Assen MotoGP: Full Moto2 and Moto3 race results

The 22-lap Moto3 race kicked of Sunday’s action at the TT Circuit Assen, with Japan’s Sasaki taking a maiden grand prix victory in a chaotic race.

Sasaki started from pole but lost out to Leopard’s Tatsuki Suzuki off the line, before one of the title favourites Izan Guevara on the Aspar GasGas took the lead at the end of the second lap.

Guevara led for the next 17 laps as the pack behind chopped and changed, before Sasaki came through at the Turn 5 hairpin in the closing stages.

Sasaki would make his decisive move at the end of the penultimate lap as Guevara got swallowed back into the lead group of nine.

Max Racing Husqvarna rider Sasaki resisted a late surge from Suzuki and Guevara to take his first career grand prix victory.

Coming into the Turn 9 left-hander, the lead group shrunk when BOE Motorsport rookie David Munoz crashed and wiped out Ajo KTM’s Jaume Masia, while Sasaki’s teammare John McPhee slid out in his own incident.

Through the final sequence of corners, Guevara snatched second back from Suzuki as the sister Aspar GasGas of championship leader Sergio Garcia came from 18th on the grid to snatch third.

Suzuki was fourth at the chequered flag ahead of Prustel GP’s Xavi Artigas and Ajo KTM’s Dani Holgado, who had to serve a long lap penalty early in the race.

MTA Team’s Stefano Nepa was seventh ahead of Ryusei Yamanaka (MT Helmets), Tech 3 KTM’s Deniz Oncu and Kaito Toba (CIP).

Garcia holds a slender three-point championship lead going into the five-week summer break from Guevara, while a late crash for Leopard’s Dennis Foggia has cast him 67 points adrift in third.

2022 Moto3 Dutch GP: Full race result

Cla	#	Rider	Bike	Gap
1	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Husqvarna
2	28	Izan Guevara	GASGAS	0.314
3	11	Sergio García	GASGAS	0.392
4	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	0.399
5	43	Xavier Artigas	CF MOTO	0.661
6	96	Daniel Holgado	KTM	11.540
7	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	11.606
8	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	KTM	12.225
9	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	12.309
10	27	Kaito Toba	KTM	12.368
11	54	Riccardo Rossi	Honda	12.596
12	48	Ivan Ortola	KTM	12.878
13	20	Lorenzo Fellon	Honda	12.976
14	99	Carlos Tatay	CF MOTO	17.903
15	16	Andrea Migno	Honda	20.915
16	10	Diogo Moreira	KTM	30.606
17	67	Alberto Surra	Honda	37.419
18	64	Mario Suryo Aji	Honda	44.008
19	85	Luca Lunetta	KTM	44.132
20	70	Joshua Whatley	Honda	44.135
21	72	Taiyo Furusato	Honda	44.366
22	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	44.486
	5	Jaume Masia	KTM	1 Lap
	44	David Munoz	KTM	1 Lap
	17	John McPhee	Husqvarna	1 Lap
	31	Adrian Fernandez	KTM	1 Lap
	66	Joel Kelso	KTM	1 Lap
	7	Dennis Foggia	Honda	5 Laps
	19	Scott Ogden	Honda	17 Laps
	23	Elia Bartolini	KTM	18 Laps
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Fernandez wins in Moto2

Augusto Fernandez, Red Bull KTM Ajo (Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images)

In the 24-lap Moto2 race, Ajo KTM’s Augusto Fernandez took his third win of the 2022 season to move into a joint lead of the championship after a dramatic grand prix.

Speed Up rider Alonso Lopez led the early stages after jumping poleman Jake Dixon off the line, and headed the pack until the eighth tour when Intact GP’s Marcel Schrotter came through into Turn 6.

Schrotter, seeking his first grand prix win, would crash out at Turn 5 on lap 12, which promoted Aspar’s Albert Arenas into the lead ahead of Fernandez.

Fernandez would come through into the lead in the latter stages, while Arenas would crash on lap 22.

Once clear, Fernandez broke away to take victory 0.660s clear of Honda Team Asia’s Ai Ogura, who recovered from a massive scare on the opening lap that dropped him to 16th to take second.

Poleman Dixon on the Aspar bike completed the podium ahead of VR46’s Celestino Vietti, who missed the rostrum by just 0.033s in fourth.

Home hero Bo Bendsneyder on the SAG Racing machine was fifth ahead of Lopez, who ran off at Turn 1 late on, with Marc VDS’ Tony Arbolino, Joe Roberts (Italtrans), Yamaha VR46 Master Camp’s Manuel Gonzalez and Gresini’s Filip Salac rounding out the top 10.

Vietti holds the championship lead but is level on 146 points with Fernandez, while Ogura is just one point back in third.

Pons Racing’s Aron Canet is now 30 points off the lead having been forced to miss the Dutch GP due to nosebleeds as a legacy of a car accident prior to last week’s German GP.

Ajo KTM rookie Pedro Acosta was also forced to sit out this weekend’s Dutch GP after breaking his leg in a motocross training accident earlier this week.

2022 Moto2 Dutch GP: Full race result

Cla	#	Rider	Bike	Gap
1	37	Augusto Fernandez	Kalex
2	79	Ai Ogura	Kalex	0.660
3	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	0.725
4	13	Celestino Vietti Ramus	Kalex	0.758
5	64	Bo Bendsneyder	Kalex	1.485
6	21	Alonso López	Boscoscuro B-21	5.417
7	14	Tony Arbolino	Kalex	5.553
8	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	7.396
9	18	Manuel Gonzalez	Kalex	7.589
10	12	Filip Salač	Kalex	7.691
11	54	Fermin Aldeguer	Boscoscuro B-21	9.322
12	9	Jorge Navarro	Kalex	15.028
13	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	17.443
14	52	Jeremy Alcoba	Kalex	19.188
15	7	Barry Baltus	Kalex	19.256
16	19	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Kalex	19.898
17	42	Marcos Ramirez	MV Agusta	28.669
18	84	Zonta Van	Kalex	28.787
19	4	Sean Dylan	Kalex	44.544
20	24	Simone Corsi	MV Agusta	44.612
21	81	Keminth Kubo	Kalex	50.836
22	55	Alex Toledo	Kalex	51.009
	75	Albert Arenas	Kalex
	28	Niccolo Antonelli	Kalex
	6	Cameron Beaubier	Kalex
	61	Alessandro Zaccone	Kalex
	23	Marcel Schrotter	Kalex
	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex
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