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Jack Miller wins Spanish GP
Updated On: 03 May, 2021 07:32 AM IST | Jerez de la Frontera (Spain) | AFP
Spanish 16-year-old Pedro Acosta took his third straight Moto3 win as three of his closest pursuers crashed on the final corner. Italian Romano Fenati on a Husqvarna inherited second place.
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Ducati Lenovo`s Jack Miller celebrates his MotoGP win at Jerez yesterday. Pic/AFP
Australian Jack Miller rode to only his second victory at the Spanish MotoGP on Sunday as Ducati team-mate Francesco Bagnaia finished runner-up to take the overall championship lead. Miller, who underwent surgery early in April, took the lead when pre-race championship leader Fabio Quartararo started to lose pace midway through the race. On a track where Ducati had not won since 2006, Bagnaia followed Miller home to take the championship lead from Quartararo. Italian Franco Morbidelli was third on a Yamaha. Frenchman Quartararo finished 13th and doubled over, seemingly in pain, at the finish. Miller started and finished his immediate post-race interview in tears. "It`s a flood of emotions: happy sad, everything," he said.
"I thought when Fabio went past OK he`s got a bit better pace," Miller said. "I thought he was going to bolt. "I didn`t expect him to come back to me but he did. "He started to drop really off when I passed him. "There were still 12-13 laps left and I was thinking that`s a long time out in front by myself but I was able to do it." Bagnaia followed Miller home to give Ducati the first two places and take the championship lead. "I`m happy," he said. "This was a really tough track for us, so to finish one-two is a really big result for us."
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