Thailand Moto3: Arenas beats Dalla Porta, Canet taken out

Canet was taken out by Darryn Binder when the Australian made contact with his bike at Turn 12, sending the Spaniard, as well as John McPhee and Tatsuki Suzuki, into a crash.

It is Canet's third retirement in four races as he was hit by Arenas at Silverstone, and then had mechanical problems at Misano.

Fellow title contender Tony Arbolino also had trouble as he went wide, seemingly struggling with a hurt right hand, and dropped outside the pointscoring positions - although he recovered to 10th.

Dalla Porta meanwhile spent the entire race in the top positions, and also led into the final lap when the massive lead group broke up for the first time due to Andrea Migno barging into Marcos Ramirez at Turn 12 of the penultimate lap.

Only two riders, Alonso Lopez and Arenas, were left to challenge Dalla Porta, who survived the long straights only to be overtaken by Lopez at Turn 4.

But Lopez then went wide three corners later and at the same time Arenas passed Dalla Porta.

Dalla Porta attempted to steal the win at the last corner but ran wide on the exit and it was Arenas crossing the line first, with Dalla Porta settling for a sixth second-place finish this year.

He still benefited from Canet's and Arbolino's issues and extended his championship lead to 20 points over the former.

After hitting Ramirez, Migno then crashed while trying to overtake Ai Ogura at Turn 1, the duo retiring on the spot.

Ramirez recovered to fourth as a result with Sky VR46 duo Dennis Foggia and Celestino Vietti completing the top six.

Honda Team Asia's Kaito Toba took seventh from Stefano Nepa (Avintia), who scored his best Moto3 result in eighth.

Raul Fernandez (Angel Nieto) and Arbolino completed the top 10.

Ayumu Sasaki and Jose Julian Garcia, who replaced the injured Fenati and impressively ran inside the top 10 for most of the race in his only second Moto3 appearance, both also crashed.

Apart from Fenati, Niccolo Antonelli, Jaume Masia, Can Oncu all skipped the weekend with injuries, while Gabriel Rodrigo fractured the second metatarsal on his right foot in the morning warm-up.

Cla	Rider	Bike	Laps	Gap
1	Albert Arenas	KTM	22
2	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Honda	22	0.231
3	Alonso López	Honda	22	0.322
4	Marcos Ramirez	Honda	22	0.459
5	Dennis Foggia	KTM	22	0.666
6	Celestino Vietti Ramus	KTM	22	1.166
7	Kaito Toba	Honda	22	1.228
8	Stefano Nepa	KTM	22	6.971
9	Raúl Fernández	KTM	22	9.095
10	Tony Arbolino	Honda	22	9.145
11	Filip Salač	KTM	22	9.629
12	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	22	9.559
13	Riccardo Rossi	Honda	22	11.174
14	Sergio García	Honda	22	14.024
15	Makar Yurchenko	KTM	22	21.043
16	Davide Pizzoli	Honda	22	23.306
17	Kevin Zannoni	Honda	22	23.777
18	Kazuki Masaki	KTM	22	23.866
19	Deniz Öncü	KTM	22	55.804
20	Darryn Binder	KTM	22	1'05.873
21	Andrea Migno	KTM	22	3'25.084
22	Arón Canet	KTM	18	4 Laps
	Ai Ogura	Honda	21	1 Lap
	Tom Booth-Amos	KTM	21	1 Lap
	Julian Jose	Honda	18	4 Laps
	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	15	7 Laps
	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	9	13 Laps
	John McPhee	Honda	7	15 Laps
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