Acosta captured his fourth victory of the year in style

The pilot of Puerto de Mazarrón Pedro Acosta He took his fourth victory of the year out of a possible seven in another solo exhibition at the Sachsenring circuit where he had already won Moto3 and signed up his first Grand Chelem, pole position, victory, fastest race lap and leader all laps. The Murcian deducts another five points on leader Arbolino who takes second with just 15 remaining between them and Jake Dixon completes the podium. It was the first time Acosta had achieved two consecutive victories in the Moto2 category as he continued to embarrass KTM, which must decide before the end of the month whether to upgrade it to MotoGP or lose it.

Pedro Acosta and Tony Arbolino they met for the first time first and second on a starting grid at the Sachsenring. The two ‘sharks’ have already let go of the battle so the outlook is clear and they stay in front of the championship, super regular and precise -the room in Jerez is the worst- every Sunday the Milanese from Maresme -lives in Premià de Dalt – ; more explosive, but a bit more irregular -a zero at Le Mans- the Murcian from Puerto de Mazarrón.

Previous experiences with sachsenring and the best dry weekend designated Acosta as the favorite. He won Moto3 in his successful rookie year of 2021 and was second in his rookie year in Moto 2 in 2022, overtaken by his then teammate and eventual champion Augusto Fernández. And he came off an inspiring exhibition at Mugello that ended up handing out pizzas to shake up his rival.

Arbolino’s record at the Sachsenring is more humble: 10th last year was the best, but the 20-point advantage in the table where he started the race is his main endorsement.

At the start, Arbolino surprised Acosta and led the race until, at the descent of turn 11, the Murcian was brave and overtook his rival on the first lap, but both had already gained half a second on Alonso Lopez. With Pedro’s race record pace and Tony on his tail, they were already 1″2 behind his pursuer, now Canet, by the third lap.

The determined Acosta continued to show his cape with “if possible, follow me” to Arbolino who gradually lost the distance and the second fell before the end of the sixth turn and the 2″ in the tenth. In seventh came the fall of the wounded Aron Canet when he was left alone chasing the two strong men in the world championship and he gave the temporary podium place to Jake Dixon who soon Chantra and Alonso López put 1″ to seal third place in no time.

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But arbolino He’s losing steam and Dixon joins him with 9 more. He didn’t have the speed to face Acosta, but he defended himself perfectly with no mistakes for second place. The Englishman put pressure on him in the final two laps, but he handled the stressful situation well to finish second ahead of Dixon.

Regarding the remaining Spaniards, fifth Alonso, López, sixth Manu González, eighth Fermín Aldeguer, ninth Albert Arenas, eleventh Sergio García, 16th Jeremy Alcoba, after a long lap penalty, 19th Carlos Father, 20th Marcos Ramírez and Izan Marcos. Guevara on the ninth lap when he was 25th.

Moto2 Sachsenring classification