Pecco Bagnaia started from pole position in the Assen 2024 MotoGP Race Lap which was attended by 108,770 spectators on race day itself. Meanwhile, Jorge Martin had to withdraw from starting from 6th position or exactly 1 position ahead of Marc Marquez after receiving a sanction for disturbing other racers in the qualifying session. Aleix Espargaro did not appear in this race because he preferred to recover after his crash which occurred several times from Friday-Saturday. The track surface temperature is 40° C with the use of tires varying between Hard-Medium, Soft-Medium to Hard-Soft combinations. The start was fast by Pecco Bagnaia who took the lead after the first corner followed by Vinales and Martin. . Marc is already in 4th position. . Rins crashes at the first corner
Lap 2 Pecco Leads 0.6 seconds from Martin followed by Vinales and Marc. . . Acosta moved up to 5th position after passing Alex Marquez
Lap 3 Pecco Leads 0.9 seconds from Martin. . Luca Marini Signs Gravel
Lap 4 Martin in second place was 0.8 seconds behind Pecco. Marc is in third place. Bezzecchi Crash
Lap 5 Martin gets closer to Pecco. Marc Gets Track Limit Warning.
Lap 6 Pecco is back 1 second ahead of Martin. . Vinales’ Digia Overtake rose to P4
Lap 7 Joan Mir Crash. Pecco Still 1 second ahead of Martin.
Lap 8 Pecco leads 0.98 seconds from Martin.
Lap 9 Digia Overtakes Marc Marquez and climbs to P3. . after Marc gave the code to Digia to move up the position. . It is estimated that this is a matter of tire temperature
Lap 10 Pecco Leads 0.98 seconds from Martin
Lap 11 Pecco 1 Second from Martin
Lap 12 Pecco 1.1 seconds ahead of Martin followed by Digia, Marc, Vinales and Acosta
Lap 13 Marc Marquez continues to maintain a distance of 0.2 seconds behind Digia
Lap 14 Pecco led by 1.3 seconds from Martin
Lap 15 Pecco was 1.5 seconds away from Martin
Lap 16 Martin in P2 was 1.7 seconds away from Pecco who was leading. . while Digia in P3 is 4 seconds away from Martin
Lap 17 Still Pecco, Martin and Digia in the Top 3 temporarily
Lap 18 Acosta Started close to Bastianini and finally Bestia managed to climb to P5 in the second sector
Lap 19 Pecco leads 1.7 seconds ahead of Martin
Lap 20 Bagnaia Mmeimpi in front of Martin and Vinales.
Lap 21 Bagnaia 1.9 seconds ahead. . Bastianini Overtakes Marc up to p4
Lap 22 Pecco led by 1.6 seconds from Martin. . Vinales and Bastianini fight for P3
Lap 23 Pecco Leads 2 seconds from Martin
Lap 24 Top 3 Pecco, Martin, & Bastianini
Lap 25 Pecco was 2.7 seconds ahead of Martin. . Marc Closer to Vinales
Lap 26 Pecco 3 seconds leads the race. . . Acosta Crash
And after 26 laps, Pecco Bagnaia was perfect and untouchable and emerged as the winner of the 2024 Dutch Assen MotoGP race and was entitled to 25 points added to the championship standings. Martin P2, Bastianini P3 . . Desmosedici GP24 clean sweep dominates the podium.
Update: Marc Marquez was found to have tire pressure below the standard, more than the maximum lap in the regulations, so he was given an additional time penalty of 16 seconds, making Marc drop to 10th position.
