Ducati's MotoGP world champion Francesco 'Pecco' Bagnaia won a sprint race from pole position at the Grand Prix of the Americas in Austin on Saturday to pile the pressure on series leader Marco Bezzecchi.
The Italian, who had smashed the Texas track's lap record in qualifying, took the chequered flag 2.545 seconds ahead of LCR Honda's Alex Rins for his third victory of the season after a sprint/race double in Portugal.
"I preferred this sprint race to the one in Argentina, that I was more in trouble," said Bagnaia, who started on the front row two weeks ago but finished only sixth. Rins then ceded second place to Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro and nearly lost third to Yamaha's attacking French rider Fabio Quartararo, the 2021 world champion.
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