Marko Hanželic
Portuguese driver Miguel Oliveira is on his own 150. start at the Grand Prix in the elite MotoGP class won for the first time. In a real thriller with a red flag and a restart, he decided the race in his favor in the last turn, when, according to the principle where two quarrel, he has a third win, he took advantage of the duel between Paul Espargaro in Jack Miller, both of whom left the ideal line.
The driver of team Tech-3-KTM took the opportunity and overtook them, thus securing not only his premier victory in the elite class, but also his first victory for KTM's satellite team. Tech 3. Miller he had to settle for second place in the end. Asparagus after two races without points, he was happy with third place this time.
"I am overwhelmed by incredible emotions!" he said Olive tree after his victory at Spielberg. “I would like to say so much now, but I can’t do that. Above all, I would like to thank everyone who has always believed in me. To my family, my team, my sponsors and all the fans in Portugal. ”
"This is a historic day for me and for my homeland," added the race winner, recalling the fact that none Portuguese has not yet won a race in the Royal MotoGP class. “I couldn’t be happier, especially since I won the home race for KTM and Red Bull. Thank you! ”
Before the start: Threatening clouds over Red Bull Ringo
Before you begin 900. grand prizes in the history of MotoGP they have been over Red Bull Ringo gathering dark clouds. With 23 degrees Celsius air temperature and 37 degrees Celsius asphalt surface, conditions were colder than the day before. In the pits, the teams were already preparing motorcycles for the eventual Flag-to-Flag race. At the start, all drivers took their seats with dry track settings.
He pulled the fastest from the start Joan mir, which is before Asparagus turned into the first bend. Miller continued the race in third place after a good start. By mistake Asparagus came in second, and the same succeeded Nakagami.
It's in front Miller took the lead after breaking through before Mira. The shoulder injury at this early stage of the race clearly did not hinder the Australian. The order after three rounds was thus Miller, Mir, Nakagami, Espargaro, Rins, Dovizioso, Vinales, Oliveira, Binder, Rossi.
When the fifth round started, it was Mir took the lead again. Nevertheless, the fastest times during this period of the race were driven by someone else, namely Johann zarco, which started from the pits. Despite the fast laps, he managed to gain only one place by then and leave his teammate behind. Tito Rabata.
More back than forward he “progressed” fabio quartararo, who, similarly to training, had trouble braking and soon fell out of the top ten. The only racer Yamaha among the top ten he was so Maverick Vinales in seventh place. Valentino Rossi was 11th, Franco Morbidelli only in 16th place.
Dovizioso lost duels with KTM racers
Joan mir he was still leading when two exciting duels developed behind him, namely between Miller in Nakagami on one and Asparagus ter Rinsom on the other hand. In sixth place, he fought for the connection Andrea Dovizioso, but after ten laps he was already more than a second behind the top five.
Then it is Dovizioso lost another place as he overtook him Brad Binder, who broke through from thirteenth to sixth place in just 13 rounds. Shortly afterwards, he overtook the Italian again Miguel Oliveira and for the driver Ducati the dream of a second victory at Spielberg was slowly fading.
It went even worse Maverick Vinales, who apparently had technical difficulties and fell to thirteenth place as a result, but was able to continue. But soon after that he had Sleep much bigger problems that make him in the first turn of the seventeenth round at 227 km / h jumped off a motorcyclebecause they are obvious to him completely failed the brakes.
His Yamaha M1 it crashed into a safety fence without a driver and started burning. The accident triggered a whirlwind red flags. The race was suspended, much like the previous weekend, to be removed damaged motorcycle and replaced the safety fence.
Restart: Peace without options with used tires
Dirka. debt of the remaining twelve rounds, started on the basis of the ranking in the sixteenth round: Peace, Nakagami, Miller (first row), Espargaro, Rins, Binder (second type), Oliveira, Dovizioso, Lecuona (third row). zarco started the second race from 17th place and there were a lot more motorcycles to be seen on the track with soft tires as before.
Mir also had the best start in the second, but was soon attacked again by Miller and overtaken. The second start was the most unfortunate Nakagami, which fell to seventh place, also for Binder, Oliveira in Dovizioso.
As the graphics revealed soon after the race resumed, it did Mir returned to the track with a used middle front tire while Miller vehicles on fresh “soft”. The question arose as to whether the used tire would last another ten laps.
Definitely Mir could not keep up with Miller. Also Asparagus in Olive tree on the KTMs they overtook the Spaniards. So peace was only in fourth place, and they were already pushing behind Goodbye, Binder in Nakagami. Miller he was already amazed Asparagus behind his back, but the Spaniard could not pass at first.
On the second attempt in the 9th corner, he is a team racer KTM finally came by, but did Miller he could not shake. He was getting closer to the leading duo as well Miguel Oliveira. Behind them, they tried to keep the connection Dovizioso in Mir. The Ducati driver made quite a few minor mistakes in the final laps, nullifying his chance to get on the podium.
It's at the beginning of the last round Asparagus still leading, but in the fourth turn Miller attacked. Real showdown happened in turns 9 and 10 when Asparagus attacked again Miller, both left the ideal line and made it possible Oliveirato break through in front of both and win.
Joan mir, who sovereignly led the race before the break, had to settle for fourth place after the restart. Dovizioso he finished fifth, with up to ten more Rins, Nakagami, Binder, Rossi in lecuona. That means all the drivers of both teams KTM ranked in the top ten this race weekend.
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