Asterius GASGAS Aspar riders will work to keep up the positive feelings of the last few races at the second Grand Prix at home
The second half of the season begins for the Moto2 riders, who in the first ten races of the year have also experienced two different parts. In the first one, from Portugal to France, Italian Tony Arbolino was the strongest rider. Two victories and four podiums in those five races put him in the lead, with 99 out of 125 possible points, 25 more than his main rival in 2023, Pedro Acosta. However, from Italy to Austria we have had a new stage, in which Acosta, with two victories and five podiums in a row, has recovered all the points he had lost. The Spanish rider has got 37 points more than Arbolino in the last five races and is now 12 points ahead of the Italian, who has not been on the podium since June in Germany. After Barcelona this week and San Marino in seven days, seven different flyaway races will decide the outcome of the intermediate category title.
The Asterius GASGAS Aspar riders face the second home Grand Prix of the year with the aim of keeping up with the positive feelings of the last few races. Jake Dixon has now finished in the top six in the last seven races, apart from the British Grand Prix, a consistency that has taken him to third place in the overall standings. Now, with his future with the GASGAS Aspar Team secured for 2024, the British rider will keep fighting for more podium finishes to get close to Acosta and Arbolino. His teammate, Izan Guevara, scored his first points of the season in Austria, in a Grand Prix in which he was not at 100% physically. Guevara is confident that he can continue making steps forward in Barcelona, where in 2021 he changed his method of working and began to get results that would take him to win the Moto3 World Championship in 2022.
Jake Dixon: “I start the second half of the season with my future clear for 2024. Next year I will continue working with the team in Moto2 and the aim will again be to fight for the title. This year we are third in the standings, it is true that the leader is 59 points ahead, but we will not stop fighting in the ten races we have to keep progressing and to continue with options until the end.”
Izan Guevara: “In Austria we took a big step forward and now we come to Barcelona, where in the first year in Moto3 we made a big change. We hope to do it this year in Moto2 as well. In 2022 we won the race there, and that brings back good memories. Now the objective cannot yet be the victory, but to get closer to the top 10 and continue improving. We will go step by step."