Aragon Moto2: Binder wins as Bagnaia extends lead

At the start, Binder led from pole but ran wide at Turn 16 at the end of the second lap, and surrendered first place to Alex Marquez.

But Marquez was never able to pull away from Binder, and the duo was eventually joined by Bagnaia and then Pons rider Lorenzo Baldassarri.

Binder started to put increasing pressure on Marquez but, after two unsuccessful attempts, he came close to crashing with Bagnaia as he ran wide at T16 again and the duo made contact on corner exit.

Soon afterwards, Binder finally passed Marquez at Turn 12, and then quickly built a lead of a second.

Bagnaia gave up third to Baldassarri after his near-crash, and the latter even challenged Marquez for second until he ran wide at Turn 3 and dropped back to fourth.

The championship leader then passed Marquez at Turn 1 and finished second, 1.5s behind the victorious Binder.

Baldassarri also outduelled Marquez, the duo trading places three times in a single lap, for the final spot on the podium.

Marcel Schrotter (Intact GP) finished fifth ahead of MotoGP-bound riders Joan Mir (Marc VDS) and Miguel Oliveira (Ajo KTM).

Having started 18th, Oliveira spent several laps in 10th behind Simone Corsi in the early stages, and eventually finished five positions behind his title rival Bagnaia, the gap between the duo increasing to 19 points.

Mattia Pasini (Italtrans) was eighth ahead of Speed Up's Fabio Quartararo and Gresini's Jorge Navarro.

Xavi Vierge was outside of the top 10 when he crashed at Turn 5, with Danny Kent and Stefano Manzi also falling during the race.

Sam Lowes ran off-track while in 20th place, and only recovered to the very same position by the finish.

Race results:

Pos.	#	Rider	Bike	Time/Gap
1	41	Brad Binder	KTM	39'59.247
2	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1.526
3	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	2.055
4	73	Alex Marquez	Kalex	2.396
5	23	Marcel Schrotter	Kalex	5.850
6	36	Joan Mir	Kalex	6.205
7	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	6.741
8	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	9.650
9	20	Fabio Quartararo	Speed Up	9.746
10	9	Jorge Navarro	Kalex	9.848
11	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	11.568
12	24	Simone Corsi	Kalex	13.786
13	40	Augusto Fernandez	Kalex	17.856
14	27	Iker Lecuona	KTM	19.232
15	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	21.258
16	5	Andrea Locatelli	Kalex	21.393
17	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	26.553
18	4	Steven Odendaal	NTS	27.747
19	87	Remy Gardner	Tech 3	28.339
20	22	Sam Lowes	KTM	31.826
21	77	Dominique Aegerter	KTM	32.214
22	66	Niki Tuuli	Kalex	34.961
23	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	36.569
24	16	Joe Roberts	NTS	37.143
25	64	Bo Bendsneyder	Tech 3	42.222
26	95	Jules Danilo	Kalex	53.557
27	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Kalex	53.675
28	18	Xavi Cardelus	Kalex	1'14.999
Ret	97	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	7 Laps
Ret	21	Federico Fuligni	Kalex	7 Laps
Ret	52	Danny Kent	Speed Up	18 Laps
Ret	12	Sheridan Morais	Kalex	18 Laps
Ret	62	Stefano Manzi	Suter	20 Laps