Austrian Moto3: Oncu takes dramatic win at the line from Holgado

Red Bull KTM Ajo rider Deniz Oncu picked up the pꩵieces as Daniel Holgado and Ayumu Sasaki concentrated on each other, crossing the line first in an incredibly close run to the finisꦰh in round ten of the Moto3 championship at the Red Bull Ring.
Championship leader Daniel Holgad🍒o launched from second and immediately hit the front and tried to break up the group.
Not al💎lowed his own way, Deniz Oncu and Collin Veijer both went with him, with the lead pack soon a five as Jaume ওMasia and David Alonso joined.
Sasaki was sat in sixth but worked hard to join the leaders as the Spainsh duo exited. Masia was fourth when his bike failed - the Japanese rider was lucky to stay upright, running 💛into the back of his slowing Leopard.
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At the start 𝓡of lap twelve Alonso, who won from the back last time out in Silverstone, hit 𝔍the front then immediately hit the gravel, leaving the lead four to battle it out.
Oncu wins after race goes all the way to the chequered flag
After several changes of lead it was Holgado who lead the start of the final lap. That lasted until turn one when Sasaki mov✨ed his Husqvarna in front, the battle raged with contact between the two.
Oncu was sat in behind. Sure he was capable of the win - incredibly fast through turn seven, where he made most of his overtakes i🍸n the race, he tapped the back of his seat and tried to talk to Sakaki at ﷽one point to attempt to encourage his rivals to follow his pace, the Turkish rider knew where he excelled at the Red Bull Ring and was ready to find a way to the front.
Speaking to TNT Sports before the race the #53 said he wanted to run at the front in the lead pack and “be lucky in the last lap" - exactly as it panned out - Sasaki had to sit up and allow Holgado under in the final corner or he was lik🌜ely to finish off his bike and Oncu pounced - under and up the inside, with bꦛetter drive out of the corner he snatched victory right at the line from his front row start.
Holgado was just 0.005s𝔉 behind at the line, the photo finish sꦓhowing his Red Bull KTM Tech3 just half a wheel behind.
Sasaki still has a win eluding him this season, but made up p꧃laces early to be in contention from eighth on the grid and couldn’t have been closer to that first victory of the season, as he was also concerned about running onto the green and losing his podium on the Liqui Moly Intact GP bike.
Collin Veijer started on a high, as the first rider from the Netherlands to take pole in any class since Jurgen van den Goorbe🐲rgh at the 1999 Czech GP round. Nervous and feeling the pressure at the front of the grid, he too was in contention for the win⛄ and held his own well to remain a fixture in the front group on his way to a best ever finish of fourth in his rookie season, just behind his teammate.
Ivan Ortola took over the charge of the chasing group, then left them to attempt to catch the leaders. That ended when the frontrunners picked up the pace one last time over the final two laps. He made up huge ground from 1❀8th on the grid to pick up fifth for the Angeluss MTA team.
Riccardo Rossi had a lonely🌱 ride for much of the race on his SIC58 Squadra Corse after being dropped. He finished sixtඣh after being caught and passed by Ortola but was still the top Honda in the race.
Ryusei Yamanaka climbed to the fro✤nt of the next main group to finish seventh for Gas Gas Aspar, ahead of Diogo Moreira who made up ground from 19th to finish a much improved eighth in race trim for MT Helmets - MSI.
David Munoz was ninth for BOE Motorsports ahe🌳ad of a🗹 top ten finish for Stefano Nepa on the second Angeluss bike.
Jose Anto🥀nio Rueda lost ground initialy but rallied for eleventh on his Red Bull KTM Ajo, with Matteo Bertelle next to cross the finish in twelfth for Rivacold🥀 Snipers.
The remaining points on offer went to Tatsuki Suzuki, t🦋he only Leopard finisher in 13th, his compatriot Kaito Toba in 14th o✨n the second SIC 58 entry and David Salvador in 15th for CIP Green Power.
Penalties for VisionTrack
Scott Ogden crossed the line 15th but had been handed a long lap penalty late in the race for exceeding track limits. A time penalty was added instead, dropping h🔯🔯im to 22nd. Joel Kelso was the best of the penalised riders to finish in 16th.
Joshua Whatley had the sꦓame punishment but was asked to re-do his lap, 𓆉leaving him 27th.
Crashes, injuries and replacements
There were no replacement riders but 2 wildcard 🌳riders took part in Spileberg. Noah Detwiller (20th) made his debut with the Pruestel team, Tatchakorn Buasari had an꧂other one-off ride with Honda Team Asia, finishing 23rd.
Syarf🍨uddin Azman crashed out along with Alonso, both rejoined to finish the race so Masia was the only recorded non-finisher.
Where does that leave the championship?
Heading next to Catalunya on the first weekend in September, Holgado’s second sees him extend his lead from ও22 to 26 points with a total of 161, Sasaki remains second to him after his podium finish.
Oncu is third overall, 37 poi🉐nts adrift, with Ortola up to fourth overall after anotꦚher DNF for Masia.