Round nineteen of the Moto2 championship, the Malaysian Grand Prix, saw Celestino Vietti return to winning wa༒ys after needing to breakaway at the front twice under pressure from super-sub Jorge Navarro at Sepang.

Vietti was third on th𝓀e grid for Red Bull KTM ajo and was like a rocket off the line, quickly hitting the front and pulling out a second.

As his front folded on the Kalex on lap six, Marcos Ramirez, who was then applyi♉ng the pressure for American Racing, found himself briefly ahead, but Vietti gathered himself and took over the lead again.

Jorge Navarro, in for Joe Roberts on the second American Racing bike, was now the rider giving chase and pulꦐled right onto the wheel before Vietti was forced into another self preservation move, sitting the Spaniard up a little and allowing the I✱talian to break again.

From there, theꦏ #13 was the clear winner, crossing the line 1,486 ahead for his third win of the season, dedicated to Valencia.

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Polesitter Navarro put so much into gaining a win for his home town of Valencia that his bike didn’t make 🎐it back to parc ferme, seemingly out of fuel. Navarro was too and looked to be suffering from heat ex𝐆haustion at the end of a humid Malaysian race.

Error by Dixon hands teammate podium.

Jake Dixon had needed to recover after he was forced to run wide - the Brit was lining up a move on 🔴Ai Ogura when his bike cutꦉ out, ending his race.

The Aspar rider, keen to get the best result possible for the Valencian team after devistating flooding in the region, was third at the start of the last lap over the line, but misjudged the end of the race - leaving his teammate Izan Guevara to pick up the pieces, taking the final rostrum spot for CFMoto RCB Aspar🌼.

It is Guevara’s 💦frist podium sice becoming Moto3 champion at Valencia in 🧸2022 and was achieved after fighting forward from eleventh on the grid quickly over the opening laps.

A devistated Dixon fought back for fourth, just ahead of Tony Arbolino, whoﷺ was chasing him down all the way to the chequered flag for Elf Marc VDS in fifth.

Ramirez faded bac𝓀k to sixth after his strong start,💛 using up a lot of tyre trying to keep in touch with Vietti.

Deniz Oncu was top rookie on the second Red Bull💫 KTM Ajo, completing a strong round for the team in seventh clear of Aron Canet, who won just last weekend in Thailand, this time finishing eight for Fantic Racing after a a late battle win Manual Gonzalez and Diogo Moreira for the position.

Somkiat Chantra battled back from 15th on the grid to move ahead of most of the rider🌸s in that group and claim a late ninth for Idemitsu Honda Team Asia, wit🐓h rookie Moreira holding onto a top ten finish.

Gonzalez was raced ou🍒t of contention, eleventh for Gresini, a second ahead of teammate Albert Arenas, who faded back 🥀to twelfth.

Alonso made up for not making it out of Q1 a little, with 13th from 20th on the grid for Speed Up, the top Boscoscuro rider in the race▨.

The remaining points on offer went to Sergio Garcia, who also did not graduate from Q1, recovering to 14th for MT Helmets - MSI in 14ﷺth and Filip Salac in 15th for Marc VDS.

Crashes, injuries and replacements

Ayumu Sasaki was ruled out before qualifying i💖n Malaysia with a wrist injury.

Polesitter and race winner in 2023 in Sepang Fermin Aldeguer is absent after breaking his wrist and ha💯ving surgery following his collision with Tony𝓡 Arbolino at the last race.

He was rep🦋laced at Speed Up by Alberto Surra who was out of the race on the first lap, caught up in the same crash as Zonta van den Goorbergh and and unawarꦇe Senna Agius on the first lap.

Harrison Voight finished his ride for Preicanos R🌱acing team, in for Daniel Munoz in the gravel shortly after.

The weekend started with two Malaysian wildcar🍸ds both with Petroans MIE Racing RW. Helmi Azman (23rd) was fit to race after he clashed with teammate Khairul Idham Pawi in qualifying, ruling out Pawi with a hand and foot fracture.

Darryn Binder also crashed out, Jeremy Alcoba sl🧔id out of contention on the very last lap of the race at the final corn༒er.

Championship Standings

Newly cꦛrowned 2024 champion Ogur🌠a did not add to his tally, the DNF leaving him on 261.

Eighth means Canet moves onto 209, with Garcia adding just🧔 a two🙈 points, staying third on 181.

Senna Agius remains top rookie despit his crash, still on ๊63, a top ten finish sees Moreira just three points behind with one race remaining.