Spaniard Pedro ‘Tiburón’ Acosta (Kalex) added an undisputed and single-handed seventh victory of the season at the Indonesian Moto2 Grand Prix at the Mandalika circuit, allowing him to escape the provisional world cup classification.
Acosta currently has 277 points. His most direct rival in the championship is sixth Italian Tony Arbolino Currently 65 points away (Kalex) It gives the Spaniard the opportunity to claim the championship ball at the next Australian Grand Prix.
The World Cup leader dominated the all-Spanish podium as he featured on both sides of the penalty area. He was accompanied by pole position author Arón Canet (Kalex) and Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro).Manuel ‘Manugas’ González (Kalex) was fifth, while on the last lap, British Jake Dixon (Kalex) overtook him after making a mistake in the final corners.
At the beginning was the first head-to-head combat between the SpaniardsArón canet (Kalex) and Pedro Acosta (Kalex) led the race from the first corner, when the Moto2 test was already without two heroes; Italian Alberto Surra (Kalex) and Spaniard Alonso López (Boscoscuro). Researched by Career Management.
The Madrid rider managed to restart the bike and returned to the race in last place, but after a few laps he had to go to his workshop to repair some mechanical parts and so returned to the track to try to finish.
Canet dominated the first roundHe was followed by Acosta, who fell behind at the start of the second quarter, but the Valencian quickly recovered first place, followed by both Manuel González (Kalex), Tony Arbolino (Kalex), Somkiat Chantra (Kalex), Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro). , Jake Dixon (Kalex), Sergio García Dols (Kalex), Joe Roberts (Kalex) and Zonta Van der Goobergh (Kalex).
Spanish Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex) penalized with double long lap He received a irresponsible driving ticket for being the culprit of the fall involving López and Surra.
Like Alcoba, Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex) was penalized with a long lap for touching and throwing Czech Filip Salac (Kalex).
By the third lap Acosta had already consolidated first place He was being pursued by Arón Canet, the author of the pole position. I tried not to lose contact with the Murcian pilot When he tried hard to break the race from Puerto de Mazarrón.
Only Canet could maintain the pace set by Acosta and both were left alone at the beginning of the race; The quartet of Tony Arbolino, Fermín Aldeguer, Manuel González and Jake Dixon were constantly raining blows on the opponents. To save the position.
Achieving the fastest lap record on the track many times ‘The Shark’ of Puerto de Mazarrón tried to get away from everyone, but Arón Canet resistedThere were some difficulties following the world championship leader, until the halfway point of the race, when the world championship leader became a bit “tight” and Canet had to throw in the towel to focus on maintaining second place.
Pedro Acosta’s performance was admirable and clear away from Arón Canet with the fastest lap record en route to his seventh victory of the season, ahead of two other Spaniards, Arón Canet and Fermín Aldeguer.
Behind them, the fourth place was taken by Jake Dixon, who left behind the Spanish Manuel González, while the Italian Tony Arbolino took the sixth place, while the Thai Somkiat Chantra, Sergio García Dols, Joe Roberts and Sam Lowes took the top ten places.
Albert Arenas (Kalex) finished in fifteenth place, Marcos Ramírez (Kalex) in sixteenth, Alex Escrig (Kalex) in eighteenth, Jeremy Alcoba in twentieth, ahead of Izan Guevara (Kalex), and Alonso López closed the classification in twenty-fifth.