The deluge that had been announced throughout the Thai weekend ended up cutting five minutes before the scheduled start of the Moto2 race and overturning the Grand Prix, they started after a long delay, They managed just eight laps and in the end it was impossible to recover, giving the victory to Italian Tony Arbolino ahead of Czech Salac and Arón Canet. With two-thirds not completed, half the points will be shared and Augusto Fernández, who is seventh just behind Ogura, maintains the lead by a point and a half.
Once the Race Direction has removed the ‘wet race’ sign and the races have started on the grid, the helmet visors change for the riders and mechanics to change the setting of the bikes and tyres. Even Sergio García Dols came out to help by bringing a rain tire to the grid for his GasGas Aspar teammates. With everyone delayed, the race was cut to 16 laps.
The forecast in the dry indicated a double for Idemitsu Team Asia with Chantra and Ogura, in the wet it was a lottery as they had not ridden in the wet all weekend. Chantra remained leading the race from pole ahead of Alonso López and they had opened up a gap of 1″2 in the middle of the circuit with Canet fourth starting 18th on the grid. Tenth Augusto Fernández was went through the first lap in a race that became very critical in the rain.
Local hero Chantra crashed on the second lap leaving López and Canet in the lead. Pedro Acosta dropped to 17th place in these impractical conditions. On the fourth lap, Canet took over from López, who survived the fall for a long time, but began to lose positions. After two laps, Salac passed Canet to open the race, two riders looking for their first Moto2 win. But Arbolino behind them is already working on the comeback and nine from the end he has passed Canet.
Ogura and Fernández remained anchored in sixth and seventh with a difference of four seconds between them, allowing the Mallorcan to maintain the lead.
When Arbolino took the lead on the eighth lap by going wide, Salac Race Direction raised the red flag, the track was impassable and he aquaplaned. Since two-thirds of the race was not completed, a new starting procedure with a five-lap sprint race and a grid according to passing on the seventh lap. But it was impossible to recover and after the second red flag the race was over.
Regarding the other Spaniards, Alonso López was fifth, Fernández seventh, Arenas 14, Acosta 16, Jorge Navarro 20 and Ramírez 23.
Source: La Verdad
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