Vietti scores his first victory and runner-up Acosta boosts his lead at the world championship

Spaniard Pedro Acosta (Kalex), who finished second most of the race, allows him to increase his lead in the interim world championship standings by ten points.

Acosta dominated the race from the first lap to the last six laps. a scare let Celestino Vietti stick with the flow of the streamItalian Tony Arbolino (Kalex), his closest rival in the championship, finished the race in sixth place and lost out loud.

This career Moto2 First casualty of Spaniard Alex Escrig recorded (Kalex), who broke his shinbone in the qualifiers and will not be able to play for a long time.

The author of the “pole position”, the leader of the world championship, Spaniard Pedro Acosta (Kalex), did not fail at the start and was the first to pass the dangerous first bend of the Austrian track, supported by the Englishman Jake. Dixon (Kalex) and Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex).

Puerto de Mazarrón’s main competitor in the ‘Shark’ category, Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex), starting from the seventh rowrebounded three places in the opening lap to move up to fourth placeahead of compatriot Celestino Vietti (Kalex) and Spaniard Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro).

But the rhythm Pedro Acosta was indisputable from the beginning.Arbolino slowly distanced himself from Dixon and Ogura, who were immediately following him, just a little further back.

In the fourth round, Acosta was seven-tenths of a second ahead of Jake Dixon and Ai Ogura, Celestino Vietti was already almost a second and a half behind, but gradually regaining ground from their opponents, Thai Somkiat Chantra (Kalex) took the position and Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex) lost them. This is the sixth.

One lap later the race lost two key heroes, Albert Arenas (Kalex) at Turn 3 and Alonso López (Boscoscuro) one lap earlier, both of whom got their bikes back and returned to the track in the last few positions.

Arenas dropped again, now in sixth place and now with no possibility to continue.

A tenth of a second, as Pedro Acosta tried to consolidate his lead, Ai Ogura tried to overtake Jake Dixon to catch up with the Spaniard and rekindle last year’s victory.

HE ‘Rifirrafe’ between Ogura and Dixon only benefited ‘Tiburón’ Acostawho gets over a second and a half from the eight-tenths of a second advantage.

With only 16 laps, the race could not have been thought to be over, but of course, everything was starting to turn in his favor since world leader, closest rival, Tony Arbolino. championship, slowly losing position.

Another Spaniard. Manuel Gonzalez (Kalex) fell to the ground without the possibility of continuing, nor is the American Joe Roberts At the back of the pack is Spaniard Arón Canet (Kalex), who finished eleventh and crashed on Turn 3 (Kalex) and on the penultimate turn ninth.

Ai Ogura managed to knock the Spaniard down by half a second, giving the impression that he could catch up in a few laps, but Acosta’s pace was solid and it didn’t take long for him to build up his advantage. makes it clear that he has the race under control.

Far from closing the gap between both Ogura and Dixon, they were overtaken by Italian Celestino Vietti.capitalized on Acosta’s ‘fear’ in Turn 2 It wasn’t until he depended on the airflow to get close to the Spaniard and even passed him six laps from the end, but when the roles were reversed, that it was Acosta who stuck with the Italian’s flow from then on.

But he is aware of Tony Arbolino’s problems and with “very fair” tiresPedro Acosta conceded second place behind Celestino Vietti and ahead of Ai Ogura.

Sergio García Dols (Kalex), Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex) finished twelfth, Marcos Ramírez (Kalex) thirteenth, Borja Gómez (Kalex) sixteenth and Alonso López twenty-first and eighth ahead of Fermín Aldeguer.