In a strategic 26-lap grand prix the place tyre preservation was essential, Martin, Binder and Bagnaia engaged in a tense cube over the ultimate laps for victory.
Having briefly misplaced the lead on lap 23, Martin got here again via once more on Binder on the penultimate tour and held agency on the ultimate lap to attain his fourth grand prix victory of the season.
Binder needed to give up second after exceeding monitor limits on the ultimate lap, demoting him a spot behind Bagnaia – gifting the manufacturing facility Ducati rider an vital 4 factors.
Heading into the ultimate three rounds, Martin now trails Bagnaia by simply 13 factors having already lower his result in 18 with victory within the dash on Saturday in Thailand.
Marco Bezzecchi stays simply in contact within the championship chase, 79 factors adrift, after ending fourth on his VR46 Ducati forward of Aleix Espargaro on the manufacturing facility Aprilia.
In a carbon copy of the beginning within the dash, Martin didn’t get off the road as sturdy from pole as second-placed Luca Marini on the VR46 Ducati.
However Martin was capable of outbrake Marini into Flip 1 to carry the lead as Espargaro and Bagnaia slotted in behind.
Espargaro moved into second forward of Marini at Flip 4 on the opening lap, whereas Binder took fourth from Bagnaia at Flip 9.
This pressured Bagnaia to test up, dropping him behind Gresini Ducati’s Alex Marquez – who was the one rider on the contra-strategy with the rear tyre, choosing the medium over the onerous.
Bagnaia took fifth again from Marquez on lap two briefly, solely to be handed once more as Martin held a secure three-tenth lead over Espargaro, holding the tempo sluggish to protect his rubber.
Binder took third from Marini on lap three as Bagnaia got here beneath hearth from Honda’s Marc Marquez, the pair partaking in a pleasant duel for sixth throughout laps 4 and 5.
Bagnaia would in the end get the higher hand on Marquez on lap 5, whereas Binder moved as much as second forward of Espargaro the tour earlier than.
With the tempo being as regular because it was, the highest 18 on lap seven have been lined by simply 5 seconds.
By lap 10, Bagnaia had labored his means as much as fourth forward of Marini, who slipped behind Alex Marquez on the fifth tour.
A crash for Alex Marquez on lap 13 at Flip 10 cleared the way in which for Bagnaia to maneuver as much as third as the highest three pulled eight tenths away from the pack behind.
It wouldn’t be till lap 20 that the battle on the entrance kicked into its subsequent section, with Binder launching his first raid on the lead at Turns 8 and 9 on Martin.
Martin received out on this melee and did so once more at Flip 3 on the following tour after Binder ran huge, which additionally pressured Bagnaia to test up in third to keep away from contact with the KTM.
Binder made a transfer stick on Martin on lap 23 at Flip 8, however the Pramac rider didn’t relent and retook the lead two excursions later at Flip 3 after the KTM man ran huge.
Bagnaia tried a daring raid across the outdoors of the pair of them on the brakes into the ultimate nook, however couldn’t pull it off, remaining third.
Martin didn’t enable Binder one other probability to come back via on the ultimate lap and took the chequered flag to finish the double in Thailand.
On the ultimate lap, Binder ran onto the inexperienced run-off space on the exit of Flip 5, which copped him a one-place penalty on the chequered flag, selling Bagnaia to second.
With 0.253s protecting the highest three, it marks the fourth-closest podium in premier class historical past.
After a cube along with his VR46 team-mate, Bezzecchi took fourth from Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro and the Yamaha of Fabio Quartararo.
Marc Marquez was seventh ultimately as Marini light to eighth, with Fabio Di Giannantonio (Gresini) and Pramac’s Johann Zarco rounding out the highest 10.
Franco Morbidelli was eleventh on the second Yamaha from Joan Mir on the Honda, Ducati’s Enea Bastianini, LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami and Raul Fernandez (RNF).
Technical points pressured Aprilia duo Maverick Vinales and Miguel Oliveira (RNF) to retire.
