Alcañiz (Spain) (AFP)
South Africa's Brad Binder (KTM) on Sunday won the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix, while Alex Marquez (Kalex) won his third place in the championship with a 38-point lead over five races of the term.
This is the 2nd win of the season, the 5th in Moto2, for Binder, the Moto3 world champion in 2016 and who will next year MotoGP at KTM-Tech3.
He was ahead of Spaniard Jorge Navarro (SpeedUp) who, despite all his efforts, failed to catch up with him in the last lap but still took 2nd place in the provisional classification of the championship.
"We abandoned our strategy, which was to stay behind the leaders, in the third round when I saw that I had managed to dig a small gap," said the South African who crossed the line with 787 / 1000th in advance on Navarro.
"It was a big and difficult race with a lot of wind direction changes, but I'm happy for the championship," said Spaniard Alex Marquez, Marc's younger brother who had just won the MotoGP race.
The Spaniard Augusto Fernandez, winner of the two previous races, could not do better than 22nd after a fall in the first lap which made him lose a lot of time and 2nd place in the championship.
. Ranking of the Moto2 race, 14th round of the championship, played Sunday at the Aragon Motorland circuit (5,007 km)
1. Brad Binder (AFS / KTM) the 21 laps in 39: 45.177 (160.9 km / h average)
2. Jorge Navarro (ESP / SpeedUp) at 0.787
3. Alex Marquez (ESP / Kalex) at 2.876
4. Luca Marini (ITA / Kalex) at 5.387
5. Sam Lowes (GBR / Kalex) at 5.601
. Ranking of the world championship after 14 events:
1. Alex Marquez (ESP / Kalex): 213 points
2. Jorge Navarro (ESP / SpeedUp): 175
3. Augusto Fernandez (ESP / Kalex): 171
4. Thomas Lüthi (SUI / Kalex): 169
5. Brad Binder (AFS / KTM): 160
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