TAKA FINISHES AS TOP HONDA AT THE RED BULL RING

LCR Honda IDEMITSU rider Takaaki Nakagami claimed an impressive fifth-placed finish at an incident-packed Grand Prix of Styria. Sunday’s MotoGP race at the Red Bull Ring had to be restarted following a dramatic early incident between Dani Pedrosa and Lorenzo Salvadori, but Nakagami showed his pace and battling qualities to end up narrowly outside the podium places.

Departing from tenth on the grid, Taka made a solid start only for the race to be restarted after three laps with the original grid line-up reinstated. Second time around the Japanese star made quick progress and, after getting the better of LCR team-mate Álex Márquez, battled towards the front of field throughout and was just edged out for fourth by KTM’s Brad Binder.