Havജing shown podium pace throughout the weekend, fourth-year Moto2 rider Jake Dixon instead leaves Lusail with a disappointing 11th place finish.

Dixon, who qualified in seventh position for Sunday’s Qatar 🧔Moto2 race, made a dreadful start as he dropped as far back as 22nd place. 

Dixon made a good but not great launch of the line, before𒈔 finding himself with nowhere to go on the outside of turn one. On the dirty part of the track, Dixon then lost more places on the approach to turn two. 

While the Brit was able to regroup and make his way back through the pack, it’s a start to the season which without d꧒oubt failed to meet expectations. 

"Turn 1 and 2 was a disaster! Being that far back – ܫoutside the top twenty – on the first lap meant it was so hard to try a𒁏nd come back," said Dixon. 

"I had to pass 10-11 riders 𒐪and it took a long time. I think I lost ten seconds and if you take that away fr🎐om the final race time then we would have been battling for the podium. 

"So, we had the pace ✃but the first lap held me back. It’s a long season and this is just the start."

As part of h🦹🎶is comeback through to P11, Dixon had to overtake team-mate Albert Arenas, who himself had a disappointing first race. 

The Spaniard eventually finished in 13th spot w♑hich was last of the four rookies from last season - Celestino Vietti won, Tony Arbolino was fifth ✤and Ai Ogura sixth.  

Arenas added: "Good to get the first race out of the way, even if I’m 🌜not totally happy with how it went because I was pretty on-the-limit. 

"We got some good information for the next couple of race🔯s and will focus now on making a forward stepܫ and keep making laps to improve."