Moto2 Assen: Pol Espargarò wins the Dutch Grand Prix after a good duel with Scott Redding

Second consecutive victory, the third of the year for Pol Espargarò, rider of Team Pons, already victorious in the opening race in Losail and in the last GP held in Barcelona. Aleix's brother, rider of the Aspar MotoGP Team, won after a beautiful duel with world championship leader Scott Redding, who eventually surrendered to rider #40. On the podium to the joy of Switzerland is Dominque Aegerter, riding the Suter of Team Technomag carXpert.

A race to forget for the Italian colours. The best of ours is Alex de Angelis from San Marino, sixteenth, while Mattia Pasini finished in nineteenth position. Simone Corsi instead fell. Now in the world championship standings, Redding's lead over Espargarò has decreased to 30, while Rabat is further behind at 48.

Race report

The Moto2 class riders are ready to compete in the Dutch Grand Prix, seventh stage of the 2013 world championship, which will be held on the historic Assen circuit. Pole position for the home rider Polyccio Espargarò (the second in a row, the third of the season), riding the Kalex of Team Pons. Aleix's brother, rider of the Aspar MotoGP Team, who rides an ART CRT, will have next to him in the front row the Frenchman Johann Zarco, on Suter of the Came Iodaracing Team and the world championship leader Scott Redding, riding the Marc VDS Kalex Racing Team.

Second row for Esteve Rabat (riding the second Kalex of Team Pons), for the Belgian Xavier Simeon (Kalex of Team Desguaces La Torre Maptaq) and for the Australian Anthony West, on Speed ​​Up of the QMMF Racing Team.

The best of ours is Mattia Pasini, seventh on the Speed ​​Up of Team NGM Mobile. His teammates Simone Corsi and Alex de Angelis are in twelfth and seventeenth position respectively. Japanese Team Italtrans member Takaaki Nakagami will not take part in the race, having fractured his left collarbone in a fall during the Warm Up.

All ready, 24 laps to go for 109.008 km. Sixteen degrees in the air and eighteen on the asphalt. Toni Elias falls in the Warm Up Lap, the race ended before it started for the Spaniard who was world champion in this category with Team Gresini. The traffic lights go out, the fastest at the start is poleman Polyccio Espargarò, followed by Redding, Rabat, Zarco, Simeon, Aegerter, Corsi and Kallio. Mattia Pasini is eleventh.

It's a great battle right away, Redding takes the lead, but the positions change constantly. The first lap is about to end, we reach the last chicane before the finishing straight, a millimetric attack from Espargarò who regains first position.

The first lap ends with Espargarò ahead of Redding, Rabat, Simeon, Aegerter, Zarco, Corsi, Kallio, West and Simon. Mattia Pasini and Alex de Angelis are in eleventh and fourteenth position.

Aegerter seems to be the most "dangerous" of the leading group, unleashed with the Suter of Team Technomag carXpert. Beautiful battle up front, the group is compact, but unfortunately Simone Corsi falls, remaining in the middle of the track for a few seconds in a dangerous situation. Fortunately no one "catches" him and at least the Roman from Team NGM Mobile does not suffer any physical consequences.

Meanwhile, his team-mate Alex de Angelis is going strong, now eleventh, while Mattia Pasini is starting to "pay" for the bad high-side of the Warm Up, and is now nineteenth. Aegerter takes the lead up front, the Swiss takes advantage of a double mistake by Espargarò and Redding to put his Suter ahead of everyone.

However, the Briton and the Spaniard are not there, as they overtake the Swiss, now third and ahead of Rabat, slightly behind with the second Kalex of Team Pons. The first two have now extended their lead over Rabat (who overtook Aegerter) is more than a second and a half, while they are closing in on the Swiss Johann Zarco, now fifth with the Suter of the Came Iodaracing Team.

With five laps to go the first two are the only ones to lap under one minute and 39, while Zarco is getting closer and closer to Rabat; the two compete for the third step of the podium. Last km of the race, the last lap begins, a beautiful duel between Espargarò and Redding who had two victories each before Assen. Espargarò is in the lead, going on to win the third race of 2013 ahead of the world championship leader and the Swiss Dominique Aegerter.