Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna) takes pole position For the starting line-up for the Moto3 Portuguese Grand Prix, which took place at a fast lap record pace on the Portimao circuit on Sunday.
Sasaki stepped in 1:46,798, new past performance.
Spaniard Xavier Artigas (CFMoto) was the fastest in the first division, where the four fastest drivers had to exit to advance to the second division, with Japan’s Tatsuki Suzuki (Honda) in addition to the Spaniards. Dutch Collin Veijer (Husqvarna) and Italian Riccardo Rossi (Honda). The only female Spaniard in the competition, Ana Carrasco (KTM), finished thirteenth, finishing twenty-seventh in the starting line-up for the Portuguese race.
Fully immersed in the second classification, the Japanese Kaito Toba was the first reference in the category, but with the smallest displacement as usual, the classification had just begun and the changes would be constant. No sooner said than done. Following Toba, Spaniard Xavier Artigas, Australian Joel Kelso or Japanese Ayumu Sasaki, among others, crossed the first row of the timetable.
Strategies have changed little compared to previous seasons. most pilots looking for a “good wheel” Ahead is Japan’s Sasaki to improve their record, although in the second round almost stubbornly with a record of 1:46,798 that neither opponent could reach in the entire qualifying round.
With less than three minutes to go, Joel Kelso (CFMoto) took second place after Sasaki, but the young 17-year-old Spanish rider José Antonio Rueda (KTM) was 96,000 times faster to take Sasaki to third place. Even with time, nearly all pilots have tried a final ‘time attack’, but with little success, at least in: fight for pole positionIt fell into the hands of Ayumu Sasaki, who was still on the track in the last seconds to train the start.
Finally With Ayumu Sasaki’s record, no one couldColombian-born Spaniard Daniel Holgado (KTM) and Iván Ortola (KTM) took second place, while José Antonio Rueda and Joel Kelso took the first ‘pole’ of the season in the front row. In Madrid, David Alonso (GasGas).
Spain’s Xavier Artigas (CFMoto), Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM) and Spain’s Jaume Masiá (Honda), Italian Stefano Nepa (KTM), Japanese Kaito Toba and again took third place. Italian Riccardo Rossi is in fourth place. Slightly behind, he finished in fifth place alongside Spain’s David Muñoz, Dutch Collin Veijer and Japan’s Tatsuki Suzuki, followed by Brazilian Diogo Moreira, Japan’s Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM) and Spain’s David Salvador (KTM).