2022 MotoGP Portuguese GP: Full race results

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

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