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Aragon Moto2: Lowes wins again as VR46 duo crash out
Sam Lowes won his second-successive Moto2 race in 2020 in a dramatic Aragon Grand Prix, as crashes for Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi blew the title fight wide open.
Lewis Duncan
Edited: Oct 18, 2020, 3:37 PM
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Marc VDS’ Lowes took his first win in four years last week at Le Mans following a late crash for long-time leader Jake Dixon, and once again benefitted when Bezzecchi fell from the lead on the penultimate lap.
Bezzecchi jumped poleman Lowes off the line at the start to take the lead, while Petronas Sprinta’s Dixon briefly moved ahead of his fellow Brit on the run to Turn 1.
But Dixon ran wide and allowed Lowes back into second, with Fabio Di Giannantonio moving into third on the Speed up while his teammate Jorge Navarro crashed after contact with Marcos Ramirez exiting Turn 1.
Di Giannantonio would capitalise on a slightly wide Lowes on the run into Turn 12 on the opening lap to take second, though the Marc VDS rider carve back through again at Turn 2 at the start of the second tour.
Bezzecchi’s lead stood as half a second over Lowes and would maintain an advantage of around four to six tenths as he resisted the pressure exerted on him throughout much of the 21-lap contest.
His VR46 teammate Luca Marini would crash out on lap three at Turn 14, blowing the doors off this 2020 Moto2 title fight.
Di Giannantonio would charge into second again on lap eight ahead of Lowes before taking the lead from Bezzecchi two tours later.
But the Speed Up rider’s race lasted until lap 11, when he crashed at Turn 2, releasing Bezzecchi back into the lead.
Enea Bastianini came through from 12th on the grid to start hounding Ajo KTM’s Jorge Martin for third in the latter stages, making his first move on lap 15 with a neat scythe up the inside of Turn 13.
Martin retaliated at Turn 1, with Bastianini coming through again at Turn 8 and the pair continued to debate the spot, which allowed a gap of over three seconds to open up to the leading duo.
As the race entered its penultimate lap, Bezzecchi’s lead over Lowes had extended to eight tenths and victory looked assured.
But the VR46 rider crashed at Turn 2 to compound his team’s miserable Aragon GP.
Lowes kept it tidy to the chequered flag for his second win of 2020, while Bastianini got the better of Martin on the last lap for second to take the lead in the championship.
The MotoGP-bound Italtrans rider leads Lowes by two points in the standings, with Marini five adrift and Bezzecchi 25 down.
Dixon put the crushing disappointment of Le Mans behind him to claim a career-best fourth ahead of SAG’s Remy Gardner, who prevailed in a tussle with American Racing’s Ramirez.
Pons’ Hector Garzo, the sister American Racing bike of Joe Roberts, Tetsuta Nagashima (Ajo KTM) and Simone Corse on the MV Agusta completed the top 10.
Results:
Cla # Rider Bike Gap 1 22 Sam Lowes
Kalex 2 33 Enea Bastianini
Kalex 4.195 3 88 Jorge Martin
Kalex 4.340 4 96 Jake Dixon
Kalex 9.298 5 87 Remy Gardner
Kalex 14.765 6 42 Marcos Ramirez
Kalex 15.130 7 40 Hector Garzo
Kalex 15.192 8 16 Joe Roberts
Kalex 17.024 9 45 Tetsuta Nagashima
Kalex 19.000 10 24 Simone Corsi
MV Agusta 20.206 11 37 Augusto Fernandez
Kalex 22.661 12 12 Thomas Luthi
Kalex 22.692 13 57 Edgar Pons
Kalex 22.995 14 62 Stefano Manzi
MV Agusta 23.301 15 23 Marcel Schrotter
Kalex 23.989 16 97 Xavi Vierge
Kalex 26.747 17 19 Lorenzo Dalla Porta
Kalex 26.862 18 11 Nicolo Bulega
Kalex 27.686 19 55 Hafizh Syahrin
Speed Up 27.761 20 7 Lorenzo Baldassarri
Kalex 27.892 21 64 Bo Bendsneyder
NTS 36.250 22 27 Andi Gilang
Kalex 44.779 23 35 Somkiat Chantra
Kalex 45.687 24 18 Xavi Cardelus
Speed Up 47.231 25 99 Kasma Daniel Kasmayudin
Kalex 58.178 26 74 Piotr Biesiekirski
NTS 1'05.154 27 9 Jorge Navarro
Speed Up 3 Laps 72 Marco Bezzecchi
Kalex 2 Laps 21 Fabio Di Giannantonio
Speed Up 11 Laps 10 Luca Marini
Kalex 19 Laps View full results
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