Acosta and Garcia had been the category of the sector within the tough situations and battled arduous on the final lap, with Acosta prevailing to increase his championship result in 53 factors.
There was drama earlier than race even begun, with poleman Deniz Oncu wheeled into pitlane as his Tech3 crew elected to change him to slick tyres simply because the three-minute board was proven.
He was pressured to begin from the again and was certainly one of seven riders to go for slicks on the wet-but-slowly-drying Purple Bull Ring together with Petronas Sprinta duo Darryn Binder and John McPhee, Snipers Honda rider Andrea Migno and his stand-in team-mate David Salvador, and Honda Crew Asia’s Andi Farid Izdihar.
Oncu’s penalty basically gifted Garcia pole place, although it was Romano Fenati on the Max Racing Husqvarna who grabbed the holeshot from Garcia and championship chief Acosta.
Garcia guided his Aspar GasGas into the lead at Flip 9 on the finish of the opening lap as the highest three had already moved two seconds away from the sector.
Acosta adopted Garcia via on Fenati at Flip 3 on the second tour earlier than taking the lead on the identical nook a lap later.
Garcia retaliated on the Ajo KTM rider at Flip 3 subsequent time round, whereas Fenati shortly dropped off the lead battle – the highest two over eight seconds clear by lap 12 of 23.
Because the observe continued to dry out, Acosta gave the impression to be biding his time behind Garcia, maintaining his tyres cool on the damp patches.
Sergio Garcia, Aspar Crew Moto3
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On lap 13 the 17-year-old made one other moved for the lead at Flip 3 and instantly put three tenths between himself and Garcia.
However the Aspar rider nailed his run via the third sector and reclaimed the lead at Flip 9, as soon as once more countering an Acosta overtake at Turns 3 and 4 on lap 18.
Acosta as soon as once more tried to take the lead from Garcia at Flip 3 on the penultimate lap, however the latter obtained a greater drive out of the nook and was again within the lead on the backside of the hill at Flip 3.
Acosta made a daring lunge on the within of Garcia into the Flip 6 left-hander however discovered no manner via.
He made a transfer stick into Flip 1 on the ultimate lap, however Garcia in a position to get into his slipstream up the hill to Flip 3 and launching an assault.
The pair collided, Garcia coming via as Acosta was pressured to run off observe at Flip 3.
Acosta lined up Garcia once more for a transfer into Flip 9 and got here up the within, with Garcia crashing because the Ajo rider got here via.
The latter had his personal second exiting Flip 9 and ran off observe once more, however took the chequered flag in first place for his fifth win of the season.
Such was Garcia’s benefit over the pack behind that he rejoined and nonetheless completed second, whereas Fenati snatched third from Ajo KTM’s Jaume Masia on the closing nook.
Ayumu Sasaki accomplished the highest 5 for Tech3 KTM forward of Binder, who was the main slick runner on his Honda – although he ended up 20.534s off the victory.
Ryusei Yamanaka was seventh on the Prustel GP KTM forward of Honda Crew Asia’s Yuki Kunii, the returning Max Koffler (CIP KTM) and Max Racing Crew rookie Adrian Fernandez.
Oncu made little progress on slick tyres after being demoted to the again of the grid, the Turkish rider 1m12s off the win down in twenty first.
Moto3 Styrian Grand Prix outcomes – 23 laps