The battle for v🤡ictory had a breakaway duo at the front, with Pedro Acosta and Sergio Garcia bringing action to every lap of the Moto3 Styr💜ian Grand Prix in trecherous drying conditions at Spielberg, for an electric round ten of the championship.

Turn three brought th🏅e mos🔴t action as over and over the Red Bull KTM Ajo rider rehearsed his final lap overtake, only to have Garcia take him straight back every time.

That saw the race go to the wire, with the same result at that turn on the final lap. Acosta a♏pplied 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 w𓆉as 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 being hit by✅ another motorcycle in the European Talent Cup.

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

The battle for third arrived at the line shortly after, with Romano Fenꦏati, 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, aꦛnd marks back-to-b⛄ack rostrum appearances following his third place last time out in Assen.

That left Jaume Masia on the second Red Bull entry f𝔉ourth and staring at his tyres rather than take the Sterilgarda Max racing Husqvarna riders oℱffer of a handshake.

Ayumu Sasaki remained the holder of the fastest lap set in the weekend before the race and performed well in the tricky conditions for a lonely fift🤪h for Red Bull KTM Tech 3 on his return form injury.

Darryn 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 race over the cl🎃osing stages, but it was too late to catch the leaders. He picked off enough other riders to claim sixth.

The last perso﷽n he passed was Ryusei Yamanaka (CarXpert PruestelGP) w꧂ho still claimed a best ever finish of seventh.

Fellow counrtyman Yuki Kunii 𒊎also took💖 his best finish in eighth for Honda Team Asia.

Maximilian Kofler is the o🙈nly home rider on the grid in Spielberg. The CIP Green Power rideꦗr spent much of his race in sixth before fading a little in the final laps. The 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 on the second Sterilgarda Max Racing ent💮ry.

Filip Salac was next to see the cheq🦹uered 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 SIC58 Squadra Corse.

Assen winner Dennis 🍰Foggia struggled in the wet and was down in 22nd, dropping the Leopard rider one 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 the Snipers 🌜Team, David Salvador the only other faller.

Xavier Artigas missed warm-up due to an inconclusive Covid test. A second test gave a po♕sitive re💫sult, leading to him missing the race.

Niccolo Antonelli was absent from the race a🔴fter fracturing his right🌊 hand in qualifying. Carlos Tatay also took no part in the Styrian grand prix.