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Raul Fernandez soars to Dutch Grand Prix sprint victory as Trackhouse dominate

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Trackhouse rider Raul Fernandez produced ⁠a dominant display to win Saturday’s sprint at the ‌Dutch Grand Prix, overtaking pole-sitter Jorge ‌Martin in the opening ‌laps to claim his second ‌sprint victory of the season. ‌The contest also marked the first sprint run under MotoGP’s ‌new rules banning front ⁠start devices.

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/martin-jorge/zBBka6dR/"]Martin[/a] ‌launched well from pole to lead ​early on, but was quickly passed by [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/fernandez-raul/dIyisVJD/"]Fernandez[/a], ​along with VR46’s [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/di-giannantonio-fabio/pI4o388M/"]Fabio Di Giannantonio[/a] and Brno pole ⁠sitter [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/ogura-ai/A3AtM47b/"]Ai ​Ogura[/a]. The Spaniard was then drawn into a scrap with teammate [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/bezzecchi-marco/EXzAZEse/"]Marco Bezzecchi[/a] for ‌fourth place.[/p][p]Ogura underlined Trackhouse’s strong pace by finishing second, 0.362 seconds behind Fernandez, sealing the team’s first-ever sprint 1-2. Di Giannantonio completed the podium in third, followed by Bezzecchi, who had dominated Friday’s ‌sessions, while Martin faded to ​fifth.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/marquez-marc/UPhfij2b/"]Marc Marquez[/a] finished sixth, ‌just ahead of teammate [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/bagnaia-francesco/nahP9n9q/"]Francesco Bagnaia[/a], who was penalised a position for touching the green in the final ⁠lap.[/p][embed guid="809b53b4-41f3-45f5-9d42-852e15d3dde8" url="https://x.com/MotoGP/status/2070864352387776610" social-type="twitter" /]

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