MADRID, 1 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish rider Jaume Masià (Honda) has achieved this Sunday a victory in the Moto3 race of the Japanese Grand Prix, the thirteenth round of the motorcycle World Championship, and is the new solo leader of the small category, while Pedro Acosta (Kalex) He also consolidates his leadership in Moto2 after finishing third in a test dominated by the Thai Somkiat Chantra (Kalex).
His great performance in Motegi, where he took pole on Saturday, allowed Masià to leave Japan with the lead alone, all after a race in which he managed to beat, precisely, his two main rivals for the championship: Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna) and Dani Holgado (KTM), second and third respectively.
Thus, the one from Algemesí, who signs his second consecutive victory, now has 199 points, six more than the Japanese driver and nine more than the Alicante driver, leader of the small displacement for much of the season and co-leader last week along with Masia.
Even so, the Valencian had to recover in the race after falling to fourth place at the start, in which the Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM) took the lead. It was not until the seventh lap when the now leader found a way to overtake the Ottoman to take control of the event.
Little by little, Masià headed towards victory while Öncü and Sasaki engaged in a fight for second position, which ended when the Turk fell to the ground while trying to distance himself from Holgado, who took advantage of the situation to get into in podium positions. The Japanese and the Spaniard still fought for second place in an exciting last lap in which the local driver emerged victorious.
As for the rest of the Spaniards, Iván Ortolá (KTM) finished fifth, just ahead of David Muñoz (KTM) and José Antonio Rueda (KTM) finished tenth. David Almansa (Honda) finished seventeenth and Ana Carrasco (KTM) twenty-second, while Xavi Artigas (CFMoto) was unable to complete the test.
ACOSTA CLIMBS ON THE PODIUM AND EXPANDS HIS ADVANTAGE
In Moto2, the victory went to the Thai Somkiat Chantra (Kalex), who demonstrated his dominance of the weekend and defended his pole position on Saturday to win for the second time in the Motorcycle World Championship in a race in which his teammate, the Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex), and the Spanish Pedro Acosta (Kalex) accompanied him on the podium.
With this third place, the Murcian strengthens his overall leadership of the intermediate displacement, in which he commands (252) with a 50-point advantage over the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex), eleventh this Sunday in Motegi. The British Jake Dixon (Kalex), fourth, is third in the classification, 93 units behind Mazarrón.
In the race, Chantra dominated from start to finish, while Acosta lost many positions in the first corner after being hindered by Arón Canet (Kalex). Little by little, the leader was eliminating rivals on the track until reaching the podium positions, where he finally settled.
In addition, Manu González (Kalex) achieved a sixth position, just ahead of Marcos Ramírez (Kalex) and Canet, seventh and eighth respectively. Also finishing in the points were Alonso López (Boscoscuro), thirteenth, and Izan Guevara (Kalex), fourteenth.
For his part, Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex) finished in sixteenth place, Albert Arenas (Kalex) finished in eighteenth, Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro) in twenty-second and Borja Gómez (Kalex) in twenty-fourth. Sergio García Dols (Kalex) could not finish.