Austria Moto3: Mir scores maiden win from Binder, Navarro crashes

Starting from pole, Mir was in the front group throughout the entire race, and was a late leader.

The front-row starting trio of Mir, Binder and Bastianini quickly pulled a gap on the rest of the grid after the start, taking turns in leading.

However, the constant scrapping allowed first Fabio Quartararo and then several others to catch up with.

Following the opening couple of laps, Binder managed to stay in the lead for a longer period, recovering from being overtaken in the first half of the circuit by counter-attacking later on.

After eventually falling behind Quartararo, he retook the lead a lap later and, taking advantage of a four-way fight for second, he managed to stay there for most of the race.

However, he came under pressure as the final stages of the race kicked off, and after being passed by Leopard duo Mir and Quartararo, he ran slightly wide at Schlossgold and lost two further spots.

Mir held on to the lead for most of the race and, even though he was passed by Bastianini and Binder on the last lap, he fought back at Schlossgold to secure the win.

Binder finished second, extending his championship lead over the non-scoring Jorge Navarro - who crashed out at Remus with five laps remaining  - and the absent Romano Fenati by 20 points.

Bastianini completed the podium, edging out Quartararo by 0.008s with Oettl settling for fifth.

Both Mahindra's Jorge Martin and Ajo KTM's Bo Bendsneyder took their best Moto3 results in sixth and seventh respectively.

Italian Fabio Di Giannantonio and Nicolo Bulega finished eighth and ninth as Livio Loi, sixth until the penultimate lap, completed the top 10.

Race results

Cla	#	Driver	Bike	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Retirement	Points
1	36	Joan Mir	KTM	23	37'23.325				25
2	41	Brad Binder	KTM	23	37'23.604	0.279	0.279		20
3	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	23	37'23.756	0.431	0.152		16
4	20	Fabio Quartararo	KTM	23	37'23.764	0.439	0.008		13
5	65	Philipp Ottl	KTM	23	37'23.925	0.600	0.161		11
6	88	Jorge Martin	Mahindra	23	37'27.459	4.134	3.534		10
7	64	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	23	37'27.486	4.161	0.027		9
8	4	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	23	37'28.295	4.970	0.809		8
9	8	Nicolo Bulega	KTM	23	37'28.297	4.972	0.002		7
10	11	Livio Loi	Honda	23	37'28.587	5.262	0.290		6
11	21	Francesco Bagnaia	Mahindra	23	37'28.740	5.415	0.153		5
12	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	23	37'29.196	5.871	0.456		4
13	55	Andrea Locatelli	KTM	23	37'29.230	5.905	0.034		3
14	6	Maria Herrera	KTM	23	37'36.100	12.775	6.870		2
15	76	Hiroki Ono	Honda	23	37'36.164	12.839	0.064		1
16	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	23	37'36.267	12.942	0.103
17	40	Darryn Binder	Mahindra	23	37'37.415	14.090	1.148
18	23	Niccolo Antonelli	Honda	23	37'37.731	14.406	0.316
19	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Honda	23	37'37.842	14.517	0.111
20	62	Stefano Manzi	Mahindra	23	37'37.870	14.545	0.028
21	44	Aron Canet	Honda	23	37'37.988	14.663	0.118
22	12	Albert Arenas	Peugeot	23	37'40.457	17.132	2.469
23	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	23	37'40.768	17.443	0.311
24	17	John McPhee	Peugeot	23	37'51.631	28.306	10.863
25	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	23	37'51.730	28.405	0.099
26	42	Marcos Ramirez	Mahindra	23	38'03.538	40.213	11.808
27	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Honda	23	38'03.686	40.361	0.148
28	43	Stefano Valtulini	Mahindra	23	38'27.365	1'04.040	23.679
29	3	Fabio Spiranelli	Mahindra	23	38'27.383	1'04.058	0.018
30	77	Lorenzo Petrarca	Mahindra	23	38'27.838	1'04.513	0.455
	9	Jorge Navarro	Honda	18	29'18.573	5 Laps	5 Laps	Accident
	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	14	22'51.805	9 Laps	4 Laps	Accident
	53	Marco Bezzecchi	Mahindra	5	8'21.411	18 Laps	9 Laps	Accident
	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Mahindra	5	8'22.188	18 Laps	0.777	Accident