[notícia atualizada às 13.48 com resultado final]
Miguel Oliveira suffered a fall at the Austrian Grand Prix, when he was 10th. At the Red Bull Circuit in Spielberg, the Portuguese driver started from ninth and wiggled one place over another at the bottom, the race always under threat of rain and drizzle. This is the Portuguese’s second consecutive abandonment, after leaving earlier in the Styria GP, last week in the same syllabus, conditioned on a drop in free practice.
His KTM teammate, Brad Bender, already won the race with heavy rain on the straight and a slow walk because he was on dry tyres. The South African rider decided to take a risk and stay on track when just about everyone went to the pits to change their bikes to wet tyres.
Behind him is a real fight for second place and against the rain – Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin ended up completing the podium, removing Joan Mir, Iker Lecona and even Valentino Rossi, who was last season and came third.
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It rained a few minutes before the start, but the drivers left on dry tyres. It started raining on the first lap and immediately white flags appeared allowing riders to change their bikes.
Miguel dropped to 10th on lap 2 and on lap 5 moved up to 9th. Weather conditions worsened and many riders changed their bikes.
The MotoGP World Championship returns in two weeks with the Silverstone GP in Great Britain.
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