Celestino Vietti won the Austrian Moto2 race. The Italian surprised Acosta at the end, although Pedro is the leader, with a 12-point lead over Arbolino.
Were low lex Escrigthat he fractured a tibia, and Barry Balthuswith fractures in one foot.
He heat squeezed under the sun between the Austrian mountains. It was 29 degrees in the air and 39 on the asphalt.
At the start, Acosta held very well the position of the pole. Dixon trailed behind, followed by Ogura and a growing Arbolino. Instead, Manu Gonzlez went down to 13.
The Shark of Mazarrón had no doubts about his strategy: pull out from the beginning and whoever could follow him… if there was anyone qualified to do so.
Vietti quickly surpassed Arbolino, because he saw Pedro’s pull. Chantra was approaching Tony.
Sam Lowes fell out with Darryn Binder at the chicane. The South African was already the cause of the Dixon incident at Silverstone.
Chantra was quick to pass Arbolino. The Boscoscuro were trying to follow Salac to hunt down the Italian.
However, Alonso López had an accident at the chicane trying not to lose the Czech’s wheel. Soon it was Arenas who was kissing the asphalt. Albert was behind Aldeguer, ninth.
Tenth by tenth, the Murcian left and Ogura reacted by beating a Dixon, now overwhelmed by Vietti.
The Japanese forced so that Pedro did not leave him for more than a second, but oh i made a mistake into turn 3 and got into fights with Dixon again. Better for Acosta, who was already leaving almost two seconds.
Salac also pruned with a suffering Arbolino. Manu González, who was fighting to enter the ‘top 10’, fell at the chicane.
Ogura and Vietti gave a good account of Dixon. The Japanese, once again, took meters to cut Pedro. Roberts had an incident at the third angle.
The man from Honda Team Asia came within 1.1 of the man from Mazarrón, but Acosta had him under control and put things back in place.
arn Canet went to the ground in turn 9. The Valencian was fighting to enter the ‘top 10’. New stick.
With 11 laps to go, Vietti finally passed Ogura. He was a second and a half away from Pedro.
The Italian soon left Ai, who had a scare at the chicane. The one from the VR46 Academy was close to Acosta. Arbolino woke up, beating Salac.
Nothing was settled, because Celestino lowered the rent less than a second after a scare at the chicane. On top of that, the man from Ajo received a penalty warning for exceeding the limits of the track too many times.
Subtracting six turns, Vietti overtook Acostawho suffers with his tires.
With everything, the Spaniard did not give his arm to twist and kept close to Cele. It was going to be exciting.
Ace, in turn 9 they were about to touch and the Murcian fall. He had to give way and lost some space.
This made Acosta have to make do. Vietti entered the final turn with half a second ahead and Pedro accepted the 20 points of second place.
Vietti gave Fantic the first win and won for the first time since Barcelona 2022. Cele touched the green part between turns 9 and 10, but was the winner because they considered that there was no fight for victory.
