Jorge Martin extended his lead atop the Moto3 World Championship standings as he teammate Fabio Di Giannantonio won the inaugural Thai Moto3, while Martin’s main title rival Marco Bezzecchi was taken out in the final corner.

Starting from the pole position and Martin starting down in thirteenth, Bezzecchi came into the race hoping to close the gap at the top of the World Championship down and in the early stages of the of the race it appeared he may well do that.

Clearly still struggling with the nerve issue in his wrist, Martin found himself as low as eighteenth at one point all the while the Italian was battling at the front along with the likes of Di Giannantonio, Lorenzo Dalla Porta and Dennis Foggia.

However, as the race went on, Martin found a way to manage the pain and starting working his way through the field whilst other riders fell off Martin continued to progress.

Coming into the final lap, Bezzecchi was leading the race and Martin found himself down in ninth place. Di Giannantonio took the lead from Bezzecchi going into turn three on the final lap. Dalla Porta soon followed his compatriot through. Going into the final corner Bezzecchi was in third and closing the title lead.

Enea Bastianini was the man who lunged under Bezzecchi going into the final corner. However, ‘the Beast’ lost the front end of his Leopard bike and subsequently took out Bezzecchi.

Di Giannantonio held off the late challenge from Dalla Porta for his second career win. Foggia benefitted from Bastianini’s mistake to take third whilst Martin claimed thirteen valuable points in fourth to extend his lead to 28 points.

As well as losing 13 more points to Martin, Bezzecchi now finds himself just one point ahead of race winner Di Giannantonio with the top three now separated by thirty points.

Gabi Rodrigo was fifth and just ahead of the impressive Vicente Perez in sixth. Nico Bulega was seventh, with Marcos Ramirez, Somkiat Chantra and Jakub Kornfiel rounding out the top ten.

Andrea Migno was eleventh on his KTM, and just two tenths clear of Kaito Toba Phillip Oettl was thirteenth whilst Tony Arbolino and Adam Norrodin rounded out the point scorers in fourteenth and fifteenth respectively.