The battle for victory had a breakaway duo at the front, with Pedro Acosta and Sergio Garcia bringing act🍃ion to every lap of the Moto3 Styrian Grand Prix in trecherous drying conditions at Spielberg, for an electric round ten of the championship.

Turn three brought the most action as over and over the Red Bull KTM Ajo rider rehearsed his final lap overtake, only to have Garcia take him straight back eveไry time.

That saw t🧔he race go to the wire, with the same result at that turn on the final lap. Acosta applied the pressure and although there was no contact, Garcia pushed too hard to keep in touch and crashed in the final corner.

The number 37 ran wide, but no penalty was applied, leaving him to claim his fifth win in the first ten races of his rookie season, extending his championship lead to 53 points in the process,🦋 with a total of 183.

He dedicated his victory to Hugo Millan, who recently passed away after bꦜeing hit by another motorcycle in the European Talent Cup.

The gap created by the duo at the fr✱ont meant that, as he reacted so quickly to his predicament, GasGas rider Garcia was able to remount and still cross the line second, keeping him second in the title hunt to his race rival as the gravel flew when he crossed the line just over 14 seconds behind Acosta.

The battle for﷽ third arrived at the line shortly after, with Romano Fenati, who lead briefly at the start of the race thanks to a flying start off the line, managing his tyres best to claim the position at the chequered flag.

It is Fenati’s third podium of the season, and marks back-to-back rostrum appearances ♌following his third place last time out i💖n Assen.

That left Jaume Masia on the second Red Bull entry fourth and staring at his tyres rather than take the Sterilgarda Max racin൲g Husqvarna riders offer of a 𝓡handshake.

Ayumu Sasaki remained the holder o🦂f the fastest lap set in the weekend before𒁃 the race and performed well in the tricky conditions for a lonely fifth for Red Bull KTM Tech 3 on his return form injury.

Dar🎀ryn Binder was one of seven rider to take a slick tyre gamble, but it didn’t quite pay off, the Petronas Sprinta rider made the fastest laps of the ra෴ce over the closing stages, but it was too late to catch the leaders. He picked off enough other riders to claim sixth.

🌸The last person he passed was Ryusei Yamana🌠ka (CarXpert PruestelGP) who still claimed a best ever finish of seventh.

Fellow counrtyman Yuki Kunii also took his best finish in eighth for Honda Team♎ Asia.

Maximilian Kofler is the only home rider on the grid in Spielberg. The CIP Green Power rider spent much of his race in si𒈔xth before fading a little in the final laps. T🧜he Austrian still also managed a best ever finish of ninth on his return after missing three rounds with a fractured vertebrae. 

Adrian Fernandez completed the top ten ꦍon the second Sterilgarda Max Racing entry.

Filip Salac was nex𓆏t to see the chequered flag in eleventh on the second Pruestel bike, closely followed by both Kaito Toba (CIP Green Power) and John McPhee, another tyre gambler like🌠 his team-mate Binder, in 13th.

The remaining points on offer went to Izan Guevara in 14th for Santander Consumer Racing GasGas and Tatsuki Suzuki in 15th for SﷺIC58 Squadra Corse.

Assen winner Dennis Foggia struggled in the wet and was down in 22nd, dropping the Leopard rider ꦰone place in the overall standings.

Polesitter Deniz Oncu was demoted to the 🤪back of the grid as the team were working on the bike to change tyres after the three minute warning board on the grid. His found his slick tyres difficult to manage in the early stages leading to a 💎series of small mistakes. He finished 21st.

Andi Farid Izdihar crashed twice, with Alberto Surra’s replacement at th💛e Sniper♓s Team, David Salvador the only other faller.

Xavier Artigas missed warm-up⭕ due to an inconclusive Covid test. A second test gave a positive result, leading to him missing the race.

Niccolo Antonelli was absent from the race after fracturing his right hand in qualifying. Carlos🍰 Tatay also took no part in the Styrian grand prix.