In Moto2 action at Phillip Island, Alex Rins is the winning rider, ahead of fellow podium finishers Sam Lowes and Lorenzo Baldassarri. Takaaki Nakagami, and Xavier Simeon, rounded out the top five finishers. In places sixth through tenth, the order was Luis Salom, 2015 champion Johann Zarco, Mika Kallio, Alex Marquez, and a surprise, in the form of Randy Krummenacher. Astonishingly, there was low attrition in this event. 25 riders and bikes, finished the race. The four retirements included some major names. Jonas Folger, Sandro Cortese, Florian Alt, and Robin Mulhauser. Australian wildcard rider, Josh Hook, finished, and came home 20th.
#40 Alex Rins ESP. Kalex
In Moto3 action on the island, Miguel Oliveira won it, ahead of Efren Vazquez, and another rapidly improving rider, South Africa's Brad Binder. Jorge Navarro and Jakub Kornfeil completed the top five places. In spots six through ten came Romano Fenati, Philipp Oettl, Isaac Vinales, Alexis Masbou, and hometown favorite, Aussie, Remy Gardner (son of 500cc Grand Prix champion, Wayne Gardner).
Aussie wildcard Ollie Simpson, was the final classified finisher in 19th place, out of a field of 35 motorcycles. Attrition, was high, in this one, with four bikes not even finishing lap one, and an additional dozen retirements. That dozen included Lorenzo Dalla Porta, Danny Kent (Moto3 champ), Enea Bastianini, Andrea Locatelli, second Aussie wildcard Matt Barton, Francesco Bagnaia, Jules Danilo, John McPhee, Joan Mir, Juanfran Guevara, Andrea Migno, and Livio Loi.
The four riders who didn't even complete a solitary lap in competition, included Stefano Manzi, Gabriel Rodrigo, Darryn Binder (brother of Brad Binder), and Tatsuki Suzuki.
#44 Miguel Oliveira POR. KTM
Next up for Moto2 and Moto3, is the penultimate race of the season, along with their big brothers in MotoGP, at the Sepang circuit in Sepang, Malaysia, this coming weekend.
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