Moto2™ – Augusto Fernandez (Red Bull KTM Ajo) beats Ogura and Dixon in Assen cliffhanger.

Arenas got back into the podium places when he overtook Dixon at the Timmer Chicane on Lap 7, before Schrötter hit the front for the first time when he got past Lopez as they ran down the back straight on Lap 8. Fernandez passed Dixon for fourth at De Strubben on Lap 9, before Lopez ceded second position to Arenas and third to Fernandez on a ragged 10th lap of the race.

Schrötter looked like he might finally break through for his first Grand Prix victory until disaster struck for the German on Lap 12, when he crashed out at De Strubben and handed the lead to Arenas. On Lap 13, Lopez re-passed Fernandez at the Timmer Chicane, but the German GP winner prised second position back from the man on the Boscoscuro chassis at De Strubben on Lap 15.

Meanwhile, Vietti and Ogura, who started the race as the top two in the Championship, were closing in on the lead group as they battled over eighth position. Both were on a comeback after tough starts to the race, Vietti having only qualified 11th before finding himself even further away from the top 10 in the opening corners, and Ogura having two big rear end moments within the first handful of laps which had dumped the Japanese rider as far back as 16th.

Lopez dropped three positions to sixth when he ran wide exiting Haarbocht on Lap 16, promoting Dixon to the podium places again, as Vietti received a track limits warning. What would turn out to be the decisive lead change came on Lap 17 when Fernandez went underneath Arenas at De Strubben, while Bendsneyder sent the Dutch crowd wild when he passed Dixon for third just behind them. Unfortunately for the man from Rotterdam, he undid his good work with a slow run off the Timmer Chicane at the end of the lap. He was picked off by not only Dixon, but also Cameron Beaubier (American Racing), who got ahead of both of them.

Dixon re-passed Beaubier moments later at De Strubben, and signalled to the American that they should work together to catch the top two of Fernandez and Arenas, who had taken advantage of the battle for third place to skip several tenths of a second clear. They did just that, as Ogura moved into the top five with a pass on Bendsneyder at the start of Lap 19, which opened the door for Vietti to follow him through.

The Japanese rider went down the inside of Dixon for second position as they turned into Haarbocht on Lap 22, and Arenas got back in front of the Briton at the Timmer Chicane. Dixon got him back at the start of Lap 23, the penultimate tour of Assen, and Arenas was out of the race altogether when he dropped it at De Bult. That crash promoted Vietti to fourth, behind a top three of Fernandez, Ogura, and Dixon, and that is how they would finish – all within a second of each other – after an astonishing Dutch GP for the Moto2™ field.

Bendsneyder claimed fifth on home soil and Lopez, who had started to become somewhat ragged, got home in sixth, ahead of Tony Arbolino (Elf Marc VDS Racing Team), Joe Roberts (Italtrans Racing Team), Manuel Gonzalez (Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team), and Filip Salac (Gresini Racing Moto2™). Also in the points, from 11th onwards, were Fermin Aldeguer (MB Conveyors Speed Up), Jorge Navarro (Flexbox HP40), Somkiat Chantra (Idemitsu Honda Team Asia), Jeremy Alcoba (Liwui Moly Intact GP), and Barry Baltus (RW Racing GP). Sam Lowes (Elf Marc VDS Racing Team) was a notable among the non-finishers, throwing away third when he ran well wide at the first corner of the race, then crashing out altogether on only Lap 4.

That’s it for another thrilling Assen weekend for the Moto2™ field. After the summer break, the season resumed with Round 12, the Monster Energy British Grand Prix, at the Silverstone Circuit on August 5-7

Moto2™ Race Top 10:

1. Augusto Fernandez (Red Bull KTM Ajo)
2. Ai Ogura (Idemitsu Honda Team Asia) + 0.660
3. Jake Dixon (Inde GASGAS Aspar Team) + 0.725
4. Celestino Vietti (Mooney VR46 Racing Team) + 0.758
5. Bo Bendsneyder (Pertamina Mandalika SAG Team) + 1.485
6. Alonso Lopez (MB Conveyors Speed Up) + 5.417
7. Tony Arbolino (Elf Marc VDS Racing Team) + 5.553
8. Joe Roberts (Italtrans Racing Team) + 7.396
9. Manuel Gonzalez (Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team) + 7.589
10. Filip Salac (Gresini Racing Moto2) + 7.691.

