Francesco Bagnaia leads Jorge Martin, Marc Marquez, 2024 MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Francesco Bagnaia leads Jorge Martin, Marc Marquez, 2024 MotoGP Austrian…
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Austrian MotoGP at the Red Bull Ring as it happened

Recap the Austrian MotoGP race at the Red Bull Ring.

18 Aug 2024
13:11
Lap 6/28

Martin pushes, his 1:29.6 is the fastest lap of the race. Bagnaia continues to lead, though.

13:10
Lap 5/28

Bagnaia continues to lead, but there's not much separation still among the front three. Marquez is up to 10th now.

13:09
Lap 4/28

Bagnaia drops his pace to a 1:29.7, Martin more or less matches that. Bastianini remains in touch.

13:08
Pace control

If you want an idea of how the pace is being controlled, Bagnaia just did a 1:29.900 on lap two, which is about a second off the best lap of the Sprint, and it was beaten by Marco Bezzecchi in 8th.

13:07
Lap 3/14

Bagnaia still leads from Martin and Bastianini, who is keeping touch with the top two. Small gap then to Miller in foruth, with Binder just behind in fifth.

13:05
Lap 2/14

Bagnaia leads lap two, as replays show Marquez didn't get his holeshot device engaged for the start.

13:04
Bagnaia leads

Bagnaia takes the lead at turn one, and the top two are already threatening to begin braking away.

13:04
Lap 1/14

Martin leads the first lap from Bagnaia, and Enea Bastianini is third after a strong start.

13:03
Marquez start

Awful start for Marquez, he made contact with Morbidelli in braking for turn one and went straight. He's 14th.

13:02
Lights out

It's lights out in Spielberg and it's Jorge Martin who makes the holeshot from pole position. Marc Marquez drops to fourth, Miller up to third.

13:00
Warm-up lap

The warm-up lap is underway in Austria. We aren't far away from the start now. 

 

In terms of tyres, everyone is on medium front/medium rear, so nothing to separate anyone in terms of compounds.

12:58
More weather

Although it's dry now, there is some rain reportedly scheduled for around 30-40 minutes time, which would make a finish quite similar to what we had in 2021.

12:55
KTM's home race

It's not been a great weekend for KTM at its home GP, but with Jack Miller starting from the second row the Austrian brand has a chance of a decent result. Look for Brad Binder cutting his way though, too - yesterday he went from 12th on the grid to seventh and in the battle for fourth by the end.

12:54
Bagnaia the favourite

With just over 10 minutes to go until the start, it's Pecco Bagnaia who goes into the Austrian GP as the favourite, having won each of his last four starts at the Red Bull Ring. Jorge Martin, though, showed yesterday before his penalty that he has the speed to go with Bagnaia. Marc Marquez, too, was competitive before his crash, and look for him to get stronger as the race goes on.

12:37
Sighting lap

The riders are off now on their sighting lap. As with yesterday, they're all going as slowly as possible to use as little fuel as possible before the race, as the teams can't refuel the bikes on the grid and and Austria is one of the toughest circuits for fuel consumption.

12:33
Weather

We're around half-an-hour away from the beginning of the race now, and the weather is looking fairly good, if a little windy. Track temperatures are down on where they've been so far this weekend, which will change things grip-wise, but should also help with the front tyre pressure concerns that were raised after yesterday's Sprint.

12:24

Hello and welcome to the Red Bull Ring for live coverage of the MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix, which is scheduled to get underway at 14:00 local time, so in just over 35 minutes.

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