Bendsneyder 16th again, with time penalty in France

For the French team’s home round in Le Mans, Bo Bendsneyder arrived on the grid with some extra motivation to do well. Starting from the seventh row, the Moto2 rookie made up positions step by step and did some good lap times towards the second half of the race to eventually miss out on his first point narrowly, finishing in 16th place. Bo got a time penalty of 1.7 seconds after cutting the chicane. This however didn’t change the result; he was 1.5 seconds behind Pawi ast the line and over 4 seconds in front of Steve Odendaal.

Hector Garzo, who jumped in again in place of Remy Gardner this weekend, delivered some solid first laps and found himself in 24thposition early on after starting from P27 on the grid. Yet, the young Spaniard got penalized for a jump start and had to ride through the pit lane, whereby he lost his rhythm, which led to an unfortunate early end of his race.

Bo BendsneyderPosition: 16th– Championship: 26th– Points: –

“Finally, it’s not the result that we wanted. We need to fight for the points and in the end, we came out again with zero points. Apart from this I think we gathered some good information to try for tomorrow’s test. We want to try to make another step on Monday here, as I think this is very important before we go to Mugello to find something more. I want to thank my team for everything.”

Race results:

pos Rider Team Time
1 Francesco BAGNAIA SKY Racing Team VR46 40’40.162
2 Alex MARQUEZ EG 0,0 Marc VDS 2.709
3 Joan MIR EG 0,0 Marc VDS 4.865
4 Marcel SCHROTTER Dynavolt Intact GP 7.041
5 Xavi VIERGE Dynavolt Intact GP 9.811
6 Miguel OLIVEIRA Red Bull KTM Ajo 9.943
7 Romano FENATI Marinelli Snipers Team 12.293
8 Fabio QUARTARARO MB Conveyors – Speed Up Racing 14.585
9 Brad BINDER Red Bull KTM Ajo 15.429
10 Stefano MANZI Forward Racing Team 17.228
11 Hector BARBERA Pons HP40 18.809
12 Andrea LOCATELLI Italtrans Racing Team 19.541
13 Sam LOWES Swiss Innovative Investors 21.112
14 Simone CORSI Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2 23.510
15 Khairul Idham PAWI IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia 25.996
16 Bo BENDSNEYDER Tech 3 Racing 29.267
17 Steven ODENDAAL NTS RW Racing GP 32.493
18 Mattia PASINI Italtrans Racing Team 44.006
19 Joe ROBERTS NTS RW Racing GP 45.609
20 Jules DANILO Nashi Argan SAG Team 45.840
21 Danny KENT MB Conveyors – Speed Up Racing 46.052
22 Niki TUULI SIC Racing Team 48.371
23 Lukas TULOVIC Kiefer Racing 54.304
24 Corentin PEROLARI Promoto Sport 57.478
25 Tetsuta NAGASHIMA IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia +1’07.712
26 Xavi CARDELUS Team Stylobike +1’21.756
27 Cedric TANGRE Yohan Moto Sport +1’36.542
not classified:
Federico FULIGNI Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2 15 Laps
Hector GARZO Tech 3 Racing 15 Laps
Lorenzo BALDASSARRI Pons HP40 17 Laps
Iker LECUONA Swiss Innovative Investors 19 Laps
Jorge NAVARRO Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 20 Laps
Eric GRANADO Forward Racing Team 24 Laps
Luca MARINI SKY Racing Team VR46 24 Laps
Isaac VIÑALES SAG Team 0 Lap

Source: motogp.com, tech3 racing

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