Happy birthday to Jorge Martinez Aspar. Jake Dixon gave the victory at the MotoGP of Aragon to team leader on his 62nd birthday on August 29th. The Aspar driver started from pole for the first time this season and did not falter. The Briton beat a combative Tony Arbolino, who tried to close in the final laps to fight for the win, but the 96 had something extra and extended the lead to second place.
Dixon seemed intractable and crossed the finish line in first position to secure his fourth consecutive podium. It seems that the Briton has managed to find his best form in recent Grands Prix and has a second, a third and two first places. Deniz Öncü is third, who achieved the first podium for a Turkish rider in the intermediate category since Sofoglou in 2011. After him, Alonso López, third in the World Championship after Joe Roberts crashed on the last lap.
The race started with the fall of Arón Canet from the first lap after a touch. The Valencian rider started from the front row, but his hopes of fighting for victory or the podium disappeared from the first lap. Another candidate for victory, Fermín Aldeguer, also fell to the ground.. The Murcian rider who will move to MotoGP next year fell on the seventh lap after colliding with Öncü while trying to overtake him and went out by the ears. The fall was quite hard.
The Speed Up rider was fighting for the podium in the leading group and when he put the bike in front of the Turk to give him back the overtaking, The KTM rider gave him no room and when they touched the Spaniard he was thrown from the bike. But the stewards decided that it was a career move and did not punish Öncü.
On the other hand, World Championship leader Sergio Garcia suffered numerous problems throughout the weekend and eventually retired. with a few laps to go when he was last. He didn’t like it and didn’t have the pace to continue the race and decided to pit and retire from the race. He now has a 12-point lead over his teammate Ai Ogura.
