The Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex) claimed his second victory of the season, after the one achieved at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit, by winning the Moto2 Austrian Grand Prix, which gave him the provisional lead in the world championship ahead of his teammate team, the thai Somkiat Chantrawith the British Jake Dixon (Kalex) in the third position.
The Spanish Augusto Fernandez (Kalex), who came to Spielberg as the leader, has lost that condition, by a single point of difference, by finishing the Moto2 race in fifth position.
Ai Ogura came out like a shot when the traffic light went out to “negotiate” in first position the curve at the end of the straight, ahead of the Spanish Alonso Lopez (Boscoscuro) and Augusto Fernández (Kalex), with the British Jake Dixon (Kalex) in fourth place, although before concluding the initial turn it was the Thai Somkiat Chantra (Kalex) who occupied that position, with Pedro Acosta (Kalex) in a more than creditable fifth place on his return after the femur fracture he suffered.
In the second lap the initiative went to Alonso López, who overtook Ogura to try to pull hard and break the race from the first laps, as the leading group stretched considerably and in it the championship leader, Augusto Fernández, gave the first symptoms of weakness
In just three laps, eight drivers had already achieved some advantage over the rest. Alonso López pulling ahead, pursued by Ai Ogura, Somkiat Chantra, Jake Dixo, Pedro Acosta, Celestino Vietti, Aron Canet and Augusto Fernandez.
Little by little Ogura distanced himself and made the final selection of rivals, as only his own teammate Somkiat Chantra and Celestino Vietti held him, but when the Italian was preparing to beat the Asian, went down in turn three of the seventeenth lap and, although he tried to continue, he ended up leaving.
Thus, Ogura and Chantra were left alone at the head of the race, with a second group seven seconds behind in which were the Spaniards Pedro Acosta, Arón Canet, Augusto Fernández and the British Jake Dixon fighting for the third step of the podium and already with Alonso López, the initial protagonist of the Moto2 test, a little further back riding alone in seventh position.
As the leading duo “focused” on their particular fight between teammates, Pedro Acosta jumped on the chaser quartet to consolidate third position, but both Dixon and Augusto Fernández, who overtook Arón Canet, tried to get behind him in the final laps.
Ai Ogura watched as his own teammate Somkiat Chantra tried to take away a win that gave him the championship lead, but the Japanese overtook him back just two corners from the end to claim his second win of the season, with Britain’s Jake Dixon ahead of the Spanish-Spanish quartet made up of Pedro Acosta, Augusto Fernández, Arón Canet and Alonso López, with Albert Arenas ninth, ahead of Jeremy Alcove (Kalex) and Jorge Navarro (Kalex).
Mark Ramirez (MV Agusta) was nineteenth, while Manuel “Manugas” Gonzalez (Kalex) I have to leave because of a fall.
