Jake Dixon aims to get on the podium for the first time at the Japanese GP to forget two difficult weekends

Motegi is the next stop for Moto2, a category in which Ai Ogura has consolidated his lead in the last two GPs. The Japanese rider travels to his home race with a 42-point lead over Sergio García. Ogura leads the World Championship only since the San Marino GP, but the results of his main rival, who has not scored points in the last two races, have allowed him to get away and build up a margin big enough to face the end of season with a more relaxed strategy. In addition, García now also sees his second position threatened, as Aron Canet and Alonso López are tied just ten points off him, while Joe Roberts is 13 points off. After fifteen GPs, Ogura has become the favourite for the tittle, but there are still five more races to go and in Moto2, with the great evenness that reigns every weekend, it has already been shown that every weekend, anything can happen.

CFMOTO Inde Aspar travels to Japan with the aim of achieving a great result and closing the first triple-header with a good taste. Jake Dixon has fond memories of the Japanese GP, where he has ended just off the podium in the last two editions. This weekend, Dixon wants to break that ceiling and return to the podium after two difficult GPs. After the race in Indonesia, the British is in eighth position in the standings, 78 points off the leader, but only 26 off the top 3, a gap that he will try to reduce in order to finish the season among the best in the category. His teammate Izan Guevara arrives in Japan after completing his best race of the year in Indonesia. The CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team rider wants to end the season fighting for a top ten finish in every race and, to do so, he knows he needs to improve his grid position. Motegi is a track where he excelled in his only visit in Moto3, when he achieved a victory that catapulted him to the title, and where he scored points last year in his Moto2 debut.

Jake Dixon: “Motegi is a track that I like, in which I have fun and where last year we ended in fourth position. I am looking forward to it and see what we can do”. 

Izan Guevara: “We need to improve our qualifying result. We need to get into Q2 and try to finish in the top ten. In Moto3 I won with a bent chassis and now, in Moto2, I think I can fight to be at the front.”