Pedro Acosta left it to the final lap to make his move and take his second consecutive win in just his third world💦 championship start in the Moto3 Portimao Grand Prix.

The Red Bull KTM rookie, who matches Daijiro Kato’s world championship start 🐓record with the result, had followed Dennis Foggia around, watꦓching his lines lap after lap.

The sixteen year old made a huge lu🎀nge at his final time around turn thirteen, didn’t run wide, survived a wobble from the track surface and kept ahead all the way to the line for his third po𝓀dium in three races, with the last two both visits to the top spot on the rostrum.

Acosta remains the championship leader - now with an extended points lead of 3♛1 and a total of 70.

Foggia had looked𝔉 to have the better straight line speed, holding over the line time and again. On the last lap he was too close to Acosta after his wobble and found himself without a slipstream. It is Foggia’s first points finish of the season for Leopard Racing Honda and matches his Portimao performace of last season where he won the battle to the line for second with Jeremy Alcoba.

The 💧final podium place went to Andrea Migno who started on pole. The Rivacold Snipers rider had a hectic final lap, with contact with Sergio Garcia as they battled it out for third. 

Ayumu Sasaki took advantage of the chaos around ꧙him to climb to fourth, his best result of the season so far for Red Bull KTM Tech 3.

Gabriel Rodrigo staged a comeback after his run into the back of Xavier Artigas lead to his third✨ consecutive race out of the points. The Gresini rider was handed a long lap penalty which dropped him from fourth to fifteenth. The Argꦬentine rider then set about reducing the defecit and worked his way back into the lead group with a shot at victory on the cards until late in the race. Rodrigo was an eventual fifth.

Niccolo Antonell💝i spent much of the race in tenth place but too benefited from the late scuffles to climb to sixth for Avintia𝔍 Esponsorama - a great result considering bike issues caused him to qualify 17th .

Romano Fenati was elevated to te൲nth on the grid following the pen💜alties handed out after he was swamped by slower bikes in qualifying. The Sterilgarda Max Racing Team Husqvarna rider climbed to seventh by the chequered flag.

Garcia survived being hit by Migno to bring⛎ his Apsar GasGas machine home eighth.

Jaume Masia was fighting in the lead group before a fall on the final lap. The gaps between t🧜he riders gave him the opportunity to remount and still cross the line🐼 in ninth, completing a day of great, determined performances by Red Bull KTM Ajo riders.

Ryusei Yamanaka had his s🐽econd consecutive t🌊op ten finish as he chased the recovering Spaniard over the line for the CarXpert PruestelGP team.

Ste✱fano Nepa (BOE Owlride) and Jason Dupasquier on the second CarXpert entry were not far behind the pair, finishing eleventh and twelfth respectively.

Filip Salac was in the same group and end𓆏ed his race in 13th on the second Rivacold 𝕴Snipers bike.

Jeremy Alcoba served h𓆉is penalty for his part in the Doha fight with John McPhee, his qualifying performance was good enough for third before he was 🌟moved to the pit lane with an extra five second delay added.

His pace helped him 🦩to have Salac in his sights as he hit the finish line for Gresini, taking two points in 14th. McPhee, who had a ten second delay to contend with, finished 23rd.

Deniz Oncu and Darryn Binder were the only riders penalised for riding slowly at the e๊nd of qualfying. Binder was moved to the pit, as was Oncu, but with an additional five second wait. The Red Bull KTജM Tech 3 rider worked with Alcoba to collect the final point on offer in 15th. Binder completed a bad day at the office for the Petronas team in 20th.

Lap eight saw Kaito Toba chase down Anജtonelli, who was running a different line to most of the field. This threw the Japanese rider, who had to take action not to run into the back of him, the resulting crash cau😼ght an unlucky Izan Guevara.

An ambitious move from Adria♛n Fernandez saw him collect Tatsuki Suzuki as they battled for seventh with si🅺x laps remaining.