With his 2nd win of the season, Pedro Acosta had the ability to close the space on Moto2 World Championship leader Tony Arbolino at the Circuit of the Americas. The race was not simple for the Spaniard from the Red Bull KTM Ajo Team.
Second on the grid, Pedro Acosta had great potential customers for a great outcome at Sunday’s race in Texas. The 18- year-old Spaniard still needed to combat up until the last lap of the race to take his 2nd win of the season and close the space on Moto2 World Championship leader Tony Arbolino to 7 points.
Because the error sent him back from the top of the field to 4th location. Acosta did not despair and worked his method back to 2nd location. Due To The Fact That his World Championship competing Arbolino likewise slipped up, Acosta had the ability to restore the lead with 3 laps to precede the checkered flag fell and safeguard it up until completion.
The Red Bull KTM Ajo rider stated after the success: “This track is really requiring and we understood it would be a hard race. I understood I needed to take the threat in the end due to the fact that if I got it incorrect in the starting it would set me back. I needed to attempt it and it worked out.”
His colleague Albert Arenas needed to begin with 19 th position on the grid and had the ability to enhance his position to tenth. Towards the end he dropped once again to twelfth location. “The race didn’t end as anticipated,” sighed the 26- year-old Spaniard. “We had an excellent rate from the start, however I could not maintain till completion. We made an advance in regards to speed, however it wasn’t enough to overtake the front group. If I had actually begun a little bit more we might have been more detailed,” he included.
Team supervisor Aki Ajo summed it up: “I enjoy with the weekend. Both motorists revealed great efficiency. We went directly into Q2 on Saturday and our beginning positions were excellent too. Because race, Pedro revealed when again how fully grown he has actually ended up being and how clever he can deal with circumstances. He took the best action at the ideal location at the correct time. He is among the very best motorists and has actually enhanced a lot. Albert has actually likewise made great development here and because race he was even in the top10 He had an issue at the end which set him back, however we took an action forward this weekend.”
Moto2 Austin/USA Results (April 16):
1. Acosta, Kalex, 16 laps in 34: 42.879 minutes
2. Arbolino, Kalex, + 0.146 sec
3. Bendsneyder, Kalex, +5.851
4. Alcoba, Kalex, +6.049
5. Salac, Kalex, +7.462
6. Aldeguer, Boscoscuro, +7.668
7. Lopez, Boscoscuro, +7.715
8. Canet, Kalex, +8.078
9. Vietti, Kalex, +11,114
10 Gonzalez, Kalex, +12,561
11 Chantra, Kalex, + 13.607
12 Arenas, Kalex, +14001
13 Lowes, Kalex, +20054
14 Foggia, Kalex, +22,990
15 Ogura, Kalex, +28,820
16 Roberts, Kalex, +21,893
17 Van Den Goorbergh, Kalex, +34,934
18 Kelly, Kalex, +42,540
19 Skinner, Kalex, +49973
20 Gomez, Kalex, +49973
21 Guevara, Kalex, +51470
22 Sanchis, Forward, +65224
23 Minamioto, Kalex, +104447
Championship standings after 3 out of 21 races:
1. Arbolino, 61 points. Second Acosta 54 th 3rd Canet 41 st 4th Salac 33 rd 5th Lopez 29 th 6th Dixon 26 th 7 Gonzalez 22 nd 8th Chantra 20 th 9th Alcoba 19 th Arenas 19 th 11 th Lowes 18 th 12 Bendsneyder 16 13 Vietti 15 14 Aldeguer. Roberts 4 19 Foggia 2 20 Ogura 1
Builders Championship:
1. Kalex75 2. Boscoscuro 33.
World Cup Team:
1 Elf Marc VDS Racing 79 2 Red Bull KTM Ajo 73 3 Pons Wegow Los4052 4 Gresini Racing 52 5 SpeedUp 43 6 GASGAS Aspar 26 7 Yamaha VR4622 8 Idemitsu Honda Team Asia 21 st Math 16 th SAGTAGITATI Team 1 of 1 SAGITATI 9 Moly Husqvarna GP Intact 10 th 12 Italtrans Racing 6th 13 Fieten Olie Racing GP 4th
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