Czech’s Moto2 Home Hero Celebrates A Podium Finish
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Moto2 lit up the tarmac in Brno for their 9th round of the season. Here’s how the Czech Grand Prix evolved this Sunday.
Race Recap:
At lights out pole sitter David Alonso retained his lead into turn one with the rest of the field filing through absent of any first lap incidents for our grid. The first couple laps saw the field ever changing with each rider jostling for track position to then settle into a rhythm and look after their tyres.
A long lap penalty for Ivan Ortola carried from his collision in Balaton Park usually means a rider loses a few places but not for Ortola. He kept his second place and went hunting for lead rider Alonso leaving the rest of the field in the dust by setting a new lap record. This wasn’t held for long as home hero Filip Salac set a new fastest lap which was nearly a second faster than the previous year’s record.
Aron Canet who had been running in P22 has recently been struggling to get the race results we have been used to in the past and this race was no different with the Spanish rider crashing out of the Grand Prix on Lap 8 at Turn 8.
Flips Salac continued his charge and went from fifth to third in one overtake past Agius and Guevara. Not long later Agius lost his right knee pad putting him at a disadvantage when turning into corners leaving him P6 when the flag fell.
By Lap 14 there was a three way fight for the win which would go down to the last corner. David Alonso, who had led for the majority of the race, was divebombed into the final corner by Ortola who ended up taking away Alonso’s chance for gold (after nearly a year's wait since his last in Hungary 2025) and clinching his maiden win in Moto2. Salac kept his third place to join the pair on the podium in front of his home fans - a special moment for the American Racing Rider.
Championship Standing after the Czech Grand Prix
P1 - M. Gonzalez 165.5pts
P2 - I. Guevara 115pts
P3 - C. Vietti 109pts
P4 - S. Agius 107pts
P5 - D. Alonso 91pts
P6 - D. Holgado 85pts
P7 - I. Ortola 77.5pts
P8 - F. Salac 66pts
P9 - A. Lopez 57.5pts
P10 - D. Muñoz 45pts
P11 - C. Veijer 41.5pts
P12 - T. Arbolino 37.5pts
P13 - A. Escrig 33pts
P14 - B. Baltus 28pts
P15 - J. Roberts 27pts
P16 - J. Antonio Rueda 19pts
P17 - D. Öncü 15.5pts
P18 - A. Canet 13.5pts
P19 - A. Huertas 12pts
P20 - Z. Vd Goorbergh 9pts
P21 - A. Fernandez 8.5pts
P22 - A. Sasaki 8pts
P23 - L. Lunette 7pts
P24 - S. Garcia 5pts
P25 - T. Furasato 4pts
P26 - M. Aji 3pts
P27 - M. Ramirez 0pts
P28 - U. Orradre 0pts
P29 - J. Navarro 0pts
P30 - D. Foggia 0pts
P31 - J. Roulstone 0pts
P32 - A. Piqueras 0pts
P33 - X. Zurutuza 0pts
P34 - M. Pawelec 0pts
Article written by Alice Seager ©️Alice Seager 2026
