Reigning champion Joan Mir and six-time premier-class title holder Marc Marquez had rarely met on track since Mir's MotoGP debut in 2019. But the pair got a little too close for comfort on Marquez's return to race action at Portimao on Sunday. Mir had shrugged-off the Repsol Honda rider shadowing his Suzuki (to the fastest lap time) throughout Qualifying 1, but was taking no prisoners as he urgently sliced through from ninth on the opening lap of the race. The GSX-RR rider made his sixth pass of the lap when he ambushed Marquez with a late inside lunge at Turn 11, some light contact forcing the Honda rider to lift his machine. It was the kind of 'out-of-my' move a fully fit Marquez would...
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