Leading the field away from pole, Jorge Mar෴tin made a great start as he led into turn one.

But it was the factory KTM duo who made the best starts as Brad Binder moved up from fourth to second, while Jack Miller🌠 came from the fourth row to go seventh, ahead of a battling Marc Marquez and Fabio Di Giannantonio.

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Marc Marquez finally w🌳on the battle with Fabio Di Giannantonio and Jack Miller on lap two as he closed back in on the factory duo of Francesco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini.

The fastest rider on circuit, Marquez was looking ominous as Bagnaia moved up to third with a move o༺n Aleix Espargaro at turn one.

A le🦂aܫding group of six, Martin was still the leader from Binder as they began lap five of 11.

Not in the l🐓ead battle, unlike four months ago when he won the Qat🐟ar MotoGP, Di Giannantonio crashed out of seventh on lap four. 

A mistake at the end of lap five saw Bastianini give up P5 to Marquez, who 🔯was still quicker than the riders ahead of him.

While P5 was giv𓃲en to him due to a mista𒅌ke, Marquez took P4 away from Espargaro one lap later with a stunning move on the brakes at turn one.

In the 🔯process Marquez nearly lost the front but the eight-time world champion managed to remain aboard his Gresini machine.

Lining up a move on Bagnaia for third, Marquez made a mistake on lap eight which allowed Espargaro to re♊gain P4. 

Fastest of the lead quartet, Espargaro then att🧜acked Bagnaia on the penultimate lap but ran wide in the process.

Espargaro was not to be denied thꦺough as he came back through on Bagnaia at the end of the lap.