2015 Assen Moto3 Race Result: Holding Off The Rain

A dry start and no flag-to-flag racing in Moto3 means the race would be stopped to let the riders change to wet tyres for safety reasons if it starts to rain. Would the weather hold off?

Miguel Oliveira led into the first turn and held that for three laps as a group of six riders, Oliveira, Enea Bastianini, Jorge Navarro, Danny Kent, Fabio Quartararo and Efren Vazquez, started to clump together, Vazquez crashed out on the third lap and was replaced by a hard charging Romano Fenati and joined by Brad Binder.

Quartararo took the lead briefly, but Oliviera took it back and held on until Fenati made it through the leading crowd to the front to lead over the line as lap seven started. The front seven were over three seconds clear of eighth place and the gap kept increasing.

Danny Kent took his turn at the front but couldn't hold Enea Bastianini off for long. Then, four riders abreast, Miguel Oliveira took the lead back.

On lap 12, Francesco Bagnaia lots the front a little into turn one and forced his teammate Juanfran Guevara into Maria Herrara, causing the pair to crash out as Bagnaia escaped unscathed.

Bastianini led for a lap before Fenati took it back as the front seven swapped places, Brad Binder being the only constant at the back. After a few more lead changes, Jorge Navarro finally took his turn at the lead, the sixth rider to lead over the line, and he held it until the last lap.

Oliveira led at the beginning of the opening lap but it was all change as the top seven riders jostled for position, Quartararo leading before the last section with Kent up to second, but Oliveira knew his position, having taken second from Kent, was the best to go for the win and he passed Quartararo over the line with Kent in third.

Niklas Ajo entered the last chicane but lost control of his bike and was thrown out of the saddle. He held on to the handlebars and wrestled the bike across gravel and grass on his knees and somehow wrangled his KTM over the line with both knees grinding leather on tarmac and wearing a hole on the toe of his left boot.

Danny Kent increases his lead to fifty-seven points, but Oliveira closed up to within six points of second-placed Bastianini.