It's time now, for the second Moto2 race of the season, and it's deja vu as we are back, or still in, Andalusia, in Spain, for this race. Pole position is held by #72 Marco Bezzecchi. It's red lights, out, and we're off and racing in Moto2 race number two at Jerez! A good getaway for Bezzecchi as the other riders in the back of the pack are scrambling for position already. There's a whole swarm of Moto2 riders ready to take the fight to Bezecchi on the Sky Racing VR46 bike. Bezecchi is one of the riders for the team owned by Valentino Rossi, hence the VR46 part of the team name. Jockeying for positions already is happening, as we move to the first turn on the first lap of 23 scheduled for this race. Everyone seems to be through the first few corners cleanly. They fly onto the back straight for the first time. Marco Bezzechi leads Enea Bastianinni and Luca Marini.
Marini takes a peak to the outside but thinks better of it. Nope. He still wants it. Bastianinni has challengers on all sides. Marini and Bezzechi are both right there and they want to sandwich the Italtrans Racing Team rider. Marini and Bezzechi are both on VR46 Sky Racing bikes. Bastianinni isn't taking the heat sitting down. He's fighting back and opening a lead, or trying to get away from the Marini/Bezzechi duo. The bikes all run single file and we are now on lap four. #22 Sam Lowes, #88 Jorge Martin, and #9 Jorge Navarro are all pushing hard. A Brit and a couple of Spaniards, scrapping for position.
Martin and Navarro and now nose to tail. Whoops! We have a crash in turn nine. This has been calamity corner. We did see a spill at this turn in the MotoGP race. Lap ten, and we are trying to see who the rider who fell, was. I think it was Navarro who was just in the battle for position that was being described. Jorge Navarro has ditched his motorcycle. The marshals attend to the bike and Navarro is fine, but he's out of this race. Turn eight on lap ten, and it's a battle for the lead of this motorcycle race. Turn nine is earning it's name as calamity corner. We've got another rider down on the deck. Can't tell who it is. Trying to get a read on the leathers and what the sponsorship says.
It's one of the Hewlett Packard/Flex Box riders. It is one of the bikes for the Flexi Box HP 40 team. It's either #7 Lorenzo Baldassari from Italy, or #40, Hector Garzo, from Spain. That #40 bike has become famous in Moto2. A lot of riders who have moved on to MotoGP have ridden that number and that particular team's bike. Not much else has happened in this race. It's a near wire to wire victory for Enea Bastianini on the #33 Italtrans Racing Team Kalex Moto2 bike. The celebratory wheelie and the slam of the fuel tank, and Bastianini celebrates! Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
#33 Enea Bastianini ITA. Italtrans Racing Team Kalex
So, a fairly quick Moto2 race is done and dusted. Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi round out the podium places. Tetsuta Nagashima remains in the points lead with 50 points, just two ahead of Bastianini, who gains more with his win, and Luca Marini, five points behind in third. 50, 48, 45, the points tallies for the top three in points in Moto2, headed to the next event at Brno in the Czech Republic in a couple weeks. Excited to bring that race to you. See you soon, for more Moto2 racing, right here on 2 Wheelin'. Bye bye, for now.
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