Rookie Veijer ma🌄de a great start to hit the front early on and took round eighteen with superior speed, with a result which was devisive in the Liqui Moly Husqvarna garage.

Always in the mix after his strong early pace,  two big crashes in the race m🐻eant there were on𝓰ly three riders in contention for the win by the last lap.

That group saw the #95 ahead and unwillin💛g to cede to his teammates battle for the title, holding firm over the final corners with a defensive line which saw him become the first☂ rider from the Netherlands to take victory since Hans Spaan in 1990 in the Czech GP as he picked up his maiden win.

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Sasaki had been strong at turn nine through out the race and was ready to pull out his same lunge that had helped him to the front several times, as he rehearsed his winning move. The #71 pulled c🦂loser to his teammate after a succession of strong corners.

Not pushing in the same way, his words in parc ferme suggested he expected his teammate to give up the positio🦹n for the sake of his title aspirations. Veijer would not be denied a first win after so many tries, so that left the Japanese rider 0.066s behind at the line.

😼There were no hard feelings betwwen the pair by the time they hit the post raﷺce interviews.

Masia cut a forlorn figure after the race too. His Leopard Honda seemed underpowered by comparison and the Spaniard was clearly pushing to the limit, with a different line to attempt to s🎀lipstream the duo ahead his plan to attempt a late move for the win after starting from pole.

It was not to be for the Spani💝ard either as 𒁏he completed the podium in third.

The lead group was splintered by a late crash for the Red Bull KTM Ajo teammates. Rookie Jose Antonio Rue🐈da experienced some slight contact with Ivan Ortola as he attempted🥀 a pass, that saw him out of control, running into the back tyre of a very unimpressed Deniz Oncu.

Angeluss MTA rider Ort🌺ola rode around the pair and recovered to claim fourth.

He crossed the 🌄line just ahead of BOE motorsports David Munozꦐ in a tight run to the line from the duo.

Adrian Fernandez claimed sixth o🎶n the second Leopard, in turn just ahead of seventh placed Xavier Artigas (C𒁃FMoto PruestelGP) as they slipped back towards Joel Kelso (also CFMoto) who couldn't take advantage and finished eighth.

Huge crash claims big names

The early part of the race saw interst as David Alonso looked to make up from his earlier falls and off quali♌fying which left h🍌im 21st. He worked his way into the top ten before, on lap five, he highsided. 

With the race very cl❀ose at this stage there was a huge amount of riders behind left nowhere to go, with his crash also taking out Daniel Holgado, Taiyo Furusato, Riccardo Rossi and Diogo Moreira.

That allowed the riders behind to gain places. Fillipo Farioli finished ninth for Red Bull KTM Tech3. Ryusei Yamanaka completed the top ten🎃 for Gaviꦡota GasGas Aspar.

Oncu remounted for twelfth. Behind him&nbs🌌p;the remaining points went to Vincente Perez in 13th, with Scott Ogden over a s🐈econd ahead of his VisionTrack teammate Joshua Whatley in 14th and 15th respectively.

Crashes, injuries and replacements

In addition tꦡo the two big crashes in the race, Romano Fenati wa the first to exit. Kaito Toba also failed to see the chequered f♏lag, while Syarifuddin Azman remounted after his late slip off to finish 20th and last in his home race.

Perez 🃏is the only replacement rider in Malaysia as he continued to fill Ana Carrasco’s se⛎at at BOE Motorsports.

Where does that leave the championship?

Masia retains the championship lead but it is cut by four points with Sasaki finishing ahead, even though he would have preferred to have taken a nine point advantage.
Masia leads the way with 246 points with Sasaki on 225 after setting a new race lap record. DNFs for Alonso and Holgado seဣe them remain third and fourth, now jointly a distant 41 points behind Masia.