Moto3 Argentina: Fearless rookie Pawi dominates for historic win

Rookie Khairul Idham Pawi vanished to become the first Malaysian winner in Grand Prix racing by a huge 26 seconds, during the Moto3 race in Argentina.
Moto3: Fearless Pawi dominates for historic win

Rookie Khairul Idham Pawi mastered tricky conditions to immediately pull out a huge gap which only increased as he put in a succession of fastest laps to ease to victory in the Moto3 Argentina Gran💎d Prix, the second round of the championship.

The Honda Team Asia rider rode confidently and fearlessly on his intermediate dry tyres - exceeding the pace of wet runner Livio Loi in the early stages - before pulling out a final lead of over 2൩6 seconds to become the 🎃first ever Malaysian rider to take a win at Grand Prix level.

The 17-year-old showed a glimmer of his pr♉owess in the wet as he stood out from the crowd with an extremely dominant performance to top the wet warm-up session. After losing three grid places to a penalty he immediately shot to the front in the drying conditions and never looked back.

Jo🌜rge Navarro (Estrella Galicia 0,0) rose to join Adam Norrodin (ℱDrive M7 SIC) in a sensational battle for second which only ended when the Malaysian caught the paint and crashed out on the final lap, leaving Navarro clear for the position.

Norrodin ๊bravely ran straight over to his bike and pushed it to the🍷 line to finish in the points in eleventh.

The final podium spot was hard won in the chasing group with Brad Binder pulling to the front in an exciti🦄ng battle to the line. The Re൲d Bull Ajo rider was the top KTM finisher and now leads the championship with a total of 36 points, five points ahead of Antonelli.

Andrea Locatelli just missed out after being the main front-runner in the chasing group in fourth for Leopard holding off Joan Mir who set two fastest laps as he made a final surge for position,ꦉ taking fifth behind his team-mate.

Hiroki Ono battled to sixth, co🔥mpleting a great resuᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚlt for the Honda Team Asia outfit.

John McPhee was the top placed Mahi🀅ndra on his Peugeot MC SaxoPrint machine, an incredible finish in se𝐆venth from a 28th place start.

Aspar Mahindra rider Jorge Martin also impressed as the manufactueres machinery seemed to handle well✃ in the wet for eighth, Jakub Kornfeil took the flag in ninth on the other Drive M7 SIC entry and Niccolo Antonelli (Ongetta-Rivacold) recovered from a poor start to secure a top ten finish.

Also in the points were Juanfran Guevara (RBA Racing) in twelfth, Fabio Quartararo on the third Leopard ent💙ry in 13th, ꦜMaria Herrera (MH6 Laglisse) in 14th and Philipp Oettl (Schedl GP Racing) securing 15th.

Oettl was the last rider to pass the sinking Livio Loi, who was the on🌺ly rider to take a tyre gamble on intermediate♔ wet Dunlops.

Initially making the most of the damp patches pulling he pulled out his own lead in second over the chasi🅺ng pack before being reeled in and passed by both Norrodin and Navarro in one move and sinking dow☂n the order as the risk failed to pay off, finishing 16th.

The only Argentinian rider in the༺ paddock; Gabriel Rodrigo; took 19th.

Big names who floundered in the unusual track conditions included Enea Bastianini in 17th after looking strong in practice and Roma𒊎no Fenati who started second but finish🧔ed a lowly 20th.

Aron Canet was the only otไher faller, crashing ಌout of sixth while in the battle for fourth at the start of the penultimate lap.

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