Britain’s Danny Kent took another Moto3 podium at today’s Assen MotoGP round and increased his championship lead over Enea Bastianini to 57 as the Italian was battered back to sixth place on the last lap.

Seven riders scrapped it out for the win over 22 laps in Holland with Kent’s Leopard Honda starting the penultimate lap at the back of the group but his racecraft brought him through the pack to finish behind Fabio Quartaro and winner Miguel Oliviera, who won his second race of the year.

The sun came out to play and track temperatures rose to 26°C before the start of what would turn out to be an incredibly dramatic race. A leading group of seven riders broke away from the rest of the field in the early stages to provide drama and excitement in equal measure as they fought tooth and nail for the victory.

The lead swapped hands at almost every corner, as the riders in the leading group put move after move on each other, but it was Oliveira who timed his charge to perfection to snatch the lead just before the final chicane and held on across the line to take KTM’s thrd win of the season ahead of 16-year-old Quartararo and Kent.

Jorge Navarro had to settle for fourth ahead of the hard charging Romano Fenati on the Sky Racing Team VR46 KTM, while the man who started form pole, 17-year-old Italian Bastianini , crossed the line in sixth.

Brad Binder was the last man in the leading group in seventh, with his teammate Karel Hanika wining the battle for eighth in the chasing pack ahead of Niccolo Antonelli and Scotlnd's John McPhee, who completed the top ten.

RBA Racing’s Niklas Ajo crossed the line in 17th in remarkable fashion having lost control at the final corner in the battle for 8th and managing to hold on while hanging completely off the side of his bike to finish the race, eventually crossing the line on his knees.

Maria Herrera looked on course for her first top-ten finish before Antonelli took her out after losing control under braking while she was leading the chasing group in 8th. Her teammate Isaac Viñales also crashed out after contact from Juanfran Guevara, while Efren Vazquez, Andrea Locatelli, Zulfhami Khairuddin, Alexis Masbou and Tatsuki Suzuki all failed to finish, with the latter suffering from a technical fault on the first lap.

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