World News – UA – French Moto2: Lowes storms incredible Le Mans victory

Sam Lowes won his 100th Moto2 race with a dominant performance in the French Grand Prix at Le Mans

Sam Lowes claimed his first victory since 2016 in style as he handled the difficult to dry track of Le Mans in the closing stages of the Moto2 Grand Prix after his rival Jake Dixon escaped

The race quickly became a battle for the British up front with EG 0.0 driver Marc VDS Lowes in the lead until he locked the front, giving his compatriot the advantage

The number 22 kept the gap around the second to manage his tires behind Dixon, who has improved by leaps and bounds in recent weeks with Petronas Sprinta. His patience paid off as Lowes followed, at just four laps to go, Dixon lost the front and pulled away

Lowes then just had to maintain his lead, reasonably overlapping up front to cross the 3822 line for his fourth Moto2 victory

The three-way battle for the remaining podium places raged behind It was Remy Gardner (Onexox TKKR SAG Racing) who finished second with his last minute lunge in the last two corners of the last lap

This ousted Marco Bezzecchi who crossed the third row for Sky Racing VR46, with the unlucky Augusto Fernandez who missed a grandstand finish on Marc VDS ‘second entry

Tom Luthi (Liqui Moly Intact GP) gave it his all again on Sunday, rising to fifth place, securing his best result of the season so far

Joe Roberts entered the race with his third pole of the year under his belt, but he couldn’t convert it back – there was a tragedy even before the start of the race when the driver of Tennor American Racing was forced to start from the back of the grid after the race was declared wet and the team tried to change their tires too late

Things got worse for the American when the racing lights went green even before he made the last turn of the track after the sighting lap, declaring his race behind the still touring safety car.

Number 16 refused to give up and channeled everything he had to get the best possible result Often overtaking multiple runners in one movement, his pace matching that of the leaders, he reached sixth place by the checkered flag

Fabio Di Giannantonio used crutches in the pits after his training crash He managed to finish seventh by fighting the pain barrier for Termozeta Speed ​​Up and was the first non-Kalex rider to cross the line

Lorenzo Baldassarri took places at the end of the race to climb to eighth place for the Flexbox HP40

Enea Bastianini finished race ninth, but took a shortcut on one of the corners on the last lap The Italian was penalized with a three-second penalty, which brought him down to eleventh

The Italtrans driver made some gains in the title race anyway – an injured Luca Marini was only able to score 17th for Sky Racing VR46 as he battled the pain left by his massive training crash, reducing the ranking difference at thirteen, with Lowes and Bezzecchi is also getting closer

This lifted Somkiat Chantra (Idemitsu Honda Team Asia) to ninth place, equaling his best result in the race

Hector Garzo continued his streak in twelfth for Flexbox HP 40, keeping Marcos Ramirez (Tennor American Racing) at bay

Stefano Manzi finished 14th for Mv Agusta Forward Racing, with Hafizh Syahrin (India Aspar) scoring the last point offered

Jorge Navarro’s race was essentially over before it started after receiving a double long lap penalty for crashing in the same turn as Jorge Martin as the yellow flags acted He fell later

Jorge Martin, Xavi Vierge and Andi Farid Izdhar also failed to finish Nicolo Bulega withdrew to the pits

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