Bagnaia had a good start off the line and was joined by Marquez in second as the duo quickly pulled away from third-placed Marcel Schrotter.

The gap between Bagnaia and Marquez remained around half a second for the majority of the 25-lap race.

However, Marquez lost a lot of pace during the final couple of laps, and eventually finished second, 2.7s behind Bagnaia.

Marquez's teammate Joan Mir passed Schrotter to take third on Lap 15 but, by the time he made the move, he was already five seconds behind the top two.

He was generally able to match the pace of the leaders and made up a lot of ground on Marquez late on but he stayed in third to celebrate his maiden Moto2 podium.

Schrotter took fourth, his career-best result in Moto2, followed by teammate Xavi Vierge, who completed an impressive recovery from last on the grid.

The Spaniard was set to start the race from second but his bike was pulled into the pits with a fuel pump problem and was relegated to the back of the grid.

He gained 25 positions to run 10th by Lap 7 and quickly made up three more places to spend the second half of the race closing on and passing Miguel Oliveira and Romano Fenati.

Oliveira and Fenati took sixth and seventh respectively with rookie Fabio Quartararo scoring his best result of the season in eighth.

Brad Binder (KTM Ajo) and Stefano Manzi (Forward) completed the top 10.

Isaac Vinales, Eric Granado, Iker Lecuona, Jorge Navarro, Mattia Pasini, Lorenzo Baldassarri, Federico Fuligni, Hector Garzo, Tetsuta Nagashima and Joe Roberts all crashed.

Race results:

Pos.	#	Rider	Bike	Time
1	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	40'40.162
2	73	Alex Marquez	Kalex	40'42.871
3	36	Joan Mir	Kalex	40'45.027
4	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	40'47.203
5	97	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	40'49.973
6	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	40'50.105
7	13	Romano Fenati	Kalex	40'52.455
8	20	Fabio Quartararo	Speed Up	40'54.747
9	41	Brad Binder	KTM	40'55.591
10	62	Stefano Manzi	Suter	40'57.390
11	40	Hector Barbera	Kalex	40'58.971
12	5	Andrea Locatelli	Kalex	40'59.703
13	22	Sam Lowes	KTM	41'01.274
14	24	Simone Corsi	Kalex	41'03.672
15	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Kalex	41'06.158
16	64	Bo Bendsneyder	Tech 3	41'09.429
17	4	Steven Odendaal	NTS	41'12.655
18	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	41'24.168
19	16	Joe Roberts	NTS	41'25.771
20	95	Jules Danilo	Kalex	41'26.002
21	52	Danny Kent	Speed Up	41'26.214
22	66	Niki Tuuli	Kalex	41'28.533
23	3	Lukas Tulovic	KTM	41'34.466
24	19	Corentin Perolari	Transformiers	41'37.640
25	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	41'47.874
26	18	Xavi Cardelus	Kalex	42'01.918
27	80	Cedric Tangre	Tech 3	42'16.704
Ret	21	Federico Fuligni	Kalex	-
Ret	14	Hector Garzo	Tech 3	-
Ret	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	-
Ret	27	Iker Lecuona	KTM	-
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Kalex	-
Ret	51	Eric Granado	Suter	-
Ret	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	-
Ret	32	Isaac Viñales	Kalex	-