ROAD RACE
FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 10 / AUGUST 14, 2016
RED BULL RING / SPIELBERG, AUSTRIA
P60
Moto3
FIRST TIME'S
A CHARM
Rookie Joan Mir (Leopard KTM)
took a career-first pole at the
expense of a hitherto dominant
title leader Brad Binder (Red Bull
KTM), who complained his fast
lap had been blocked, and Enea
Bastianini (Gresini Honda).
They finished a typically frantic
race in exactly the same order,
after plenty more banging and
shoving in the closing laps.
The three of them had done
most of the leading, and Binder
most of that, but it was typical
Moto3, with plenty of shuffling, and
both Fabio Quartararo (Leopard
KTM) and Philipp Oettl (Schedl
KTM) taking turns up front.
The lead group was still
10-strong as they approached
half distance, but thereafter the
five of them broke clear, and
duked it out to the finish.
Binder looked the strongest,
but the track offered opportuni-
ties for crazy late braking, and
in the end he just lost out to the
Spanish teenager.
Quartararo was fourth and
Oettl fifth, all covered by six-
tenths of a second.
While senior Mahindra rider
Pecco Bagnaia had started
strongly but then dropped back,
his younger teammate Jorge
Martin pushed through to sixth,
and held on to the end, very nar-
rowly from rookie Bo Bendsney-
der (Red Bull KTM), with Fabio
Di Giannantonio (Gresini Honda)
just off the back; two thou-
sandths ahead of Nicolo Bulega
(Sky VR46 KTM) and Livio Loi
(RW Honda), who had come
through impressively in the wake
of Jorge Navarro (EG Honda).
Bagnaia was inches behind Loi
in 11th.
And Navarro? The erstwhile
title challenger had qualified a
lowly 17th and pushed through to
within reach of the lead group,
only to crash out.
Guevara, Locatelli, Herrera
and Ono took the rest of the
points; returned injury victim Nic-
colo Antonelli (Ongetta Honda)
was 18th. Romano Fenati (Sky
VR46 KTM) did not start, after
being suspended by his team.
Binder again stretched his
points lead. He has 179, Navarro
112. Fenati (93) is under threat
from Bagnaia (90); Bulega (82)
likewise from Bastianini (81). CN
MotoGP
1. Andrea Iannone (Ducati)
2. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati)
3. Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha)
4. Valentino Rossi (Yamaha)
5. Marc Marquez (Honda)
Moto2
1. Johann Zarco (Kalex)
2. Franco Morbidelli (Kalex)
3. Alex Rins (Kalex)
4. Tom Luthi (Kalex)
5. Marcel Schrotter (Kalex)
Moto3
1. Joan Mir (KTM)
2. Brad Binder (KTM)
3. Enea Bastianini (Honda)
4. Fabio Quartararo (KTM)
5. Phillip Oettl (KTM)
Joan Mir's (36) win is
the first for a rookie
racer this season.
