Aragon Moto3: Canet fights back with dominant win

Canet's title run took two massive hits in the past two races, after the Spaniard was collected by Albert Arenas at Silverstone and then retired with a bike problem at Misano.

But he dominated at Aragon and, with Dalla Porta only finishing 11th, he is only two points behind the Italian with five races left to run.

Canet led from pole position and was able to break away from the field early on as several riders battled behind him.

By the time Ai Ogura settled into second for several consecutive laps, Canet had a 2.8s lead and the Max Racing Team KTM rider, despite getting a track limits warning, was able to further extend the gap to win by 4.5s.

Second place was fiercely contested among several riders, with rookie Ogura holding the position for most of the time.

He came under pressure from Dennis Foggia late on, the Italian passing him at Turn 4 on the final lap, only to slightly run wide at the end of the backstraight and concede second to Ogura.

The Honda Team Asia rider took the first podium of his Moto3 career while VR46 KTM man Foggia matched his best result in the series with third.

Petronas Sprinta's John McPhee stole fourth from Alonso Lopez (EG0,0), who was battling for the podium positions for the whole race, on the backstraight of the final lap.

Misano winner Tatsuki Suzuki (SIC58) was sixth with rookie Sergio Garcia (EG0,0) recovering from 29th on the grid to finish seventh.

Angiel Nieto Team's Albert Arenas, Gresini rider Gabriel Rodrigo and Arbolino completed the top 10.

Snipers rider Arbolino was one of Canet's closest challengers early on but dropped back in the late stages, battling with Dalla Porta.

While Dalla Porta took the chequered flag first of the pair, he was penalised one position for exceeding track limits and was classified only 11th.

Local duo Jaume Masia and Marcos Ramirez crashed out, the former declared unfit, having suffered a right radius fracture.

Four riders, Romano Fenati, Niccolo Antonelli, Kaito Toba and Can Oncu all missed the race due to injuries sustained at the previous round at Misano.

Race results:

Cla	#	Rider	Bike	Laps	Gap
1	44	Arón Canet	KTM	19
2	79	Ai Ogura	Honda	19	4.581
3	7	Dennis Foggia	KTM	19	4.663
4	17	John McPhee	Honda	19	4.729
5	21	Alonso López	Honda	19	4.842
6	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	19	4.947
7	11	Sergio García	Honda	19	5.085
8	75	Albert Arenas	KTM	19	5.483
9	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	Honda	19	5.773
10	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	19	8.812
11	48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Honda	19	8.579
12	99	Carlos Tatay	KTM	19	8.90
13	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	19	8.905
14	13	Celestino Vietti Ramus	KTM	19	8.970
15	84	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	19	9.197
16	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	19	13.455
17	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	19	13.551
18	12	Filip Salač	KTM	19	13.561
19	67	Gerard Riu	KTM	19	13.790
20	10	Julian Jose	Honda	19	13.891
21	25	Raúl Fernández	KTM	19	14.197
22	32	Davide Pizzoli	Honda	19	16.586
23	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	19	20.338
24	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	19	20.870
25	22	Kazuki Masaki	KTM	19	34.135
26	54	Riccardo Rossi	Honda	19	43.083
27	69	Tom Booth-Amos	KTM	19	1'06.771
	76	Makar Yurchenko	KTM	19	29.508
	42	Marcos Ramirez	Honda	5	14 Laps
	5	Jaume Masia	KTM	1	18 Laps
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