MOTOGP
FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 2 / MARCH 29-31, 2019
TERMAS DE RIO HONDO CIRCUIT / TERMAS DE RIO HONDO, ARGENTINA
P78
Qatar race winner Toba
retains a narrow champion-
ship lead from Dalla Porta and
Masia, with 31, 29 and 25 points
respectively. CN
MotoGP
1. Marc Marquez (Hon)
2. Valentino Rossi (Yam)
3. Andrea Dovizioso (Duc)
4. Jack Miller (Duc)
5. Alex Rins (Suz)
Moto2
1. Lorenzo Baldassarri (Kal)
2. Remy Gardner (Kal)
3. Alex Marquez (Kal)
4. Iker Lecuona (KTM)
5. Marcel Schrotter (Kal)
Moto3
1. Jaume Masia (KTM)
2. Darryn Binder (KTM)
3. Tony Arbonilo (Hon)
4. Niccolo Antonelli (Hon)
5. Ayumu Sasaki (Hon)
last lap and dropped to sev-
enth. Others on the downside
included erstwhile leader John
McPhee (Petronas Honda),
who collided and took out EG
Honda's Alonso Lopez while bat-
tling to stay in the gang with rear
brake problems, and pointless
Romano Fenati (Snipers Honda),
whose gamble on a soft rear tire
played him foul.
Fourth to seventh went to
Hondas, ridden by Nico Antonelli
(Snipers Honda), Ayumu Sasaki
(Petronas Honda), Rodrigo and
Dalla Porta. Dennis Foggia (SKY
VR46 KTM) was eighth, after
also coming through from 22nd
on the grid, and leading for one
lap. Marcos Ramirez (Leopard
Honda) and Kaito Toba (Honda
Team Asia) completed the top
ten, with Migno, Canet, Suzuki,
rookie Vietti and Fernandez tak-
ing the rest of the points.
emotional parc-ferme.
Binder was more matter-of-
fact. "I got squashed out a bit
in the last corner, and I only
managed to pass one of them,
not both. But … next race!" The
younger brother of former Moto3
champion Brad led for the first
time on lap nine after forging
through from the seventh. The
Hondas were visibly faster down
the straight, but his late braking
at the end of it was a high point
of an exciting race.
Front-row starter Tony Ar-
bolino (Snipers Honda) was
third after a last-corner tangle
dropped home hero Gabriel
Rodrigo (Gresini Honda) from
third to sixth.
There was disappointment
also for erstwhile leader Lorenzo
Dalla Porta (Leopard Honda)
who fell foul of Binder at the
end of the back straight on the
Last lap, last corner, and Jaume Masia (5) comes out
with the winning lotto ticket in Moto3.
