MotoGP™ Race Highlights 🔥 | 2024 #SpanishGP

It is lights out and we are racing in MotoGP here in Spain. This time around, Marc Marquez has nailed the start from 4th position. Just listen to the roar of the crowd as Jorge Martín moves up on the inside of Marco Bersseke into 2nd place. Pekka Banyai's got away well too. He's on the outside of Bersseke into 4th from 7th spot. But it's Marc Marquez in front of his passionate home crowd that leads his home Grand Prix. Yeah, just to start, Pekka Banyai wanted. He just stayed on the left-hand side, just stayed well out of trouble into 1st and then picked a couple off on the way through the corner. So he's up into 4th. Pedro Acosta coming to the first sector down in 17th place. It's been a nightmare start for the rookie. Not a great start either for Binder, who got the whole shot yesterday. He started 4th. He's already been pushed back down to 6th place. Under pressure early on from the Gen Antonio, coming from a long, long way back. How far back goes Pekka Banyai? How did he get that stop? What a first lap that's been for the world champion. He's got the inside line though through on Marc Marquez. Pekka Banyai started this Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez down in 7th place. He leads at the end of an incredible first lap. Allegedly first lap, but Marc Marquez is fighting straight back into turn number 1. And Jorge Martín's going to take advantage. They go three abreast. Marquez, Martín and Banyai. How did they avoid contact? Three of them almost lost the front there. Sideways goes Banyai. He's made a mistake. He's got in way, way too hot. And Martín and Marquez, power on through. And now Banyai, side by side with Marquez. Look, Marquez missed the drive coming out of that final turn. Martín then does hit the front. Banyai now in 2nd. Oh, Zarco. And there was contact there, wasn't it? Between Zarco and Acosta. The fact that he's already back with Zarco in the first, that tells you that he'd already messed up the start before he even got to turn 5. Joan Zarco going full dodging was there, wasn't he? On Pedro Acosta. That's a fast corner as well, sweeping through turn 5. Dani Pedrosa. Well, there's going to be no double podium after he was inherited the sprint rostrum yesterday. Here comes Benseki on the inside of Marquez. Those two have got recent history as well. Banyai wants to reverse this momentum that Martín has got, but he can't outbrake the race leader. That's incredible on-board action. Martín's knee and elbow scrubbing the tarmac through turn 6. The Pedrosa corner. A weekend to forget for Aleix Asparguer, who hit a wet patch on lap 1 in the sprint yesterday. And an almighty high side into turn 8. Oh, it's contact with Joan Zarco. And Zarco looked like he went down too, to me. He did indeed. So Aleix Asparguer, I think, perhaps a little bit ambitious, and perhaps his patience finally ran out. Two of the most experienced riders in, well, full-time on the MotoGP grid. The wise old heads have bitten the dust here. Dani Pedrosa, 38. Joan Zarco, 33. Aleix Asparguer, 34. All in the gravel trap, unfortunately. Marco Benseki still there in third place. And what looks at the moment like a pretty comfortable third to his credit. Yeah, a couple laps ago, Marquez was a little bit... Martín down on the end of the straight! Martín's gone down! Jorge Martín. We thought this year it was a new look, a more experienced, a more mature Jorge Martín. The mistakes that he made last year, which ultimately cost him the chance to win the MotoGP World Championship. And Jorge Martín crashes out at turn 6. The front folds on the Prima Proma Ducati. If you don't save those, he crashes out of the lead here in Jerez. He crashed out of a three-second lead, didn't he, in Mandelika last year, which was a massive blow to his title. Still a long, long way to go in this MotoGP World Championship. We'll stay on board with the 93. On the inside he goes. Benseki tried so, so hard to top it out of the brakes. Both of their Ducatis, both their GP23s were snaking left, they were snaking right. They were nosedived on the front end, but it's Marquez that comes out the better of that fight. And immediately he's been able to gap Benseki and start now the assault, the attack towards Bagnaia. Acosta on the inside