Motul TT Assen

Moto2™ RAC Classification 2022

TT Circuit Assen

June 26th 2022

21º C

Partly-Cloudy

Track condition: Dry

Humidity: 63%

Ground: 30º

1	25	37 Augusto Fernandez	ES	Red Bull KTM Ajo	Kalex	167.1	39’07.1330
2	20	79 Ai Ogura	JP	IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia	Kalex	167.1	+0.660
3	16	96 Jake Dixon	GB	Inde GASGAS Aspar Team	Kalex	167.1	+0.725
4	13	13 Celestino Vietti	IT	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Kalex	167.1	+0.758
5	11	64 Bo Bendsneyder	NL	Pertamina Mandalika SAG Team	Kalex	167	+1.485
6	10	21 Alonso Lopez	ES	MB Conveyors Speed Up	Boscoscuro	166.8	+5.417
7	9	14 Tony Arbolino	IT	Elf Marc VDS Racing Team	Kalex	166.8	+5.553
8	8	16 Joe Roberts	US	Italtrans Racing Team	Kalex	166.6	+7.396
9	7	18 Manuel Gonzalez	ES	Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team	Kalex	166.6	+7.589
10	6	12 Filip Salac	CZ	Gresini Racing Moto2	Kalex	166.6	+7.691
11	5	54 Fermín Aldeguer	ES	MB Conveyors Speed Up	Boscoscuro	166.5	+9.322
12	4	9 Jorge Navarro	ES	Flexbox HP40	Kalex	166.1	+15.028
13	3	35 Somkiat Chantra	TH	IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia	Kalex	165.9	+17.443
14	2	52 Jeremy Alcoba	ES	Liqui Moly Intact GP	Kalex	165.8	+19.188
15	1	7 Barry Baltus	BE	RW Racing GP	Kalex	165.8	+19.256
16		19 Lorenzo Dalla Porta	IT	Italtrans Racing Team	Kalex	165.7	+19.898
17		42 Marcos Ramirez	ES	MV Agusta Forward Racing	MV Agusta	165.1	+28.669
18		84 Zonta Van Den Goorbergh	NL	RW Racing GP	Kalex	165.1	+28.787
19		4 Sean Dylan Kelly	US	American Racing	Kalex	164	+44.544
20		24 Simone Corsi	IT	MV Agusta Forward Racing	MV Agusta	164	+44.612
21		81 Keminth Kubo	TH	Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team	Kalex	163.6	+50.836
22		55 Alex Toledo	ES	Pertamina Mandalika SAG Team	Kalex	163.6	+51.009

		28 Niccolò Antonelli	IT	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Kalex	164	2 laps
		75 Albert Arenas	ES	Inde GASGAS Aspar Team	Kalex	167	2 laps
		6 Cameron Beaubier	US	American Racing	Kalex	166.9	4 laps
		61 Alessandro Zaccone	IT	Gresini Racing Moto2	Kalex	163.5	11 laps
		23 Marcel Schrotter	DE	Liqui Moly Intact GP	Kalex	166.6	13 laps
		22 Sam Lowes	GB	Elf Marc VDS Racing Team	Kalex	160.7	21 laps

Championship Standings Moto2™ 2022

Moto2™ Championship 2022

1	13 Celestino Vietti	IT	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Kalex	146
2	37 Augusto Fernandez	ES	Red Bull KTM Ajo	Kalex	146
3	79 Ai Ogura	JP	IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia	Kalex	145
4	40 Aron Canet	ES	Flexbox HP40	Kalex	116
5	14 Tony Arbolino	IT	Elf Marc VDS Racing Team	Kalex	104
6	16 Joe Roberts	US	Italtrans Racing Team	Kalex	97
7	23 Marcel Schrotter	DE	Liqui Moly Intact GP	Kalex	88
8	96 Jake Dixon	GB	Inde GASGAS Aspar Team	Kalex	76
9	51 Pedro Acosta	ES	Red Bull KTM Ajo	Kalex	75
10	35 Somkiat Chantra	TH	IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia	Kalex	69
11	9 Jorge Navarro	ES	Flexbox HP40	Kalex	62
12	64 Bo Bendsneyder	NL	Pertamina Mandalika SAG Team	Kalex	55
13	22 Sam Lowes	GB	Elf Marc VDS Racing Team	Kalex	51
14	75 Albert Arenas	ES	Inde GASGAS Aspar Team	Kalex	45
15	6 Cameron Beaubier	US	American Racing	Kalex	40
16	18 Manuel Gonzalez	ES	Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team	Kalex	39
17	54 Fermín Aldeguer	ES	MB Conveyors Speed Up	Boscoscuro	37
18	21 Alonso Lopez	ES	MB Conveyors Speed Up	Boscoscuro	35
19	52 Jeremy Alcoba	ES	Liqui Moly Intact GP	Kalex	33
20	7 Barry Baltus	BE	RW Racing GP	Kalex	16
21	12 Filip Salac	CZ	Gresini Racing Moto2	Kalex	14
22	19 Lorenzo Dalla Porta	IT	Italtrans Racing Team	Kalex	10
23	62 Stefano Manzi	IT	Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team	Kalex	9
24	5 Romano Fenati	IT	MB Conveyors Speed Up	Boscoscuro	7
25	2 Gabriel Rodrigo	AR	Pertamina Mandalika SAG Team	Kalex	6
26	61 Alessandro Zaccone	IT	Gresini Racing Moto2	Kalex	6
27	42 Marcos Ramirez	ES	MV Agusta Forward Racing	MV Agusta	5
28	81 Keminth Kubo	TH	Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team	Kalex	4
29	4 Sean Dylan Kelly	US	American Racing	Kalex	3
30	11 Mattia Pasini	IT	Inde GASGAS Aspar Team	Kalex	1
31	24 Simone Corsi	IT	MV Agusta Forward Racing	MV Agusta	0
32	84 Zonta Van Den Goorbergh	NL	RW Racing GP	Kalex	0
33	28 Niccolò Antonelli	IT	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Kalex	0
34	55 Alex Toledo	ES	Pertamina Mandalika SAG Team	Kalex	0
35	74 Piotr Biesiekirski	PL	Pertamina Mandalika SAG EUVIC	Kalex	0