Izan Guevara, who entered the finish line first, was left without a win for exceeding the limits of the track
MADRID, 29 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish rider Sergio García Dols (GasGas) claimed victory this Sunday in the Moto3 race of the Italian Grand Prix, the eighth round of the Motorcycle World Championship, after his teammate Izan Guevara (GasGas), who entered the finish line first, was sanctioned with a position for exceeding the limits of the track and finished second.
Guevara, winner in Jerez, was celebrating his second victory in the championship when Race Direction warned that he had stepped on the green on the last lap. The one from Burriana, who came in second, was finally awarded a victory that serves to endorse his advantage at the head of the general classification.
In this way, he adds 137 points, ahead of his teammate by 28, who despite the disappointment this Sunday rises to second place in the championship and displaces Jaume Masià (KTM), who could only be seventeenth and stays behind. 42 units of the leader.
In an uneventful start at Mugello, Turkey’s Deniz Oncu (KTM) held on to pole position against the push of Brazil’s Diogo Moreira (KTM), who climbed from seventh to second to get behind his wheel. Izan Guevara (GasGas) managed to overtake the South American at turn 1 of the second lap to become the Ottoman’s main pursuer.
Both overtook the ‘poleman’ one lap later and started a three-way fight that the Italian Dennis Foggia (Honda) took advantage of, who on lap 16 took command and began to escape with a large group of pilots on the hunt. However, everything was blown up with ten laps to go.
Oncu, the only rider who had scored points in all the races of the year so far, went down and Foggia also ended up in the gravel due to an intense gust of wind that revolutionized the event at Mugello. John McPhee (Husqvarna) and Dani Holgado (KTM), who had started second, suffered crashes and the front group was reduced to seven riders, with Moreira leading.
Guevara and Sergio García Dols remained with options until the end; The one from Palma managed to enter the finish line first, with 21 thousandths of an advantage over the one from Burriana and 33 over the Japanese Tatsuki Suzuki (Honda), but shortly after he saw how the victory was withdrawn for exceeding the limits of the track in the final lap.
As for the rest of the Spaniards, Iván Ortolá (KTM) finished seventh, Adrián Fernández (KTM) finished tenth, ahead of David Muñoz (KTM), Masià was seventeenth, Carlos Tatay (CFMoto) nineteenth, Xavi Artigas (CFMoto) twentieth and Ana Carrasco (KTM), twenty-second. Dani Holgado (KTM) failed to finish.