She's been waiting but she's here. Johann Zarco won his race in Italy at the end of a Grand Prix marked by two takeoffs, a catastrophic new starting procedure and a race reduced to 10 laps with a disrupted starting grid. We had to keep a cool head. And the World Champion was able to emerge victorious from this chaos.
However, things were not going well for the Ajo driver shortly after the first start. Eighth and starting with a soft rear tire that his rivals had rejected, he however began his comeback before the Mistral 610 of Virgin does not damage protection on the route in an impact. Hostilities were immediately stopped and the new procedure called “ Quick Restart » could be tested. A disaster.
A failure because many drivers left the pit lane too late to get back on the grid. Pons, Rins, Corsi, Simeon Wilairot, Nakagami and Fulligni were recalled to the pits. Too large a contingent to continue the procedure which therefore had to be reset. We will note, among these names, the favorites for the race and the championship leader who were forced into the last places when it was time to return to the front for 10 laps.
Tempers had become heated and the mechanisms were overheated. In the round yet still warming up, Simeon was falling. The last adventure before, finally, the sporting explanation. This was marked by a merciless duel between zarco et Baldassari monitored by Lüthi et Lowes, the latter containing Syarhin. At the finish line, it was the Frenchman who snatched the piece ahead of the Italian while the Briton outsmarted the Swiss for the last step of the podium.
Kidneys still finished seventh but lost control of the championship to the benefit of Lowes. zarco, with this second victory of the season relaunches himself in the title race by returning to the top three overall and 17 points behind the new leader Lowes.
Mugello, Moto2, Race: Ranking
| 1 | 5 | johann zarco | Kalex | 18'59.391 |
| 2 | 7 | Lorenzo BALDASSARRI | Kalex | +0.030 |
| 3 | 22 | Sam LOWES | Kalex | +1.096 |
| 4 | 12 | Thomas LUTHI | Kalex | +1.215 |
| 5 | 55 | Hafiz Syahrin | Kalex | +1.653 |
| 6 | 49 | Axel PONS | Kalex | +2.110 |
| 7 | 40 | Alex Rins | Kalex | +5.649 |
| 8 | 21 | Frank MORBIDELLI | Kalex | +6.249 |
| 9 | 30 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | Kalex | +6.280 |
| 10 | 77 | Dominique AEGERTER | Kalex | +6.322 |
| 11 | 11 | Sandro CORTESE | Kalex | +6.720 |
| 12 | 24 | Simone COURSES | Speed Up | +7.659 |
| 13 | 44 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | Kalex | +7.718 |
| 14 | 52 | Danny Kent | Kalex | +7.745 |
| 15 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Kalex | +8.046 |
| 16 | 73 | Alex MARQUEZ | Kalex | +9.300 |
| 17 | 60 | Julian SIMON | Speed Up | +10.410 |
| 18 | 23 | Marcel SCHROTTER | Kalex | +11.585 |
| 19 | 88 | Ricard CARDUS | Suter | +11.654 |
| 20 | 42 | Federico FULIGNI | Kalex | +14.739 |
| 21 | 70 | Robin MULHAUSER | Kalex | +15.089 |
| 22 | 14 | Ratthapark WILAIROT | Kalex | +15.098 |
| 23 | 57 | Edgar PONS | Kalex | +21.012 |
| 24 | 32 | Isaac VIÑALES | Tech 3 | +21.734 |
| 25 | 33 | Alessandro TONUCCI | Kalex | +30.005 |
| 26 | 2 | Jesko RAFFIN | Kalex | +50.423 |
