Teruel Moto2: Lowes takes point lead with third straight win

Lowes had capitalised on crashes for rivals to win the previous two races at Le Mans and Aragon, but the Marc VDS rider didn’t require misfortune on others’ part this time as he led every lap of the race to complete a hat-trick of wins.

Lowes got the holeshot from pole position to lead into Turn 1, with Fabio di Giannantonio passing Remy Gardner at the following corner to move up to second.

Petronas Sprinta rider Jake Dixon also dispatched Gardner on the opening lap to grab third after a rapid start from seventh on the grid, only for the SAG rider to repass him on lap 3.

But Gardner was himself demoted from the final podium spot just two laps later by Italtrans’ Enea Bastianini, who had arrived for the second Aragon race as the championship leader.

While Bastianiani had managed to jump up from sixth to third in the opening five laps of the race, the top two were already well up the road by then, with Lowes leading the race by two seconds and di Giannantonio having a 1.3s buffer over third place.

Lowes continued to stretch his lead from there on, doubling his advantage over the next six laps, before pulling another four seconds clear in the final part of the race.

The British rider eventually took the flag by eight seconds to take his sixth career Moto2 win, and move into the lead of the riders' standings for the first time in 2020.

Di Giannantonio enjoyed a clean run to second, with Bastianini finishing another two seconds down in third to remain within seven points of new championship leader Lowes.

Their title rival Luca Marini ran as high as eighth in the early laps of the race, but fell outside the points at one stage, before recovering enough to salvage an eight-place result.

Marini’s VR46 teammate Marco Bezzecchi’s title hopes all but ended when he crashed at Turn 1 on lap 4, having qualified a disastrous 14th. Bezzecchi now sits 48 points adrift of Lowes with just three rounds to run.

Back at the front, Gardner finished two seconds off the podium in fourth, with front row starter Jorge Navarro (Speed Up) taking fifth after recovering from a terrible launch that left him in the lower reaches of the top 10.

Jorge Martin was sixth on the lead Ajo bike, ahead of Dixon and Augusto Fernandez (Marc VDS), with American Racing Team pair Marco Ramirez and Joe Roberts completing the top 10.

Race results:

Cla	#	Rider	Bike	Time
1	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	39'27.645
2	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Speed Up	39'36.070
3	33	Enea Bastianini	Kalex	39'38.516
4	87	Remy Gardner	Kalex	39'40.302
5	9	Jorge Navarro	Speed Up	39'40.651
6	88	Jorge Martin	Kalex	39'42.411
7	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	39'44.550
8	37	Augusto Fernandez	Kalex	39'44.672
9	42	Marcos Ramirez	Kalex	39'49.533
10	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	39'50.596
11	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	39'52.614
12	97	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	39'53.851
13	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Speed Up	39'53.962
14	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	39'54.330
15	24	Simone Corsi	MV Agusta	39'54.544
16	64	Bo Bendsneyder	NTS	39'55.049
17	11	Nicolo Bulega	Kalex	39'57.964
18	19	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Kalex	39'58.352
19	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	39'58.625
20	23	Marcel Schrotter	Kalex	39'59.146
21	27	Andi Gilang	Kalex	40'15.598
22	18	Xavi Cardelus	Speed Up	40'16.020
23	74	Piotr Biesiekirski	NTS	40'28.039
	62	Stefano Manzi	MV Agusta	37'59.983
	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	36'06.858
	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	28'24.563
	40	Hector Garzo	Kalex	18'56.822
	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Kalex	5'46.183
	12	Thomas Luthi	Kalex
	99	Kasma Daniel Kasmayudin	Kalex
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