Raúl Fernández dominates the Moto2 World Championship race in Austria
Rider Raúl Fernández has dominated the Moto2 World Championship race at the Austrian Circuit
The Moto2 World Championship was the next to hit the Austrian Circuit for the second race at this track this 2021 season, so let’s head to the intermediate category’s event on the Austrian track.
The start was good for Sam Lowes, the pole-sitter managed to hold position, followed by Raúl Fernández, and an incident was seen early on between Manzi and Navarro, which is being investigated by the Race Direction.
With 21 laps to go we saw Raúl take the lead of the race, after overtaking Lowes, and at that point he went for the all-out attack to escape alone. Meanwhile, we saw Sam Lowes fading, being overtaken by Ogura-Augusto.
As the laps went by, we saw Raúl still leading, but Ogura was not far behind and Gardner was passing riders step by step to try to get closer to the front of the race. Ogura also gradually closed in on the race leader, undoubtedly the maximum excitement at several points of the race.
With 3 laps to go, the Japanese rider was 0.3s behind Raúl, so there was a lot of excitement, but the 25 went full throttle when he saw Ogura closing in fast, launching the definitive attack to break the race open.
Finally, victory for Raúl Fernández, another one for the rookie who is leaving everyone speechless, followed by Ogura and Augusto Fernández. The top 10 was completed by Lowes, Vietti, Chantra, Gardner, Canet, Luthi and Bezzecchi. With this result Gardner remains the leader with 206 points, but Raúl is now 19 points behind the leader.
On to the next race.
