Alex Rins is the winner of the Valencia Grand Prix, giving Suzuki one last MotoGP victory before retiring from the World Championship. The Spaniard was joined on the podium by Brad Binder and Jorge Martin, who started the race from the first place, but after the end of the race, Francesco Bagnaia grabbed all the attention, who drove a very restrained race and finished in ninth place. which was enough to secure the 2022 MotoGP world title. His only rival for the title, Fabio Quartararo, finished the race in fourth place.
Alex Rins took the race lead into the first corner, followed by Martin, Miller and Marquez. While Marquez overtook Miller, Fabio Quartararo and Francesco Bagnaia engaged in a tense duel for fifth and sixth.
With 24 laps to go, Quartararo overtook Bagnaio and set out to chase the leading group, which escaped the pair by 1.6 seconds.
On lap 9, Brad Binder passed Bagnaio to take sixth, meanwhile Quartararo cut the gap to the leading group to 1.2 seconds, with Alex Rins still in the lead ahead of Martin, Miller and Marquez.
In the 10th lap, Marquez ended the race by falling from fourth place, and with the Spaniard's bad luck, Quartararo advanced, who should have won the race, and Bagnaia should not have won more than one point if he wanted to defend the title of world champion.
14 laps before the end of the race, Joan Mir found a way past the championship leader, and the Ducati rider was already under pressure from Miguel Oliveira, Luca Marini and Enea Bastianini.
With 11 laps to go, Bagnaio overtook Oliveira to push him into seventh place, while Quartararo closed the gap on the leading group to half a second, only to be overtaken by Binder at the start of the next lap.
With 9 laps to go, Luca Marini, a racer from the VR46 team, overtook the clearly restrained Bagnaio, and Enea Bastianini three laps later.
With 5 laps to go, Miller was overtaken by Binder, putting the KTM rider on the podium, but the Australian slipped a few corners later and retired with a fall.
With two laps to go, Binder moved into second place, at this point 0.7 seconds behind the leader Rins, but the KTM rider only managed to close the gap to Rins by the finish line, but had no opportunity to attack. Behind, Morbidelli unsuccessfully attacked Bagnaio for eighth place and in the end had to settle for ninth place.
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