Aleix Espargaro led a historic Aprilia 1-2 at the MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix after the race was red-flagged for a crash which has hospitalised championship leader Francesco Bagnaia.
But this lasted all of three corners, as Maverick Vinales carved into the lead on his factory Aprilia, with team-matemade it an Aprilia 1-2-3 on lap four when he moved through on Martin, though the factory duo had already started to build up a gap.
The pair ran line astern, but on lap 11 the gap suddenly jumped up between them to 1.3s as Espargaro seemingly made an error somewhere off-screen.As they started lap 19, Espargaro was just 0.2s adrift and took the lead into Turn 1 next time around, drawing alongside his team-mate down the straight before outbraking him.
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