romped to a crucial first win of a so far difficult season, having failed to win a race since Silverstone last year.

Mir streaked away off the line from second on the grid to lead a race for the first time since his title-winning season in 2020, while Quartararo leaped from fifth to third.

Between the two champions was Pramac poleman Johann Zarco, but Quartararo took second into the Turn 3 right-hander as Mir pulled around six tenths clear at the front.

Quartararo was soon within striking distance, making his move into Turn 1 on the fourth tour having nailed his run out of the sweeping downhill final corner and taken profit of the Suzuki’s tow.

Zarco was briefly shoved back to fifth by factory Ducati counterpart Jack Miller and the LCR Honda of Alex Marquez – though he quickly got back into the podium places by the end of the second lap.

Joan Mir, Team Suzuki MotoGP

Joan Mir, Team Suzuki MotoGP

Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images

The Frenchman finished in second place, having passed Mir on lap 17 and leaving the Suzuki man to fend off fourth-placed Jack Miller.

But the pair collided on lap 19, with Miller losing the front of his Ducati under braking and wiping out Mir.

This promoted Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro up to third, with the Argentina winner now third in the championship standings with 66 points behind Quartararo and Suzuki’s Alex Rins, both on 69.

Rins qualified in 23rd after making a strategy error in the wet-to-dry Q1 session, but rocketed to 11th on the opening lap and marched his way through the bottom half of the top 10 before finishing fourth.

Home hero Miguel Oliveira completed the top five on his factory KTM, with Marc Marquez beating his brother Alex Marquez by 0.020s across the line after the pair engaged in a heated battle for sixth in the closing stages.

The six-time world champion had a similarly tight battle with team-mate Pol Espargaro in the early stages, but came out on top, while the latter was shuffled back to ninth behind Francesco Bagnaia on the Ducati – the pair making contact on the final lap at Turn 9.

The top 10 was completed by Maverick Vinales on the sister Aprilia, with RNF Racing’s Andrea Dovizioso, VR46 Ducati rider Luca Marini, Yamaha’s Franco Morbidelli, Tech3 KTM rookie Remy Gardner and the sister VR46 bike of Marco Bezzecchi took the final points.

2022 MotoGP Portuguese GP: Race results

Cla Rider Bike Gap Interval
1 France Fabio Quartararo Yamaha    
2 France Johann Zarco Ducati 5.409 5.409
3 Spain Aleix Espargaro Aprilia 6.068 0.659
4 Spain Alex Rins Suzuki 9.633 3.565
5 Portugal Miguel Oliveira KTM 13.573 3.940
6 Spain Marc Marquez Honda 16.163 2.590
7 Spain Alex Marquez Honda 16.183 0.020
8 Italy Francesco Bagnaia Ducati 16.511 0.328
9 Spain Pol Espargaro Honda 16.769 0.258
10 Spain Maverick Viñales Aprilia 18.063 1.294
11 Italy Andrea Dovizioso Yamaha 29.029 10.966
12 Italy Luca Marini Ducati 29.249 0.220
13 Italy Franco Morbidelli Yamaha 33.354 4.105
14 Australia Remy Gardner KTM 40.205 6.851
15 Italy Marco Bezzecchi Ducati 46.052 5.847
16 Japan Takaaki Nakagami Honda 49.569 3.517
17 South Africa Darryn Binder Yamaha 50.303 0.734
  Italy Lorenzo Savadori Aprilia 1 Lap 1 Lap
  Italy Fabio Di Giannantonio Ducati 4 Laps 3 Laps
  Spain Joan Mir Suzuki 7 Laps 3 Laps
  Australia Jack Miller Ducati 7 Laps 0.124
  South Africa Brad Binder KTM 8 Laps 1 Lap
  Italy Enea Bastianini Ducati 16 Laps 8 Laps
  Spain Jorge Martin Ducati 21 Laps 5 Laps

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