Salač finished twelfth at Le Mans and scored for the second time in a row in Moto3

French Grand Prix, Moto3 race

Stephane mahe, Reuters

The Italian Grand Prix was won by the Italian Celestino Vietti and he scored his second triumph in the season and in his career. The Italian riding school also celebrated success in the MotoGP royal class, in which Danilo Petrucci also rejoiced in his second victory in life. He became the seventh winner in this year’s ninth race.

The fastest man in Friday’s training, Salač, started the race after an unsuccessful qualification from the seventh row and at the beginning of the third decade of the order he also kept to the beginning. He was therefore missing in a large front group, yet he gradually moved to the points position, mainly due to the number of falls of his opponents, and for the first time in the season he succeeded for the second time in a row.

“It’s points, it’s possible. But I’m not connected to it at all, because I finished in this position because there were falls in front of me,” said Rivacold Snipers, a stable driver, in a press release.

“Anyway, it was definitely not a bad weekend, Friday was great. I had a penalty yesterday and the qualification failed. But in the end I have four points from the race and that counts. “KTM, which was going very fast here on the straights. I know I have a problem getting ahead of the others, I have a lot of work to do in the next races. It’s definitely a good thing we’re going up,” he added.

The winners of the last three Grand Prix did not finish the race – the candidate for the title John McPhee and Romano Fenati finished on the ground, Darryn Binder was betrayed by technology after the triumph in Barcelona. Vietti was won by the third place in the classification, the Spaniard Albert Arenas moved to the top of the ranking thanks to the third place. The current leader Ai Ogura from Japan finished ninth and lost six points on Arenas. Salač was helped by a four-point gain to move to the twentieth position.

After the weakest class race in Le Mans, the shower took place and the riders of the main category drove in the wet after a delayed start. Valentino Rossi paid for the slippery track after a few meters, and the seven-time MotoGP World Champion did not reach the finish line for the third time in a row. The conditions testified to others and the podium was occupied by the riders who were in the second ten of the World Championship standings before the race.

After starting from the front row, the 29-year-old Petrucci continued last year’s success in the Italian GP in Mugello. This year, the best so far was the seventh, as well as Álex Márquez from Spain, who decided for himself a duel with his compatriot Pol Espargar for second place. The younger brother of world champion Marc Márquez, who has been missing from the injuries in the opening race of the season in the championship, achieved the best result after the transfer after last year’s Moto2 title.

The Frenchman Fabio Quartararo remained at the head of the World Cup. He finished ninth in the home race, yet left behind the two most serious competitors, Joan Miro and Maverick Viñales from Spain, and increased his lead to 10 points.

In Moto2, after four years, Brit Sam Lowes won and, in the current standings, finish in fourth place in a trio of Italians. Luca Marini continues to lead, although he did not score in the 17th finish at Le Mans.

The second year of the MotoE World Cup became the prey of the Spaniard Jordi Torres, who overtook the defending champion Matteo Ferrari in Saturday’s triumph and sealed the first place in today’s final race of the season. Among the 15 riders who finished the race, Jakub Kornfeil finished last and is on the tail of the standings in the final classification of the series.