00:00It's lights out and we're racing in by the GP here in Spielberg.
00:05Bit of wheel there as the world champion.
00:07Mark Marquez fires the factory in a catty way from the front row of the grid.
00:09Perfect start by the Aprilias.
00:11Martin's got the whole shot, he'll lead the field out of the first corner.
00:15Betsecki was briefly on the green but Betsecki got a great start.
00:18Off from the second row into second and now comes Agoura.
00:21Mark Marquez getting picked off here from second on the grid.
00:24The world champion straight away back into fourth and Aprilia, one, two, three.
00:29The Aprilia straight on the offensive.
00:31I do wonder whether Marco Betsecki might be asked to drop a place though,
00:34having gone wide through the first corner.
00:36Not the start, Pedro Costa was hoping for either.
00:38Immediately passed by Agoura's Aprilia and he's down to fifth.
00:44Betsecki looking red hot in his early stage of the Grand Prix.
00:47He's been so good on the opening laps before and he's already having a crack.
00:50And his teammate Jorge Martin, 72 versus 89.
00:53And Marco Betsecki leads the Austrian Grand Prix.
00:57So the Aprilia's are battling each other again.
00:59Martin on the inside this time and he regains the lead.
01:06Oh, look at Acosta on the inside now of Agoura for third place into turn six.
01:11Pedro looking straight and get himself into the heat of this Aprilia action.
01:19Look how good Acosta is in the hard braking zones, in the heavy braking zones.
01:22Here we go.
01:23Perfect time to ride on ball with him.
01:25As good as Betsecki was coming out of turn ten.
01:28We know that the KTM is so, so stable on the brakes.
01:32Acosta is brilliant.
01:33He's unrivaled on that KTM machine in terms of braking zones.
01:37He's got this knack.
01:38It's one of his trade secrets.
01:39He's able to stop the KTM in a shorter space than any other rider on the RC16.
01:45He's through on Betse.
01:46Next up, Martin.
01:48This was one of the closest moments in the Grand Prix.
01:52Acosta knew there that there was a potential as Martin stuck to his normal racing line on the outside of
01:58turn five,
01:58that maybe some contact was coming.
02:03Oh!
02:04Well, on the exit of one, Martin looked for himself.
02:07He could have sensed he'd have felt the wind draft from the KTM as he went side by side.
02:11First time there here in the Grand Prix of Austria, in KTM's backyard,
02:16in KTM's home Grand Prix, just as he did in the sprint yesterday.
02:20Pedro Acosta leads.
02:22Here was that moment.
02:23And it could potentially be one of the biggest moments of Pedro Acosta's Grand Prix career so far.
02:32Marc Marquez made a complete mess of the first corner,
02:36and all of that hard work he had done to pass Ayagura has just been undone.
02:41Yeah, he got that horribly wrong, Vinnie Marc.
02:43He was in the long lap loop there.
02:45Let's just track further back then, the world champion, all sideways.
02:49I mean, he, his dirt track style.
02:52He's just turned that Ducati into a 300 horsepower supermoto bike there, hasn't he?
02:56The reigning world champion.
02:58The 93 fans.
03:00Binder's passed him now.
03:01What's going on here then? Marc Marquez.
03:03I mean, Marc never gets rattled, but has he just disturbed his rhythm?
03:07That mistake he made at the first corner.
03:09Firmin Aldeguer has jumped all over his rear tire.
03:12Aldeguer's got a run on him.
03:13Out of the chicane.
03:14That Ducati.
03:14Marc Marquez just has no stability by the looks of it.
03:17Under braking.
03:17He was then slowed through turn one, and Aldeguer passing him with ease.
03:22There they are.
03:22There's three of them together at the back of the picture.
03:24Aldeguer Binder and Marc Marquez, who is still stuck in seventh.
03:28He's now in the process of changing that as he launches one on the inside of Brad Binder,
03:32who almost literally had to jump out of the world champion's way.
03:37This fight last year between Aldeguer and Marc Marquez was for the win.
03:41Down the hill, Aldeguer and Marc go there.
03:44We've seen this before on the previous lap.
03:47This time around, Marc does seize the inside line.
03:50He will have the advantage.
03:51He'll cut to the curve on the inside.
03:53He had track position there, didn't he, on the inside did Marc.
03:57So now, once again, he wrestles back fifth place and picks up one point back in the title chase.
04:06And he's going to turn him into a MotoGP race winner for the first time,
04:10because there's one corner left.
04:13KTM are in dreamland.
04:14KTM conquer Spielberg.
04:17And Pedro Acosta is a first time race winner in MotoGP.
04:23He has finally, finally done it.
04:26In Grand Prix start 56 in the premier class.
04:32He's gone down again.
04:33Pedro Acosta gets even today.
04:35Haha, brilliant.
04:36He is such a great, great character, isn't he?
04:40And he's actually taking the mickey out of himself here, isn't he?
04:43He knows that he should have won the sprint yesterday.
04:45This should have been a double.
04:49As he says, push me please.
04:51Well, he pushed himself to the absolute limit.
04:55And he has finally done it.
04:58Well, I never ever thought when he exploded onto the MotoGP scene as a rookie, a hot rookie back in
05:052024,
05:06we'd have to wait this long to utter these words that Pedro Acosta will never, ever tire of.
05:14Because finally, at the age of 22, the shark shines.
05:19Pedro Acosta heads to Japan as a MotoGP winner.
05:23It is worth the wait for Pedro Acosta.
05:26The wait ends today.
05:28The shark is finally a MotoGP winner.
05:31Yeah.
05:45Mmmm!
05:55That's awesomeγ
05:55Welcome back.
05:55Ahj chip.
05:55ISIL and you set music on the ground with...
05:55...and there's luck stuff and my mother just getting chided.
06:01Ordinator if you gets aya?
06:01Well, that's awesome.
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