Arbolino’s victory in just eight laps

The deluge announced throughout the weekend in Thailand was brought down five minutes before the Moto2 race was scheduled to start, upending the Grand Prix. They started after a long delay. They managed just eight laps, which ultimately proved impossible, giving Italian Tony Arbolino the win ahead of Czechs Salak and Alon Kane.With two-thirds not completed, half of the points are split and Augusto Fernández in seventh behind Ogura maintains a 1.5-point lead.

Once race direction has removed the ‘wet race’ sign and the race has started on the grid, the rider’s helmet visor and mechanics will change the bike and wheel settings. Even Sergio Garciadorus came to cooperate with GasGas Aspar by bringing his tires onto the grid for his teammate Rain. All were delayed, so the race was shortened to 16 laps.

The forecast for the dry season was for Idemitsu Team Asia’s Chantra and Ogura to double, but for the wet, it was a lottery because they hadn’t run in the wet all weekend. Chantra stayed in the lead of the race from pole ahead of Alonso Lopez, already opening an inch-two gap in the middle of the circuit, with Canetto, who started from 18th on the grid, fourth. The rain got heavier and the race became very important.

Local hero Chantra crashed out on lap two, leaving Lopez and Cane in the lead. Pedro Acosta said in these impracticable circumstances he dropped to 17th. On lap four, Canet took over from Lopez. Two laps later, Salak overtook Kanet to start the race, with the two riders looking for their first Moto2 victory. But Arbolino behind them has already called for a comeback, and nine times from the end he has already outpaced Kane.

Ogura and Fernandez held the lead with a 4 second lead over 6th and 7th.

Just as Arbolino went wide on lap eight to take the lead, Salak Race Direction raised the red flag. A five-lap sprint his race and a new starting procedure on the grid according to his seventh lap passage, as his two thirds of the race were not completed. However, it was impossible to regain it and after the second red flag the race was over.

As for the rest of the Spaniards, Alonso Lopez was fifth, Fernandez seventh, Arenas 14th, Acosta 16th, Jorge Navarro 20th and Ramirez 23rd.