Assen (Netherlands), June 25 (EFE).- The British Jake Dixon (Kalex) achieved his first victory in the world championship by winning the Moto2 Dutch Grand Prix at the Assen TT circuit, where the Spanish Pedro Acosta (Kalex), who was third, closes the gap in the championship to Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex), seventh.
However, this classification is pending the appeal presented by Tony Arbolino’s team considering that Pedro Acosta did not properly complete his “long lap” penalty, which is why he should have repeated it, which would have left him off the podium that he occupied. along with Dixon and the Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex), who was second.
So far, Tony Arbolino continues to lead the championship with 148 points, eight more than Pedro Acosta and 44 compared to Jake Dixon, who gains a position to the detriment of the Spanish Alonso López (Boscoscuro).
The start of Moto2 was truly brilliant for the Spanish Alonso López (Boscoscuro), who in just a couple of sets had already achieved a certain advantage over the Japanese Ai Ogura, the British Jake Dixon (Kalex), the also Spanish Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro ), Arón Canet (Kalex) and Albert Arenas (Kalex), the Thai Somkiat Chantra (Kalex), the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex) and the Spanish Pedro Acosta (Kalex).
Before the start, Sergio García Dols (Kalex) knew that he had to comply with the penalty imposed on him yesterday by the Commissioner’s Panel, after practice, for a double “long lap”, which practically cut off his chances of winning. fight for the podium
Little by little and thanks to the strong pace set by Alonso López, in just five laps the leading group was reduced to ten riders, always with Alonso López setting the pace, while Fermín Aldeguer was penalized with a “long lap” for cutting the Circuit in the variant from the entrance to the finish line when I was sixth, in the middle of the “load” of the main group.
The pace of Alonso López, on the eighth lap, meant that Ai Ogura, Jake Dixon and Pedro Acosta barely stayed behind in his wake, with a second group, led by Aldeguer before serving his penalty, more than two seconds behind the race. head race.
In that second group were Fermín Aldeguer, Tony Arbolino, who in this way could give up a significant number of points in his fight for the championship lead with Pedro Acosta, Aron Canet, Albert Arenas, Somkiat Chantra, and an increasingly low-key Manuel “Manugas” González (Kalex).
In addition to González, that group lost another of their units, the Thai Somkiat Chantra, who crashed to the ground with no chance of continuing, while Alonso López held firm at the head of the race, but without being able to leave Ogura behind, nor Dixon, nor “Shark” Acosta.
From behind, as soon as Arón Canet became the leader of that group, he changed the rhythm and began to close the gap with the leading group, which went from a difference of more than two seconds to one and a half seconds in just two laps, which made that the Valencian from Corbera was established as a bridgehead between both groups.
Dixon decided to take action on the next lap, the thirteenth, in which he led the race, after taking advantage of a mistake by Alonso López on the previous lap, and now followed by Ogura, Acosta and López, with Canet seven tenths behind who until then he had been the leader of the race.
A little later, on the fifteenth lap, the one who made the mistake at turn 5 was Jake Dixon, a moment that Ai Ogura took advantage of to take the lead and Arón Canet to stick with Alonso López.
Acosta, who was behind Ogura, wanted to stay behind the slipstream of the Japanese, but he pushed too fast at the entrance of the variant and had to skip it to stay on the track, which forced him to give up a position to Dixon, who was going for behind, and gave the Japanese a break, thus achieving an advantage of more than a second.
But Pedro Acosta did not lose position with Jake Dixon and was penalized with an unfair “long lap” – unfair because Pedro Acosta had to shorten the variation to avoid the fall – which literally ruled him out of the fight for victory.
Meanwhile, Alonso López was losing “bellows” little by little to finish sixth, just ahead of Tony Arbolino, Ai Ogura could not maintain the advantage over Jake Dixon who “hunted” him at the fast pace of the race, leaving the fight for the win, focused on both, and with the British beating the Japanese on the twentieth lap.
From that moment on and with a somewhat “tight” overtaking at the end of the straight, Jake Dixon took the lead and achieved enough advantage to guarantee himself the first victory of his sports career, ahead of Ai Ogura and Pedro Acosta, with Fermín Aldeguer fourth despite having to do a “long lap”, Aron Canet (Kalex) fifth, ahead of Alonso López, Tony Arbolino, Manuel González, Albert Arenas and Celestino Vietti, who took the top ten positions.
Sergio García Dols finished thirteenth despite his two “long laps” penalty, with Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex) fifteenth after penalizing three seconds for not being able to complete a “long lap” with which he was penalized at the end of the race, Carlos Tatay (Kalex), seventeenth and Yeray Ruiz (Kalex), twenty-second.
Izan Guevara (Kalex) and Borja Gómez (Kalex) did not finish the race due to a crash, while technical problems forced Alex Escrig (Kalex) to abandon.
Juan Antonio Lladós