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of longtime leader David Alonso (Aspar Kalex). Starting to feel improvements in the right shoulder he injured in a crash while training in May, polesitter Alonso had darted into an early lead only for Ortola to reel him in. The fact that the Spaniard had a long-lap penalty to serve for taking out Collin Veijer (Ajo Kalex) at the previous race did little to taint his victory hopes. Within three laps, he was back on Alonso's tail. Soon, Filip Salac (ART Kalex) and Senna Agius (IntactGP Kalex) joined the fun at the front, with Salac setting the fastest lap on the sixth lap. Agius' chances then took a blow when his right knee slider came off, dropping him back toward Manuel Gonzalez (IntactGP Kalex), rising from 13th thanks to a grid penalty, and Izan Gue - vara (Pramac Boscoscuro). A massive front slide at turn seven, four laps from home, saw Salac ease off and settle for a podium at home. That left Ortola to challenge. For five consecutive laps, he crossed the line less than a tenth behind Alonso. And while the Colom - bian defended successfully into the penultimate turn 13, Ortola accelerated under at the final corner to seal a brilliant last- gasp win. "It was really risky, but he left me space," he said nonchalantly of the move. Behind Salac, Agius took fourth, with Gonzalez fifth and Guevara sixth. Gonzalez's (165.5 points) lead grows to 50.5 points with Guevara (115) still second. pulled away. He then dropped three seconds to wait for Joan Mir (HRC Castrol) and Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini Ducati). That did the trick, and he repassed Mir for fifth with three to go, only for his RC16 to cruelly give up the ghost at the start of the final lap. Mir, gambling with Mi- chelin's soft rear, inherited a fine fifth, with Aldeguer sixth. Bezzecchi's (180 points) lead has been trimmed to eight points with Martin (172), Di Gi - annantonio (157) and Marquez (140) now all within range. Moto2 The record books will show that Ivan Ortola (MSI Kalex) has led just one lap in his Moto2 career. But that was enough to claim his maiden victory in the inter - mediate class, at the expense job, I think. For sure, it was a lit- tle bit a lack of race strategy, but overall, the performance was there, so I'm super, super happy. If I had this race again now, I'd push a little bit more from the beginning to open a gap over Marc and Pecco, but I couldn't manage to do it this time." Behind, Bagnaia was quickly on the defensive. Di Giannan - tonio, who'd passed Acosta for fourth, was the fastest rider on track. Setting the fastest laps the 20th and 21st time around took him to within two-tenths of a second of the podium, but Bagnaia just held on. After a spirited start, Acosta ran into front tire-pressure is - sues. His plan to raise pressure by letting Di Giannantonio by and tucking into his slipstream failed when the yellow Ducati ROUND 9 / JUNE 19-21, 2026 CREDITAS AUTODROM BRNO / BRNO, CZECHIA ROAD RACE I FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP P92 Ivan Ortola claimed his maiden victory in Moto2, leading just one lap, the important one.