Maverick Vinale wins a masterful last lap thriller at Assen
Published on 30 Jun 2012 by Toni M.
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Assen is called the cathedral of motorcycling racing and today’s Moto3 race proved that the small class has no problems with the circuit as they offered fans a highly entertaining, sloppy and immensely battled out races of the season that saw Maverick Vinales take a masterful victory, his fourth of the season after battling it out with Sandro Cortese, Danny Kent and Louis Salom into the final turns of the race.
The lead swapped hands several times, as one of the biggest groups of riders ever seen (more than fifteen) battled it out for the top positions for almost half the race distance, before Vinales, Ajo team-mates Danny Kent and Sandro Cortese, RW’s Luis Salom and Team Germany rider Louis Rossi managed to break away from the rest of the field, but between errors and fairing bashing battles (between the Ajo team mates) the lead again changed hands so many times they were almost impossible to count.
With just two laps Vinales was leading, but an error going into turn 1 let both KTM Red Bull riders through and the battlecontinued between the four as Rossi began to fade slightly. Going into the last lap Kent was leading followed by Cortese, Vinales, and Salom. Cortese made his first move at the Ruskenhoek, while Vinales tried to grab the second spot only to find Salom taking his place and then with an incredible move moved to the front of the race on the penultimate turn but a costly error at the final chicane saw Vinales sweeping through with a slingshot move and ride across the line ahead of Sandro Cortese.
A photo finish analysis was needed to decide who got the third place between Salom and Kent, and it was the Brit who was awarded the podium taking his best ever in his GP career finish leaving a disappointed Salom in fourth.
Louis Rossi took fifth followed by Alex Rins who managed sixth after mid race error, Caretta Technology’s Alexis Masbou, Nicklas Ajo, JHK T-Shirt Laglisse’s Efrén Vázquez and Rins’ teammate Miguel Oliveira closed out the top ten.
Moto3 Assen Results:
01- Maverick Vinales – Blusens Avintia – FTR Honda M312 – 22 laps in 38’45.432
02- Sandro Cortese – Red Bull KTM Ajo Factory Team – KTM M32 – + 0.831
03- Danny Kent – Red Bull KTM Ajo Factory Team – KTM M32 – + 0.842
04- Luis Salom – RW Racing GP – KALEX KTM – + 0.843
05- Louis Rossi – Racing Team Germany – FTR Honda M312 – + 1.352
06- Alex Rins – Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 – Suter Honda MMX3 – + 5.033
07- Alexis Masbou – Caretta Technology – Honda NSF250R – + 7.817
08- Niklas Ajo – TT Motion Events Racing – KTM M32 – + 7.855
09- Efren Vazquez – JHK T-Shirt LaGlisse – FTR Honda M312 – + 8.037
10- Miguel Oliveira – Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 – Suter Honda MMX3 – + 8.243
11- Zulfahmi Khairuddin – AirAsia SIC Ajo – KTM M32 – + 8.378
12- Romano Fenati – Team Italia FMI – FTR Honda M312 – + 8.559
13- Jakub Kornfeil – Redox Ongetta Centro Seta – FTR Honda M312 – + 12.133
14- Toni Finsterbusch – Cresto Guide MZ Racing – Honda NSF250R – + 12.358
15- Hector Faubel – BANKIA Aspar Team – KALEX KTM – + 12.533
16- Arthur Sissis – Red Bull KTM Ajo Factory Team – KTM M32 – + 12.654
17- Alan Techer – Technomag CIP TSR – TSR3 Honda – + 12.837
18- Adrian Martin – JHK T-Shirt LaGlisse – FTR Honda M312 – + 12.876
19- Alberto Moncayo – BANKIA Aspar Team – KALEX KTM – + 12.944
20- Brad Binder – RW Racing GP – KALEX KTM – + 21.342
21- Isaac Vinales – Ongetta Centro Seta – FTR Honda M312 – + 21.507
22- Alessandro Tonucci – Team Italia FMI – FTR Honda M312 – + 21.581
23- Simone Grotzkyj Giorgi – Ambrogio NEXT Racing – Suter Honda MMX3 – + 38.872
24- Jasper Iwema – MOTO FGR – MOTO FGR 3 Honda – + 39.237
25- Bryan Schouten – Dutch Racing Team – Honda NSF250R – + 39.272
26- Julian Miralles – MIR Racing – MIR Racing Moto3 – + 39.377
27- Kenta Fujii – Technomag CIP TSR – TSR3 Honda – + 39.533
28- Luigi Morciano – Ioda Team Italia – Ioda TR002 – + 41.008
29- Ivan Moreno – Andalucia JHK LaGlisse – FTR Honda M312 – + 43.193
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