Jorge Martín won the Portuguese MotoGP Grand Prix and, for the first time in his career, finished a round leading the championship. The most that had happened before was being at the top between the Sprint race and the main race.
This situation happened twice: first at last year’s Indonesian GP, and then at this year’s Qatar GP. Now, the Prima Pramac Spaniard left the Portuguese GP leading the World Championship. He has 60 points, 18 more than Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM). In third place is Enea Bastianini (Ducati) 21 points behind.
Right behind, one point behind the Italian, is his teammate Francesco Bagnaia – who suffered his first retirement of the season in the main race in Portimão and thus dropped from the lead he held before the GP to fourth place. After his first podium, Pedro Acosta (Red Bull GasGas Tech3/KTM) climbed to fifth place.
As for Miguel Oliveira (Trackhouse Racing/Aprilia), thanks to his ninth place in Algarve he was able to place himself in 14th in the championship. He has one more point than Joan Mir, who is the best of the Honda riders. The first of the Japanese constructors is Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha), in 11th.
