Lining up on the grid in P20 after Marc Marquez’ withdrawal from the Dutch Grand Prix this morning, Augusto Fernandez took a decent start in today's race, but a contact with another rider saw him losing a position after one lap. A few crashes at the front happened, and small losses of rhythm from other riders at the front gave Augusto the opportunity to place himself in fifteenth after four laps. A few laps later, a small mistake saw him heading straight to the gravels as he missed the last chicane, meaning he was back in seventeenth behind Stefan Bradl and Lorenzo Savadori. Eventually, the Aprilia rider went ahead of Bradl, so Augusto found himself behind the German substitute for a couple of laps, until he was finally able to overtake him in the fifteenth lap. We were halfway through the race as the rookie seemed to be more consistent with his lap times. He rode his fastest lap in 1’34.193 on lap 21, during which he was able to take the best of Savadori to enter in the top 10, a position for which he fought really hard despite the difficult track conditions. Augusto Fernandez passed the checkered flag in tenth, and scored another six points today, a great achievement before heading to the summer break. The rookie remains one of the few riders from the MotoGP™ grid to have scored points in each round so far, and sits in fourteenth in the championship with a total of forty-two points.

Jonas Folger was starting the Dutch Grand Prix from the twenty-second place on the grid on Sunday. When lights went out at 15:00 local time (GMT+2), Jonas managed to take a decent start as he seemed more confident on the GASGAS RC16 than in yesterday’s Tissot Sprint. The issues on the bike's front encountered on Saturday seemed to have been addressed this morning in the warm up, a positive point for the number 94. He managed to stay close with his group, finding himself behind teammate Fernandez for the first few laps. A mistake from Raul Fernandez gave Folger the opportunity to overtake him and move to the doors of the top 15 in sixteenth after an eventful start to the race which saw many big names going down. Jonas rode his fastest lap of the race on lap 11, in 1’34.589, only 0.396 seconds from his teammate’s fastest. Eventually Fernandez caught him back, but Jonas finished the race with consistent lap times to pass the final line in fourteenth. This is the third time that he finishes in the points, a nice way to head to the summer break.

That’s both the first half of the season and June’s triple header wrapped up for the GASGAS Factory Racing Tech3 team who will now head to a well-deserved summer break before returning to action at the British Grand Prix, on August 4-6, 2023.