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SAARBRUCKEN, Nov 7 (AFP):Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia won a red-flagged Algarve MotoGP on Sunday as newly-crowned world champion Fabio Quartararo failed to finish after falling off his Yamaha.<\/p>\n
Italy’s Bagnaia, who had started on pole position for a fifth consecutive race, finished ahead of 2020 world champion Joan Mir of Suzuki and Australia’s Jack Miller, also on a Ducati.<\/p>\n
Starting from a lowly seventh on the grid, Quartararo fell five laps from the end of the race on the same circuit where he had won the Portuguese MotoGP in April.<\/p>\n
In a dramatic race, Bagnaia claimed his third win of the season, handing Ducati the constructors title.<\/p>\n
The race ended prematurely under red flags, however, after Iker Lecuona and Miguel Oliveira, both on KTM bikes, crashed two laps from home.<\/p>\n
Both riders were conscious although Oliveira required a check-up at the circuit medical centre.<\/p>\n
With just one race left this season in Valencia next weekend, Bagnaia and Mir are guaranteed to finish second and third in the championship.<\/p>\n
In front of a crowd of around 28,000 spectators, seven-time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi finished in 13th place in the penultimate race of his career.<\/p>\n
The 42-year-old will ride off into retirement next week.<\/p>\n
Spanish rider Pedro Acosta won the Moto3 world title at the age of 17 on Sunday, marking himself out as a name to watch after triumphing in the Algarve race.<\/p>\n
Acosta won six of 17 races in a spectacular debut season at this level and took the flag in Portugal after the fall of Italian rider Dennis Foggia, the only rival who had a chance of beating him to the title.<\/p>\n
At 17 days and 166 days, KTM rider Acosta becomes the second youngest world champion in any Moto category behind only Loris Capirossi of Italy, who keeps his record by a single day.<\/p>\n
Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez — himself the youngest ever MotoGP champion when he won his first aged 20 — has already earmarked his fellow Spaniard for greatness.<\/p>\n
“He will soon move up to MotoGP and when he does, if he continues like this, he will make things very difficult,” Marquez predicted at the start of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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