Inde GASGAS Aspar rider had a sore shoulder after a crash at the Australian race, but the medical checks carried out later don’t show any injury, and he will have to pass a medical check on Thursday to see if he is fit to ride

Pedro Acosta or Tony Arbolino. There is no other choice. One of these two riders will become 2023 Moto2 World Champion as Inde GASGAS Aspar rider Jake Dixon is out of the fight after not being able to score any point in Australia. Acosta had the luck of the champion at Phillip Island, that magic that always smiles on one of the candidates and in Australia it allowed him, despite the mistake on the warm-up lap, to not lose so much difference with his rival as only 50% of the points were awarded. This also means that he will arrive to Thailand with options to secure his second World Championship title and to move to MotoGP as the second Moto3 and Moto2 champion after Álex Márquez. To do so, he will need to score 19 points more than the Italian: only a win or second place would be enough, combined with Arbolino's results outside the top 10. Difficult, but not impossible.

Inde GASGAS Aspar rider Jake Dixon travels to Thailand to try to compete in Buriram after the crash he had in Australia, in which he suffered a severe blow to his right shoulder. All the medical tests carried out after the incident have been positive and don’t show any injury, and the pain in the area has gone away over time, so the British rider is now preparing for the medical test that will take place on Thursday at the Buriram circuit, where the medical officials will decide whether he is fit to compete this weekend or not. Dixon saw the last chance he had to fight for the Moto2 title slip away in Australia and now only Acosta and Arbolino are fighting for the title, but he is still in the fight to finish in the top three in the championship and will look to continue scoring points this weekend at the Thai track. In 2022, Buriram was the only circuit where the GASGAS Aspar Team could not finish on the podium. There, Dixon was fourth, just over a tenth off the third place, while Izan Guevara finished fifth in Moto3. Guevara faces now his second visit to the Thai track, his first in Moto2, after achieving in Australia his best result in the category. A sixth place at Phillip Island, with the race cancelled due to weather conditions, was a further step in his adaptation to a category in which he already has 12+1 points.

Jake Dixon: “I'm fine after the crash. On Sunday and Monday my shoulder hurt a lot, but all the medical tests I have done don’t show any kind of injury and the pain is going away, so on Thursday I will be at the circuit for the medical exam that will tell if I am fit or not to ride.”

Izan Guevara: “We come to Thailand with more confidence after the weekend at Phillip Island. The weather will be different, and we will have to adapt to it. We will work hard to keep getting good results.”