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he reversed a last-corner attack
by teammate Franco Morbidelli
to claim second, and his first
podium in Moto2.
Marquez led into the first
corner, but Lowes blasted past
before the lap was half done,
and stretched away without
pause to win by better than three
seconds.
Baldassari finished lap one
third, but Thomas Luthi (Ga-
rage Plus Kalex) was charging
through from the back of a tight
pursuit pack and was third by lap
three. All the while Zarco was
getting shuffled backward, while
Rins—10th on lap one—was edg-
ing forward, and already ahead
Moto2
The championship got another
injection of tension at Aragon, as
Briton Sam Lowes regained a lot
of lost ground with a dominant
win, his second of the season,
while defending champion Jo-
hann Zarco lost another crucial
couple of points to the strength-
ening challenge from Alex Rins.
While Lowes (Federal Oils
Kalex) was simply unbeatable all
weekend, the other pair was left
behind in the middle of a top-10
battle. Rins (Paginas Amarillas
Kalex) was battling illness and a
poor 13th-place qualifying posi-
tion and Zarco (Ajo Kalex) had
another off-form weekend.
Rins came out on top, push-
ing through early on then nar-
rowly clinging on to head the
quartet disputing sixth. Zarco
had started from row two, but
dropped back as far as 10th,
only moving forward gradually
as he (as usual) gained strength
on used tires, finishing eighth,
just four-tenths behind Rins, with
Misano winner Lorenzo Baldas-
sari (Forward Kalex) sandwiched
between them.
They go to the flyaways with
Zarco just one point clear, hav-
ing been 34 ahead just four
races ago.
There was joy also for Alex
Marquez (EG-VDS Kalex), when
Alex Marquez was thrilled to get on the Moto2 podium for the first time.
