In Qatar, after demonstrating some serious speed in pre-season testing, Dixon was consistently boxing at the business end of the timesheets. Two crashes hampered his weekend slightly in Lusail, but P7 on the grid was a solid enough start to the campaign. A good launch from Row 3 can propel you into a podium charge. However, Dixon was caught up in a Lap 1, Turn 1 incident that saw Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Ajo) and Fermin Aldeguer (MB Conveyors Speed Up) also run wide. In the end, coming back from P20 to finish P11 was as good a job Dixon could have done.

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