GASGAS Aspar Team rider Jake Dixon will fight to secure third place in the World Championship with a good result in Qatar

As Pedro Acosta has already written his name as the 2023 Moto2 World Champion, and Tony Arbolino has also secured the Moto2 runner-up position, the attention is now focused on the third position in the championship, for which four riders are still competing. British rider Jake Dixon is the best placed in this fight in which the winner of the last two races, Fermín Aldeguer; Aron Canet and Thai Somkiat Chantra also take part. Aldeguer and Canet are 21 and 24 points off Dixon, meaning the GASGAS Aspar Team rider has to achieve five and two points more than each of them in Qatar to secure the third position.

One year and eight months after the last grand prix in Qatar, the GASGAS Aspar Team riders return to the Asian country ready to continue fighting for their goals. Dixon's is third place in the championship, now that second position is already out of reach. The only result that would allow him to secure it without depending on other riders’ result would be victory. If not, different combinations that would include Aldeguer, Canet and even Chantra will decide if he achieves it in Qatar or if he moves the battle, with fewer rivals, to the last stage of the season. For Izan Guevara it is the last Grand Prix in unknown territory on a Moto2 since in Valencia he was able to test the bike at the end of November last year, just after becoming Moto3 world champion. The Spanish rider’s objective will once again be to keep working along the same lines as the last few races to continue an upward progression that had already taken him to back-to-back top 10 results. Only the crash in the last free practice in Malaysia could stop this. Guevara started the race in Sepang with pain due to the small fibula fracture he had and was unable to finish the race due to another crash, this time without physical consequences, when he was trying to make up positions.

Jake Dixon: “I want to fight for the podium again in Qatar. We have already had a few races without one and I think that both me and the team deserve it. We must keep working and, in the end, we will achieve our objectives.”

Izan Guevara: “In Qatar we will try to continue along the same lines with which we faced the Malaysian GP before the crash. We are working well and giving our best and soon better results will come.”