MotoGP Australian GP: Full Moto2 and Moto3 results

The Australian GP action kicked off with the 23-lap Moto3 race where Izan Guevara was able to seal the 2022 world championship.

Regardless of where his rivals finished a top two finish would do the job for the Gas Gas rider, however he made a shaky start to the race, dropping as far back as seventh on a frantic opening lap.

He was quickly able to work his way back through what was initially a seven-bike lead group, though, as he looked to get close enough to teammate and early race leader Sergio Garcia to put the title beyond doubt.

By Lap 9 the lead group was whittled down to five, local hero Joel Kelso dropping back as Guevara led the first time after working through Garcia, Ayumu Sasaki, Deniz Oncu and Diogo Moreira.

The latter would swiftly fall away from the lead group as well, leaving Guevara, Sasaki, Garcia and Oncu to stage a thrilling battle for the duration of the race.

The title picture continued to change as the top four jostled for position, each leading at some point as both the race and championship went down to the wire.

Ultimately it was a rapid final lap that made the difference, Guevara pulling far enough clear of the pack to win both the race and become world champion.

Oncu finished the race second ahead of Garcia and Sasaki.

Stefano Nepa finished fifth while the battle for sixth between John McPhee and Kelso came down to a dead heat and a photo finish. McPhee was ultimately classified in the position, Kelso forced to settle for a career-best seventh on home soil.

Moreira dropped back to eighth while Dennis Foggia, who came into the race second in the points, was never in the hunt as he battled his way to ninth ahead of Riccardo Rossi.

Full Moto3 race report

Cla	Rider	Laps	Gap	Points
1	Izan Guevara	23		25
2	Deniz Öncü	23	0.345	20
3	Sergio García	23	0.460	16
4	Ayumu Sasaki	23	0.560	13
5	Stefano Nepa	23	7.428	11
6	John McPhee	23	7.496	10
7	Diogo Moreira	23	7.574	9
8	Joel Kelso	23	7.575	8
9	Dennis Foggia	23	16.794	7
10	Riccardo Rossi	23	16.831	6
11	David Muñoz	23	17.066	5
12	Carlos Tatay	23	17.768	4
13	Iván Ortolá Díez	23	17.884	3
14	Xavier Artigas	23	21.354	2
15	Jaume Masia	23	22.414	1
16	Andrea Migno	23	40.095
17	Kaito Toba	23	41.799
18	Adrian Fernandez	23	41.826
19	Lorenzo Fellon	23	41.828
20	Elia Bartolini	23	41.837
21	Joshua Whatley	23	41.946
22	Nicola Fabio	23	42.006
23	Ana Carrasco	23	42.753
24	Alberto Surra	23	54.640
	Ryusei Yamanaka	22	1 Lap
	Mario Suryo Aji	21	2 Laps
	Tatsuki Suzuki	18	5 Laps
	Scott Ogden	12	11 Laps
	Daniel Holgado	2	21 Laps
	Taiyo Furusato	2	21 Laps
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The 25-lap Moto2 race saw a dominant showing from Alonso Lopez.

The Boscoscuro rider went into the race with a long lap penalty thanks to his Free Practice 1 clash with Celestino Vietta.

Starting from the outside of the front row, Lopez sprinted in the opening laps as he pulled more than two seconds over Fermin Aldeguer, Tony Arbolino and Augusto Fernandez.

On Lap 4 he was able to serve the long lap penalty and still resume with a lead of over a second.

At that point Aldeguer started to drop back through the field, leaving Arbolino sitting in second place. That was until a high-speed lowside into the Hayshed on Lap 7 sent him tumbling through the gravel and out of the race.

That left Red Bull KTM Ajo teammates Pedro Acosta and Fernandez battling it out for second place with no real pressure from behind.

With chief title rival Ai Ogura mired back outside the Top 10 and struggling for pace, it looked as if Fernandez would cruise to a podium finish and extend his points lead.

That was until Fernandez dropped the front of his KTM at Southern Loop on Lap 16 and slid out of the race.

That left Jake Dixon, who has started down in 14th sitting third, while Ogura went from facing a significant points deficit to Fernandez to leading the championship.

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

Out front there was no stopping Lopez, who managed the gap back to Acosta expertly as he ran out the remaining laps.

His final winning margin was 3.5s, while Dixon finished a lonely third a further 6s down the road.

Aldeguer fought back to finish fourth in a tight battle back with Manuel Gonzalez and Jeremy Alcoba. Cameron Beaubier was ahead of that group for much of the race, but dropped back to seventh by the finish.

Somkiat Chantra and title outsider Aaron Canet finished eighth and ninth as Bo Bendsneyder rounded out the Top 10.

Ogura fought his way to 11th, which means he takes a 3.5-point series lead over Fernandez into the final two rounds of the season.

Full Moto2 race result

Cla	Rider	Laps	Gap	Points
1	Alonso López	25		25
2	Pedro Acosta	25	3.556	20
3	Jake Dixon	25	9.583	16
4	Fermin Aldeguer	25	15.745	13
5	Manuel Gonzalez	25	15.775	11
6	Jeremy Alcoba	25	15.892	10
7	Cameron Beaubier	25	16.034	9
8	Somkiat Chantra	25	17.949	8
9	Arón Canet	25	24.817	7
10	Bo Bendsneyder	25	30.652	6
11	Ai Ogura	25	32.981	5
12	Sam Lowes	25	34.407	4
13	Marcel Schrotter	25	47.584	3
14	Albert Arenas	25	47.608	2
15	Taiga Hada	25	48.028	1
16	Alessandro Zaccone	25	53.827
17	Marcos Ramirez	25	54.356
18	Sean Dylan Kelly	25	54.637
	Joe Roberts	23
	Barry Baltus	17
	Augusto Fernandez	15
	Celestino Vietti Ramus	12
	Filip Salač	10
	Keminth Kubo	10
	Niccolo Antonelli	10
	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	8
	Tony Arbolino	6
	Simone Corsi	3
	Jorge Navarro	3
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