Arbolino and Holgado, to defend their leadership in Mugello

The Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex) and the Spanish Daniel Holgado (KTM), coming to the Italian Grand Prix of their respective categories, which will take place this weekend at the Mugello circuit, with wide advantage to defend 25 and 21 points, respectively.

The Italian has an unbeatable chance at Mugello to extend his lead in the points tablewhere his worst result was the fourth position in Jerez, without landing on the podium in the remaining events of the season, with two victories to his credit, in Argentina and France.

With these “numbers” and since Mugello will be his first “home date”, Tony Arbolino has many possibilities to be in the fight for victory, which will consolidate his leadership in Moto2, even if his rivals, starting with the wide representation of the Spaniard, will not be easy for him.

Pedro Acosta (Kalex) is the most immediate of his pursuers and one of the main candidates for the Moto2 title in 2023even the zero in France and his careful twelfth place in Argentina, have greatly conditioned his situation, so that the “Shark” from Puerto de Mazarrón has to come out of Mugello “to bite” his rivals to close the gap.

Like Acosta, drivers of Alonso López’s stature also have a chance to get close to the championship leader (Boscoscuro), third in the provisional world championship classification, who has not won a grand prix so far this season, to add to the two victories obtained in 2022.

In addition to Alonso López, among the fastest in Mugello were both Arón Canet (Kalex), as well as López’s teammate, Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro), as well as Albert Arenas (Kalex), Manuel González (Kalex) or Sergio García Dols ( Kalex), but they will not be easy with riders like the Czech Filip Salac, the British Jake Dixon and Sam Lowes, the Thai Somkiat Chantra or the Italian Celestino Vietti, all of them on the Kalex tracks.

Something similar is happening in Moto3, where Daniel Holgado, with two victories, in Portugal and the last one in France, has a 21-point advantage over Iván Ortolá (KTM) and Jaume Masiá (Honda) that he must try to keep in a category to one that although only three pilots share all the wins, grand prix after grand prix there are many more fighting in the leading group for victory.

And it is, in addition to them, in that leading group and with options for victory are riders of the stature of the Brazilian Diogo Moreira (KTM), the Spanish Xavier Artigas (CFMoto), David Muñoz (KTM), David Salvador ( KTM ), José Antonio Rueda (KTM) or David Alonso (GasGas), who, although he is Spanish by birth, runs with a Colombian license because he has dual nationality through his mother,

Along with them, we should also keep in mind the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna), Ryusei Yamanaka (GasGas), Kaito Toba (KTM) and Tatsuki Suzuki (Honda), or the Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM), among others.