Izan Guevara scored his first Moto3 victory after the Grand Prix of the Americas was cancelled following a fearsome crash on the back straight.
Guevara led the way following the end of the opening seven laps of the 17 tour event prior to tjhe first of two red flag periods, the initial stoppage coming after Filip Salac high-sided at Turn 11, the Czech rider eventually removed from the track conscious.
A five lap dash to decide the race was then called, though this too was stopped after a huge crash caused by Tech 3’s Deniz Oncu turning across Jeremy Alcoba on the main straight, causing the Gresini man to go down at around 140 miles per hour, his bike being collected by the unsighted Andrea Migno and series leader Pedro Acosta close behind.
Despite both going airbourne they escaped injury, though with time running short the decision was ultimately made to call the race after the original seven laps prior to the first red flag with full points, gifting the win to Guevara despite the GasGas man retiring from the restarted contest with a technical issue.
Dennis Foggia therefore claimed second for Leopard Racing ahead of John McPhee, the Scot completing the rostrum for Petronas SRT.
Jaume Masia ended up fourth ahead of Oncu and Alcoba, while Darryn Binder laid claim to seventh just clear of Acosta-who sees his 42 point lead trimmed to 30 over Foggia with three races remaining.
Tatsuki Suzuki and Migno completed the top ten for the SIC 58 and Snipers squad’s respectively.
Sergio Garcia’s title hopes took a hit after sustaining bruising to his kidney in a practice crash on Friday, forcing him to sit out the rest of the weekend as a result and dropping to 50 points adrift of Acosta in the riders standings heading to Misano in three weeks time.
