MADRID, 12 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish rider Pedro Acosta (Kalex) has been proclaimed Moto2 world champion after finishing second in the Malaysian Grand Prix race, the eighteenth round of the motorcycle World Championship, in which his compatriot Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro) has achieved his second consecutive victory, with Marcos Ramírez (Kalex) completing an entirely Spanish podium.
Acosta, who arrived in Sepang with 63 points of distance over the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex), only needed to be at least fourth, no matter what his rival did for the championship, to tie his second world title, after the one achieved in 2021 in Moto3.
The ‘Tiburón de Mazarrón’, 19 years old, complied; He now leads the transalpine team by 79 points – which was tenth this Sunday – with two Grand Prix remaining, enough income to mathematically win the championship. With this, he becomes the youngest champion of the intermediate category since Dani Pedrosa in 2004.
Once the traffic lights were turned off, in the first corner, Manu González (Kalex) – who started third – seemed to have won the first position when he met poleman Aldeguer; They both touched and the man from Madrid fell to the ground and was left in the middle of the track, and only a miracle prevented the rest of the drivers from running over him.
Acosta was already running second when a contact between Arbolino, the Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex) and the Spanish Arón Canet (Kalex), who would later be out of the race, left the Italian out of the points, allowing the Murcian to caress his qualification.
After the chaos of the first laps, the race calmed down with Aldeguer leading with more than six seconds ahead of Acosta, who in turn was leaving Ramírez behind. The positions were maintained until the end and the all-Spanish podium was confirmed.
As for the rest of the Spaniards, Albert Arenas (Kalex), Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex) and Alex Escrig (Forward) finished in the points zone by being, respectively, ninth, twelfth and thirteenth. Alonso López (Boscoscuro) was twenty-second and Sergio García Dols (Kalex), twenty-fifth.
In addition to Manu González, out since the incident on the first lap, Canet and Izan Guevara (Kalex) could not finish the test either, who crashed in turn 9.