The Swiss rider continues to rise to the Championship, and is still in the running for the Moto2 title, in which he wants to believe.
While the title seemed to have slipped away in the middle of the season, today it is more than ever within reach. Tom Luthi. Certainly, the Swiss is 28 points behind Álex Márquez, but he managed to take 18 points back from him in three races. A victory against a blank result, and the two men would start the last Grand Prix of the season with only three small points difference.
It must be said that with two consecutive podiums, the Intact GP driver was able to take advantage of the slight drop in speed of the Championship leader, who only finished sixth and eighth. This Sunday, in fact, he had a very good race to climb from 11th place on the grid to the podium.
“I would like to thank my team because they gave me a very good bike today”, he commented. “We took a lot of risks with the big change to the bike for warm-up. It's good that it worked. I had a very good pace and the feeling with the bike was as good as in Motegi. I got a good start and was lucky to avoid the crash in front of me. Then I showed a good pace and was able to close the gap on Jorge Navarro, pass him and escape. But the two riders in front were unreachable for me. The KTM was very strong today, I couldn't catch them. »
“We did our best and these points are very important to us”, He said. “There are still two races left and the Championship is still open. I want to fight for the podium again in Malaysia. Everything is possible. »
