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Assen MotoGP: Full Moto2 and Moto3 race results

The 22-lap Moto3 race kicked of Sunday’s action at the TT Circuit Assen, with Japan’s Sasaki taking a maiden grand prix victory in a chaotic race.

Sasaki started from pole but lost out to Leopard’s Tatsuki Suzuki off the line, before one of the title favourites Izan Guevara on the Aspar GasGas took the lead at the end of the second lap.

Guevara led for the next 17 laps as the pack behind chopped and changed, before Sasaki came through at the Turn 5 hairpin in the closing stages.

Sasaki would make his decisive move at the end of the penultimate lap as Guevara got swallowed back into the lead group of nine.

Max Racing Husqvarna rider Sasaki resisted a late surge from Suzuki and Guevara to take his first career grand prix victory.

Coming into the Turn 9 left-hander, the lead group shrunk when BOE Motorsport rookie David Munoz crashed and wiped out Ajo KTM’s Jaume Masia, while Sasaki’s teammare John McPhee slid out in his own incident.

Through the final sequence of corners, Guevara snatched second back from Suzuki as the sister Aspar GasGas of championship leader Sergio Garcia came from 18th on the grid to snatch third.

Suzuki was fourth at the chequered flag ahead of Prustel GP’s Xavi Artigas and Ajo KTM’s Dani Holgado, who had to serve a long lap penalty early in the race.

MTA Team’s Stefano Nepa was seventh ahead of Ryusei Yamanaka (MT Helmets), Tech 3 KTM’s Deniz Oncu and Kaito Toba (CIP).

Garcia holds a slender three-point championship lead going into the five-week summer break from Guevara, while a late crash for Leopard’s Dennis Foggia has cast him 67 points adrift in third.

2022 Moto3 Dutch GP: Full race result

Cla # Rider Bike Gap
1 71 Japan Ayumu Sasaki Husqvarna  
2 28 Spain Izan Guevara GASGAS 0.314
3 11 Spain Sergio García GASGAS 0.392
4 24 Japan Tatsuki Suzuki Honda 0.399
5 43 Spain Xavier Artigas CF MOTO 0.661
6 96 Spain Daniel Holgado KTM 11.540
7 82 Italy Stefano Nepa KTM 11.606
8 6 Japan Ryusei Yamanaka KTM 12.225
9 53 Turkey Deniz Öncü KTM 12.309
10 27 Japan Kaito Toba KTM 12.368
11 54 Italy Riccardo Rossi Honda 12.596
12 48 Ivan Ortola KTM 12.878
13 20 France Lorenzo Fellon Honda 12.976
14 99 Spain Carlos Tatay CF MOTO 17.903
15 16 Italy Andrea Migno Honda 20.915
16 10 Brazil Diogo Moreira KTM 30.606
17 67 Italy Alberto Surra Honda 37.419
18 64 Indonesia Mario Suryo Aji Honda 44.008
19 85 Luca Lunetta KTM 44.132
20 70 United Kingdom Joshua Whatley Honda 44.135
21 72 Japan Taiyo Furusato Honda 44.366
22 22 Spain Ana Carrasco KTM 44.486
  5 Spain Jaume Masia KTM 1 Lap
  44 Spain David Munoz KTM 1 Lap
  17 United Kingdom John McPhee Husqvarna 1 Lap
  31 Mexico Adrian Fernandez KTM 1 Lap
  66 Australia Joel Kelso KTM 1 Lap
  7 Italy Dennis Foggia Honda 5 Laps
  19 United Kingdom Scott Ogden Honda 17 Laps
  23 Italy Elia Bartolini KTM 18 Laps

Fernandez wins in Moto2

Augusto Fernandez, Red Bull KTM Ajo (Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images)

In the 24-lap Moto2 race, Ajo KTM’s Augusto Fernandez took his third win of the 2022 season to move into a joint lead of the championship after a dramatic grand prix.

Speed Up rider Alonso Lopez led the early stages after jumping poleman Jake Dixon off the line, and headed the pack until the eighth tour when Intact GP’s Marcel Schrotter came through into Turn 6.

Schrotter, seeking his first grand prix win, would crash out at Turn 5 on lap 12, which promoted Aspar’s Albert Arenas into the lead ahead of Fernandez.

Fernandez would come through into the lead in the latter stages, while Arenas would crash on lap 22.

Once clear, Fernandez broke away to take victory 0.660s clear of Honda Team Asia’s Ai Ogura, who recovered from a massive scare on the opening lap that dropped him to 16th to take second.

Poleman Dixon on the Aspar bike completed the podium ahead of VR46’s Celestino Vietti, who missed the rostrum by just 0.033s in fourth.

Home hero Bo Bendsneyder on the SAG Racing machine was fifth ahead of Lopez, who ran off at Turn 1 late on, with Marc VDS’ Tony Arbolino, Joe Roberts (Italtrans), Yamaha VR46 Master Camp’s Manuel Gonzalez and Gresini’s Filip Salac rounding out the top 10.

Vietti holds the championship lead but is level on 146 points with Fernandez, while Ogura is just one point back in third.

Pons Racing’s Aron Canet is now 30 points off the lead having been forced to miss the Dutch GP due to nosebleeds as a legacy of a car accident prior to last week’s German GP.

Ajo KTM rookie Pedro Acosta was also forced to sit out this weekend’s Dutch GP after breaking his leg in a motocross training accident earlier this week.

2022 Moto2 Dutch GP: Full race result

Cla # Rider Bike Gap
1 37 Spain Augusto Fernandez Kalex  
2 79 Japan Ai Ogura Kalex 0.660
3 96 United Kingdom Jake Dixon Kalex 0.725
4 13 Italy Celestino Vietti Ramus Kalex 0.758
5 64 Netherlands Bo Bendsneyder Kalex 1.485
6 21 Spain Alonso López Boscoscuro B-21 5.417
7 14 Italy Tony Arbolino Kalex 5.553
8 16 United States Joe Roberts Kalex 7.396
9 18 Spain Manuel Gonzalez Kalex 7.589
10 12 Czech Republic Filip Salač Kalex 7.691
11 54 Spain Fermin Aldeguer Boscoscuro B-21 9.322
12 9 Spain Jorge Navarro Kalex 15.028
13 35 Thailand Somkiat Chantra Kalex 17.443
14 52 Spain Jeremy Alcoba Kalex 19.188
15 7 Belgium Barry Baltus Kalex 19.256
16 19 Italy Lorenzo Dalla Porta Kalex 19.898
17 42 Spain Marcos Ramirez MV Agusta 28.669
18 84 Zonta Van Kalex 28.787
19 4 Sean Dylan Kalex 44.544
20 24 Italy Simone Corsi MV Agusta 44.612
21 81 Thailand Keminth Kubo Kalex 50.836
22 55 Alex Toledo Kalex 51.009
  75 Spain Albert Arenas Kalex  
  28 Italy Niccolo Antonelli Kalex  
  6 United States Cameron Beaubier Kalex  
  61 Italy Alessandro Zaccone Kalex  
  23 Germany Marcel Schrotter Kalex  
  22 United Kingdom Sam Lowes Kalex  
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