The young Japanese driver completed another great race for his country and withstood the onslaught of his teammate and closest rival in Austria
Jake Dixon was third, with Acosta and Augusto closing out the Top5. Vietti went down as he was chasing the two Team Asia drivers.
Second victory in Moto2 and in the World Championship for Ai Ogura, who finished the job started yesterday afternoon at the Qualy and is placed leader of the world championship. The Japanese pilot came out like a shot for the victory, but was hunted by his partner team in the final stretch, which He was close to snatching him the twenty-five points in the last sector.
Chantra threw everything into the penultimate corner, but it came out slow and Ogura regained the position at the entrance to the finish line to delight the fans with one of the best endings seen in Austria for the intermediate category. third was Jake Dixon, who managed to overcome a Peter Acosta in the last corner. The pilot from Mazarrón had a great race and entered just ahead of his teammate Augusto Fernandez. Aron Canet was sixth and Celestino Vietti he went down while chasing the two leaders of Team Asia.
Exit without touches but with several scares, especially in the rear of the group. Up front, Ogura led the way unchallenged as Chantra climbed up from P5 to go after his teammate. After the first turns Sean Dylan Kelly and Keminth Kubo they went to the ground together at the tail of the platoon, in addition to Alessandro Zacconewhich suffered a strong fall alone.
After the two Honda Team Asia riders got together Celestino Vietti, Alonso López, Pedro Acosta, Arón Canet, Augusto Fernández and Jake Dixonalthough the one who was the leader of the World Championship for almost the entire first half of the championship, quickly went on the hunt for the two Asian drivers.
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But luck did not smile on the young Italian driver of the Mooney VR46, who went down when I had already contacted Chantra. Thus, the options of trying to assault Ogura’s leadership focused on his partner, who was cutting tenth to tenth to end up on top -with final show- in the last laps to the other Team Asia mount.