Pedro Acosta added his sixth after a Buddh exhibition

The Murcian pilot Pedro Acosta added his sixth victory of the year in Moto2, his ninth of the year and three-quarters in the category, with a decisive victory at the Buddh circuit in a race shortened to 12 laps after the first red flag. He was unopposed in his second straight victory, as Tony Arbolino for second place and the best fight is for third place between rookies Sergio Garcia Dolls and the American veteran Joe Roberts decided the last corner of the race in favor of Hollywood.

With 10 podiums from a possible 13 and 39 points ahead in seven races, Pedro Acosta is heading straight for his second World Championship title in three years and becoming the next big star in MotoGP where he still hasn’t entered. know if he can ride. KTM painted in official colors or GasGas colors.

From the pole, Dixon kept the initiative ahead of Acosta, who was almost won by Alonso López, but he slipped to position 1, and in the middle of the group there was a huge pileup involving five drivers -Vietti, Chantra, Alcoba , Ramírez and Hada – and the red flag is inevitable. Race Direction decided to eliminate six laps at once and was left with a Sprint of 12. Only Vietti – with a right pubic fracture – and Hada were unable to continue. And Alcoba received a long lap to consider the reason.

At this moment Sergio Garcia Dolls He went first through the first corner after López and Dixon got away, but Pedro Acosta He wasted no time and quickly passed the rookie from Castellón and Arbolino did the same before finishing the first lap with a 1″ loss to Acosta. And Tiburón de Mazarrón started to apply the hammer after a weekend where worked in. perfect in rhythm.

And in three laps three of the top-5 of the championship crashed, Arón Canet in the opening lap and in third Alonso López and polesitter Jake Dixon when they were fighting for fifth place, a race incident. At the front Acosta had already put 2″ on Arbolino by the fifth turn and so they remained separated until the end and he had already taken out García Dols by 1″ joined by Roberts for the fight for third place.

A fight where the two decide to go to the satellite dish on different routes and the American goes inside. Sergio tried it at turn 1 but he got Hollywood back, again at turn four the brave García Dols got through again. They still passed each other very cleanly several times and in the final corner Roberts took advantage of the fact that Dols was pulling away to make his way to the podium.

As for the other Spaniards, 5th Manu González, 9th Marcos Ramírez, 12th Fermín Aldeguer, 13th Izan Guevara, 14th Albert Arenas after starting last, 16th Borja Gómez and Jeremy Alcoba crashed in the eighth turn when he was doing one of the long lap penalty and the bike stuck in the gravel, from Alonso López in the third turn and from Arón Canet in the first pass through 4.

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