Barcelona Moto3: Mir wins after two final-lap moves

Mir, who will step up to Moto2 with Marc VDS next year, started the final lap in third place, but two overtakes in the dying stages allowed him to cross the line in first ahead of Fenati.

Gresini's Martin, who dominated qualifying by six tenths, had a poor launch off the line, allowing Juanfran Guevara (RBA) to take the lead at the start.

Guevara was passed by Fenati (Marinelli Rivacold) a couple of corners later and the Spaniard was soon outside of the top 10.

With the order constantly changing along the main straight, Leopard rider Mir, Estrella Galicia's Aron Canet and the recovering Martin all spent a lap in first place in the next three laps.

The quartet, along with Gresini's Fabio di Giannantonio, formed a five-bike lead group, but were soon joined by Canet's teammate Enea Bastianini, Marcos Ramirez (Platinum Bay) and Tatsuki Suzuki (SIC58) as well.

With five laps to go, it was Fenati's turn to take the lead, but Mir and Martin both managed to slipstream past one lap later, the latter then taking the lead on the penultimate lap.

With Bastianini passing Mir for third at the back straight for third, Martin and Fenati pulled a short distance clear as the field tackled the main straight for the last time.

The duo continued to hold first and second until Mir forced his way past Fenati at Turn 10, and made an aggressive move on Martin three corners later at the right-hander before the final chicane.

Fenati also snuck past Martin at the chicane to secure second.

Bastianini and Canet took fourth and fifth ahead of Ramirez and Sky VR46 rider Andrea Migno, who gained several positions on the final lap.

Di Giannantonio had to settle for eighth, followed by Nicolo Bulega (Sky VR46) and Suzuki.

Race results

Cla	#	Rider	Bike	Time/Gap
1	36	Joan Mir	Honda	42'11.846
2	5	Romano Fenati	Honda	0.191
3	88	Jorge Martin	Honda	0.279
4	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	0.462
5	44	Aron Canet	Honda	0.674
6	42	Marcos Ramírez	KTM	0.740
7	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	1.143
8	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	1.389
9	8	Nicolo Bulega	KTM	1.662
10	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	1.863
11	23	Niccolo Antonelli	KTM	2.088
12	17	John McPhee	Honda	5.671
13	65	Philipp Ottl	KTM	8.631
14	12	Marco Bezzecchi	Mahindra	16.603
15	64	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	17.089
16	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	17.128
17	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	21.614
18	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	22.362
19	48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Mahindra	22.718
20	96	Manuel Pagliani	Mahindra	22.754
21	41	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	Honda	22.888
22	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Peugeot	23.376
23	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	24.243
24	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	33.334
25	11	Livio Loi	Honda	33.396
26	6	Maria Herrera	KTM	41.707
27	4	Patrik Pulkkinen	Peugeot	1'10.768
28	81	Alex Viu	KTM	1'33.544
	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	1 lap
	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	1 lap
	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	16 laps
	63	Vicente Perez	KTM	18 laps