Jake Dixon travels to Austria, where he was on the podium last year, with the intention of forgetting the feelings of the home grand prix 

It was not necessary to complete the first half of the season to detect who would be the main favourites in the intermediate category in 2023. Since the beginning of the year, Pedro Acosta and Tony Arbolino alternated at the top of the podium in six of the first seven races and they achieved a points advantage that, although it is not insurmountable for the rest of the riders, it is starting to feel so. Although they have accumulated two consecutive races without winning, two grands prix in which the Tensite GASGAS Aspar rider Jake Dixon and the Spaniard Fermín Aldeguer have had their maiden win, both Acosta and Arbolino have an advantage of 50 or more points over their pursuers. They are two races ahead of them, with the possibility of having two mistakes without losing his privileged position. "Mistakes" such as those of Arbolino, seventh and tenth in the last two races, which have made him go from being the leader with a 15-point advantage when leaving Germany, to now being second, two points behind the Spaniard, who arrives at a circuit in which he has already won when he was competing in the Rookies Cup or in Moto3. 

Tensite GASGAS Aspar reaches the middle of the season with Jake Dixon in third position in the World Championship and with Izan Guevara working on his adaptation to the intermediate category after having shone in Moto3. The British rider faces the tenth race week of the year with the main objective of leaving behind the Silverstone race, a grand prix in which he was unable to shine due to a crash in the early stages. His teammate Izan Guevara will fight this weekend to continue with the good feelings with which he left the British GP, where on Saturday he finished fourth in the last free practice. The Spanish rider has set himself the goal of fighting for the points positions tto continue progressing in Moto2. 

Jake Dixon: “We haven't lost many points to the front runners, the gap is still similar to before the British Grand Prix and although it wasn't the ideal result, I know we were quick in all conditions and that's what we are going to try to do again this week in Austria.” 

Izan Guevara: “At Silverstone we were completing a good weekend until the race, which makes us arrive in Austria with good expectations. I think that these days we will be able to continue progressing, that is the important thing. I'm looking forward to fighting for the top 15 now and starting to score points.”