MotoGP Portugal Portimao LIVE Race: Full box for Francesco Bagnaia, Johann Zarco 4th

It's the big day of the Portuguese Grand Prix this Sunday, a day which takes us back to the races of old after an unprecedented Saturday. Except that this race is able to present a first official classification of the 2023 World Championship, with Pecco Bagnaia in the lead thanks to his victory at the end of the very first Sprint event in the history of MotoGP. The Ducati official will therefore forever be the first in this circumstance. After 12 laps he was ahead of Jorge Martin and Marc Marquez. Brothers in arms that he will find on the first row of the starting grid on Sunday afternoon.

Marc Marquez qualified on pole for the first time since last year's Japanese Grand Prix, setting a new Portimao track record. This is the second time he has qualified on pole after going through Q1, since Thailand in 2018. It is his 64th MotoGP pole and his 92nd in what is his 233rd Grand Prix start. This is Honda's first pole position in the category at Portimao. He will aim to win his first Grand Prix since Emilia-Romagna 2021, 518 days ago…

Francis Bagnaia became the first Tissot Sprint winner in history and this Sunday he will aim to win a Grand Prix for the first time since Malaysia last year, which is also his most recent podium finish. With Francis Bagnaia et Jorge Martin, this is the 41st consecutive race where there is at least one driver Ducati in the top three in qualifying.

Miguel Oliveira qualified P4 after going through Q1 for what is his first Grand Prix with Aprilia. He equaled his second best qualifying result since Catalunya 2021 when he took victory. He will be aiming for a second Grand Prix victory on home soil after the 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix. He battled for the Sprint podium on Saturday before a mistake on the final lap.

Jack Miller could make MotoGP history by scoring Grand Prix victories with three different factories, having already won with Honda and Ducati. He finished P4 in the very first Sprint, 0,086s from the podium after leading for a short while.

Enea Bastianini qualified sixth, his first time qualifying in the top six since Malaysia last year when he qualified before finishing second, which is also his last podium finish. Unfortunately he fell after contact with Luca Marini during the first Sprint and he will be withdrawn due to injury.

Maverick Vinales qualified seventh. As Miller, Viñales could write MotoGP history by winning with three different factories, in his case adding the victory with Aprilia to victories with Suzuki and Yamaha.

Winner last year at the Portuguese Grand Prix, Fabio Quartararo qualified 11th, which is only the sixth time he has failed to qualify in the top 10 in MotoGP. The last time was in Malaysia last year, but he finished third, for his last podium to date. He will aim to win a Grand Prix for the first time since Germany last year. He scored no points in the Sprint, finishing P10 after early contact from Joan mir.

Aleix Espargaró fell in Q2 and qualified P12 for his worst qualifying result since qualifying 13th in Thailand last year. He finished P3 last year in Portugal for his fourth MotoGP podium in that time. It will be recalled that for this test, Pol Espargaro will be forfeited, as bastianini. Joan mir will have to go through a long time after having hooked fabio quartararo during the Sprint.

alex rins will have something to celebrate whatever happens this Sunday in the Algarve…

The presentations made, what will this Portuguese Grand Prix in Portimao have in store for us? Before finding out, here is the table which summarizes the facts known so far.

MotoGP™ Portimao	11-2021	2022	2023
P1	1'40.192 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'50.666 Marc Marquez (See here)	1'38.782 Alex Marquez (See here)
P2	1'39.390 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'50.707 Pol Espargaro (See here)	1'37.709 Jack Miller (See here)
FP	1'39.202 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'50.552 Miguel Oliveira (See here)	1'38.577 Marco Bezzecchi (See here)
FP4	1'39.665 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'50.750 Miguel Oliveira (See here)	XXXXXXXXXXXX
Q1	1'39.130 Johann Zarco (See here)	1'46.316 Alex Marquez (See here)	1'37.675 Marc Marquez (See here)
Q2	1'38.725 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'42.003 Johann Zarco (See here)	1'37.226 Marc Marquez (See here)
Sprint	XXX	XXX	Bagnaia, Martin, M. Marquez (See here)
Warm Up	1'39.711 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'40.278 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'38.719 Alex Marquez (See here)
Course	Bagnaia, Mir, Miller (See here)	Quartararo, Zarco, A. Espargaro (See here)	(See here)
All time lap record	1'38.725 Francesco Bagnaia 2021 (See here)		1'37.226 Marc Marquez (See here)

In the meantime, here are the live images…

To your predictions! Now!

The youngest will always remember such an encounter…MM93

The tension rises in light of this new season!

And 2 for Bagnaia this Portuguese weekend?

Reminder of the forces present!

The VR46 is ready to go into battle for a place/places on the podium! Go!

Let's go for the warm-up lap!

They set off and MM93 takes the lead: Oliveira takes the lead ahead of Martin and Bagnaia

MM93 jostles and hits Martin, fortunately without consequences... the Honda driver seems to be in distress...

After 1 lap, the positions are as follows: Oliveira ahead of Bagnaia, Martin, MM93 and Vinales

Bagnaia returns to the head of operations passing Oliveira, double fall MM93 hits Oliveira, big mistake from the Spaniard

Quartararo is 13th, Zarco is 7th

Oliveira...struggling

Mir performs his long lap

After 3 all the top10 is as follows: Bagnaia, Vinales, Miller, Bezzecchi, Marquez, Binder, Zarco, Marini, Rins and Espargaro

Bezzecchi's attack on Miller, it passes, he is now 3rd.

Vinales is in contact with Bagnaia...he is pressing on the Italian to gain 1st position

Behind, Bezzecchi, Marquez, Miller, Binder, Zarco, Marini, Espargaro and Rins bring up the rear of the top10. Quartararo is 11th

Di Giannantonio returns to the box

There are 15 laps left and Bagnaia is holding on: Vinales remains discreet behind the Italian for the moment he seems to be waiting for his time

Marquez, 3rd is under pressure from Miller, an upcoming attack is coming on the younger Marquez

THE. top5 is as follows: Bagnaia, Vinales, Bezzecchi, Marquez and Miller 

The KTM 5 and 6

MM93 comes to apologize in Oliveira's box

The gap is gradually widening between Bagnaia and Vinales: 0.879s

There are 10 laps left and the 10 fastest drivers at the moment are: Bagnaia, Vinales, Bezzecchi, Marquez, Miller, Binder, Zarco, Espargaro, Marini and Quartararo

Miller presses on 0.314s behind Marquez to gain 4th position: Espargaro does the same on Zarco to gain 7th position

The gap between Bagnaia and Vinales is narrowing, the Spaniard is 0.620 behind the race leader

Miller attacks Marquez and he passes, he is 5th, but Marquez fights, the Spanish driver passes again. But that's without counting on Binder who retaliates!

Quartararo passes Marini, he is now 9th

Martin crashes in turn 10

With 5 all to go, the top5 is as follows: Bagnaia, Vinales, Bezzechi, Binder and Marquez

Bagnaia widens the gap with 1.2s ahead of Vinales who cannot keep up with the pace

Marini Falls

It's a battle at the back: Marquez has passed Binder again, he is 4th again, Espargaro, tough as hell, fought to get the better of Zarco, he is classified 8th: Zarco responds and Espargaro drops back to 9th, which benefits in Quartararo 8th.

Zarco passes Marquez, he is 4th

End of race: Victory for Bagnaia ahead of Vinales, Bezzechi, Zarco, Marquez, Binder, Miller, Quartararo, Espargaro and Rins

Performance of Zarco, 4th

        MotoGP Portugal Portimao Race: classification

 

Credit classification motogp.com