there of Jack Miller on the brakes into the Dani Pedrosa hairpin. And Acosta is into the top 10. The bad news for him is that he's got four seconds up ahead of him to Vinales, but he is limiting the damage. Benseki at the moment is in a pretty lonely and safe third place. He's got an advantage back to that. That's Modigliani and Miller having a... And I think Jack's pretty angry at Frankie by the looks of that. Well, it's fair to say that's a very frank exchange of opinion, isn't it? Through Turn 5 we go. And a little bit further around than we saw the latest Bygroes, Johan Zarchu incident. But the stewards are going to be busy post-race looking at that one. Bastianini toughing it out with Binder in the braking zone for the first corner. These two went down on that wet patch at Turn 5 in the Tissot sprint yesterday. This is a fight for fifth. Marc Marquez sets the fastest lap of the Grand Prix. 1.37.708. He is starting to really hunt down Peco Bagnaia now. The gap under half a second, 0.485 of a second. As they sweep through Turn 4. Marquez is not going to be close enough to attack on the brakes into Turn 6. He's just going to be patient here. Got to pick his moment as they power out of the Pedrosa corner. They'll flick it left now through 7 and 8, where Marquez has been really super strong. Turn 9 is his best shot, I think. Is he going to be close enough to have a launch on the inside of Bagnaia? This is the moment, here he comes into the Aspar corner. Marc Marquez leads the Spanish Grand Prix. Bagnaia, though, instantly tries to fight back. They touch, they rub going through Turn 10. This is Portobelo almost all over again. On the exit as well, they touch on the entry to Turn 10. They rub on the exit of Turn 10 as well. Hold on to your hats on the edge of your seat. Have you got any nails left at home? Because Peco Bagnaia is going shoulder to shoulder. He is going toe to toe here with Marc Marquez. They come out of the final corner. The crowd are on their feet. The noise is deafening here in Jerez. But it's Bagnaia that leads, 4 to go. The crowd are going absolutely ballistic in the background here. No question where their loyalty lies. No question where their allegiances is. As Marc Marquez now is going to try again, isn't he? Into Turn 9. Bagnaia will hear the GP23 coming behind him. Will he go defensive here? Tight into 9. Here comes Marquez, though. And once again, he fires on the inside of Bagnaia. He's going to run him wide again, though. And Bagnaia on the cutback seizes the lead once again. Successive laps here in Jerez. Lap 21 and now lap 22, where Bagnaia and Marquez have totted out in Turn 9. This was where they made contact. Look how much Bagnaia wanted this. Marquez was wanting to turn in. Bagnaia just would not allow him. There's some Portimao payback here, isn't there? These are two of not just the best in modern day MotoGP, two of the very best. Davide Tardozzi, he can't watch. He's got a few more grey hairs on his head right now. As the Davide Tardozzi, Gigi Dallegna, looking somewhat tense and pensive. What a lap! Paco Bagnaia on 23 lap hold. Somehow has found a 1.37.449 over 4 tenths clear of Marc Marquez. I think it's all coming too little too late. Paco Bagnaia, yet Marquez will not be close enough to attack Paco Bagnaia in the final corner. What a race! What a ride! What a world champion! Paco Bagnaia reigns in Spain. He does complete the Jerez hat-trick in one of the most memorable Spanish Grands Prix we've witnessed for many, many a year. Unbelievable! A record MotoGP crowd have just been treated to some spectacle. MotoGP at its very, very best. Paco Bagnaia takes the chequered flag by just in the four tenths of a second clear of Marc Marquez. Marquez did go all in as we knew he would do. He set his best lap of the race on the last lap at 1.37.637. Marco Bettecchi takes third place. And we witnessed true sporting excellence from Paco Bagnaia and from Marc Marquez. There was so little to choose between them in the end. But for all the victories that Paco Bagnaia has taken, that's his 30th in all classes, his 20th in MotoGP. Surely none of them will taste as sweet as this one. There's FIM president Jorge Villegas, hands him the trophy. A clash of the titans at Jerez as Bagnaia shows why he's the world number one.