Pedro Acosta leads the Spanish Moto2 triplet
Moreira wins in Moto3 and Jaume Masià defends his position as leader
MADRID, 15 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Italian rider Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati) has regained the leadership of MotoGP after winning this Sunday the Indonesian Grand Prix race, the fifteenth round of the motorcycle World Championship, and taking advantage of the fall of the Spanish Jorge Martín (Ducati) when he was leading the event , while Pedro Acosta (Kalex) won in Moto2 and Jaume Masià (Honda) defended his leading position in Moto3 despite finishing sixth.
‘Pecco’, who on Saturday saw how the Madrid native took first place overall after winning the sprint race in Mandalika, ran with intelligence this Sunday and rose from thirteenth to first position, all on a day in which He did not waste Martin’s ‘gift’.
In an incomprehensible way, when he was leading the race with more than three seconds of advantage, the one from San Sebastián de los Reyes took too many risks and suffered a crash at turn 11 with 15 laps remaining. With this, he was left without scoring and made it easier for Bagnaia, spurred by his mishap, to take the victory and command a podium that was completed by the Spanish Maverick Viñales (Aprilia) and the Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha).
Thanks to this victory, ‘Pecco’ regains the lead in the general standings (346), where he now leads with 18 points ahead of the Spaniard (328). Farther away from both is the Italian Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati), third, 63 units behind the leader.
Despite the outcome, Martín once again showed that he is the fittest driver on the grid and took command of the race as soon as the traffic lights went out. Bagnaia, for his part, managed to climb from his thirteenth starting place to sixth in the first lap.
With poleman Luca Marini (Ducati) out of the race after crashing, Martín and Viñales began to make room, with ‘Pecco’ in the hunt. The man from Madrid managed to separate himself from his compatriot, and when he already had three seconds ahead, he fell after the halfway point of the race and left the man from Roses in the lead.
Bagnaia, far from settling for second place, went after him and managed to pass him to take the victory and regain control of the World Championship, which is on with only five Grand Prix left to be resolved.
Among the Spaniards, Alex Rins (Honda) finished ninth, just ahead of Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia), and Raúl Fernández (Aprilia) was thirteenth. They were, along with Viñales, the only national riders who managed to finish, while the rest were left without points due to falls: Martín, Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda), Joan Mir (Repsol Honda), Augusto Fernández (KTM) and Pol Espargaró (KTM).
ACOSTA SIGNS HIS SEVENTH WIN OF THE YEAR IN MOTO2
In Moto2, Pedro Acosta (Kalex) won his seventh victory of the year, consolidating himself as first overall in the intermediate category, and led the Spanish triplet ahead of Arón Canet (Kalex) and Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro).
In this way, the man from Mazarrón continues on his way to winning his second world title, already holding a 65-point lead over the second-place finisher, the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex), who finished sixth this Sunday.
In the race, the Murcian, who started fourth, took the lead at the start after overtaking poleman Canet, and Arbolino responded by moving up from tenth to third place; Aldeguer arrived to the transalpine, who managed to surpass him and left him in the fight with Manu González (Kalex) and the British Jake Dixon (Kalex).
Canet kept up with Acosta until the halfway point of the race, when the leader managed to escape, and Aldeguer confirmed his podium position, certifying the Spanish triplet at the Mandalika International Circuit.
For his part, Manu González closed the ‘Top 5’, Sergio García Dols (Kalex) was eighth and Albert Arenas (KTM) finished fifteenth. Marcos Ramírez (Kalex) finished out of the points, sixteenth; Alex Escrig (Forward), eighteenth; Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex), twentieth; Izan Guevara (Kalex), twenty-first; and Alonso López (Boscoscuro), twenty-fifth.
MOREIRA WINS IN MOTO3 AND MASIÀ STILL LEADS
Finally, in Moto3, the Brazilian Diogo Moreira (KTM) took his first World Cup victory on the Indonesian track after dominating from start to finish ahead of the Colombian David Alonso (GasGas) and the Spanish David Muñoz (KTM), who came back from tenth position to the podium.
Meanwhile, the leader of the small displacement, the Spanish Jaume Masià (Honda), was not able to defend his second starting place and finished sixth, a result that still allows him to have a 16-point advantage over the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki ( Husqvarna), who was left without a score by being eighteenth after crashing on the formation lap and being relegated to the back of the grid.
For his part, Dani Holgado (KTM), who suffered a double penalty for exceeding the track limits in the final stretch of the race, was able to enter the points after finishing fourteenth, and remains third in the championship at 17 units that of Algemesí.
Moreira retained the lead of the race as soon as the traffic lights went out ahead of David Alonso and the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna), with Masià falling from second to seventh place. In the second round, Holgado took the lead of the race.
The man from Alicante tried to escape, but Masià reached him and managed to climb back to the podium places. His fierce fighting allowed the pursuers to get closer; Among the six candidates for victory, Moreira regained the lead with eight laps remaining while Holgado was penalized with two long laps for leaving the green.
Thus, Moreira signed the first World Cup victory for Brazil since Alex Barros achieved it in 2005. Among the rest of the Spaniards, José Antonio Rueda (KTM) was fifth, ahead of Masià; Iván Ortolá (KTM) finished ninth; Holgado finished fourteenth; and Xavi Artigas (CFMoto) was nineteenth. Neither Adrián Fernández (Honda) nor Ana Carrasco (KTM) could finish.