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Moto2 Jerez II
Andalusia Moto2: Bastianini beats Marini for first win
Enea Bastianini dominated the Moto2 Andalusian Grand Prix to claim his first win in the class, while a hobbled Tetsuta Nagashima recovered to 11th to hold his championship lead.
Lewis Duncan
Edited: Jul 27, 2020, 2:30 AM
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First-time Moto2 poleman Marco Bezzecchi nailed the launch off the line and held the lead at Turn 1 ahead of Bastianini and last week’s Jerez race winner Luca Marini.
Italtrans rider Bastianini quickly dispatched the VR46 Kalex of Bezzecchi and immediately opened up an advantage of half a second at the front.
Marini quickly surmounted his VR46 teammate Bezzecchi, who began to fall into the clutches of Sam Lowes on the Marc VDS Kalex as the top two opened up a buffer.
By lap five, Bastianini’s advantage stood at around seven tenths, though Marini would cut this down to half a second two tours later.
A mistake for Bastianini at Turn 8 on lap 11 gave Marini a sniff, but the Italtrans rider defended his line well and kept himself in check over the next few tours as Marini hounded him.
Bastianini would start to edge away again on lap 14, re-establishing his lead at six tenths and continued to put more daylight between himself and Marini.
With five laps to go, Bastianini had pulled the pin and his lead over Marini opened out to 1.8s, with that gap extending to over two seconds over the final few tours.
Keeping it clean across the last laps, Bastianini eased to his first grand prix victory since the 2018 Moto3 Catalan GP and has announced himself as a championship contender.
Marini crossed the line in second, while teammate Bezzecchi fended off a late charge from Lowes to secure his first Moto2 podium. It marks the first time there has been an all-Italian podium in the intermediate class since Imola in 1998.
However, while both VR46 riders celebrated with each other after the chequered flag, they both had an embarrassing collision at between Turns 1 and 2. Both were unharmed.
Aron Canet got his Aspar-run Speed Up bike to fifth ahead of KTM Ajo’s Jorge Martin, while Tom Luthi was seventh on the Intact GP Kalex.
Xavi Vierge was eighth on the Petronas Sprinta machine ahead of MV Agusta’s Stefano Manzi and the second Intact bike of Marcel Schrotter, who mugged Nagashima at the final corner when the Japanese rider ran wide.
Nagashima took a heavy knock in a crash in FP3 on Saturday and could only qualify 15th, but maintains a slender championship lead of two points over Bastianini, while Marini is now only five behind the Japanese rider.
Race results:
Cla # Rider Bike Laps Gap 1 33 Enea Bastianini
Kalex 23 2 10 Luca Marini
Kalex 23 2.153 3 72 Marco Bezzecchi
Kalex 23 3.243 4 22 Sam Lowes
Kalex 23 3.817 5 44 Arón Canet
Speed Up 23 9.155 6 88 Jorge Martin
Kalex 23 11.988 7 12 Thomas Luthi
Kalex 23 13.857 8 97 Xavi Vierge
Kalex 23 19.590 9 62 Stefano Manzi
MV 23 20.199 10 23 Marcel Schrotter
Kalex 23 20.262 11 45 Tetsuta Nagashima
Kalex 23 20.447 12 11 Nicolo Bulega
Kalex 23 21.464 13 37 Augusto Fernandez
Kalex 23 24.804 14 87 Remy Gardner
Kalex 23 26.370 15 42 Marcos Ramirez
Kalex 23 27.018 16 57 Edgar Pons
Kalex 23 27.126 17 16 Joe Roberts
Kalex 23 30.228 18 21 Fabio Di Giannantonio
Speed Up 23 30.895 19 64 Bo Bendsneyder
NTS 23 41.678 20 27 Andi Gilang
Kalex 23 41.793 7 Lorenzo Baldassarri
Kalex 20 3 Laps 24 Simone Corsi
MV 19 4 Laps 55 Hafizh Syahrin
Speed Up 12 11 Laps 9 Jorge Navarro
Speed Up 9 14 Laps 35 Somkiat Chantra
Kalex 5 18 Laps 40 Hector Garzo
Kalex 4 19 Laps 19 Lorenzo Dalla Porta
Kalex 4 19 Laps 99 Kasma Daniel Kasmayudin
Kalex 3 20 Laps 96 Jake Dixon
Kalex 2 21 Laps View full results
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