David Alonso wins crazy Moto3 race in Thailand

Japanese Taiyo Furusato (Honda), who completed the race with Alonso on the podium in Buriram, achieved the first podium of his sports career, together with the world leader Spanish pilot, ahead of Dutch Collin Veijer (Husqvarna). Jaume Masia (Honda), in fourth place. Masiá had a total of 230 points, while Daniel Holgado (KTM), with 213 points from Ayumu Sasaki and 205 from David Alonso, moved into third place and moved up to fourth despite recovering many places after a mishap at the beginning of the race. race to finish sixth.

After the intense hot days of both the previous season and this season, the Moto3 race has already witnessed a significant development. The duration was shortened to 22 rounds and increased to 19 rounds. Compared to last year, this allowed the pilots to think about a much more aggressive start. Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM) did not allow anyone to take the first place from him at the start, and this goal was achieved by Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna), who left Brazilian Diogo Moreira (KTM) behind Jaume. It took Masiá a long time to come after the leader of the race, the Spanish-born Colombian. David Alonso moved from twelfth to fifth at the end of the first lap.

Diogo Moreira led the race in the first lap, followed by Jaume Masiá, Deniz Öncü, Ayumu Sasaki, David Alonso, Taiyo Furusato (Honda), Collin Veijer (Husqvarna), Iván Ortolá (KTM) and all the favorites. David Munoz (KTM).

Abandonment after abandonment

But David Muñoz, who was already sixth in the second round, mechanical problems Japanese Ayumu Sasaki was not so lucky, as was Daniel Holgado (KTM), who went off the track and returned in twenty-third place, when the gear shift on his bike got stuck at turn ten and did not engage properly, and although Iván Ortolá managed to avoid him He attacked her from behind, leaving them both out. From the test. Muñoz tried to continue the race but eventually gave up and came to the Sasaki workshop and decided to come back after losing four laps after repairing the motorcycle, but he soon gave up his efforts and quit the race.

This misfortune gave Sasaki a respite and allowed the race leader, Spaniard Jaume Masiá, to extend his lead in the world championship on the third lap. We have a long way ahead of us. A place where anything can happen.

The truth was that the race had just begun and although a group of nine riders had formed at the front and were constantly passing by, a little further back the Spaniard José Antonio Rueda (KTM) was leading the pursuit group on which he was already dependent. save positions crookedlyThe first leader of the category was Spanish Daniel Holgado. Holgado recovered quickly and without delay, moving from twenty-third to eighteenth, setting the fastest lap record.

In the sixth lap, the leader was Dutch Collin Veijer, followed by Moreira, Alonso, Masiá, Furusato, Öncü, Bertelle, Ortolá and Yamanaka, while the following group was six-tenths of a second behind.

Italian Riccardo Rossi (Honda), a pupil of Paolo Simoncelli’s team and father of the late Marco Simoncelli, was responsible for the withdrawal of the pursuit group, which almost caught the front runners on the seventh lap and formed a group. long, multicolored snake of eighteen pilots. Veijer maintains his lead ahead of David Alonso and Diogo Moreira, while in the background Masiá calmness and Daniel Holgado try to break into leading positions.

leak in head

Slowly in that leading group Five pilots stood out, Taiyo Furusato, Jaume Masiá, David Alonso, Deniz Öncü and Collin Veijer, Iván Ortolá and others are a little further behind. On lap fifteen, David Alonso took the lead of the race and tried to change the tempo of the race by pulling a little, but Collin Veijer responded quickly and effectively.

Nothing changed in the racing head, who saw All drivers regrouped and overtaking was constantCollin Veijer was the leader until the last lap, but the difference between them was only one thousandth of a second. Four drivers gained a few meters advantage; David Alonso, Jaume Masiá, Collin Veijer, Taiyo Furusato and Deniz Öncü who sneaked into that close fight.

Entering the final corner, David Alonso braked hard and closed the gap on the inside, which opened up all of his rivals. Jaume Masiá was the most affectedMasiá, who saw how he completed the podium by getting inside Taiyo Furusato and Collin Veijer, who were close to him, took fourth place, while Sea Pioneer Daniel Holgado, who made an unforgettable comeback, took sixth place.

Iván Ortolá was eleventh, while Diogo Moreira was thirteenth, ahead of Xavier Artigas (CFMoto), Adrián Fernández (Honda) and José Antonio Rueda. Vicente Pérez (KTM), who replaced the injured Ana Carrasco, who had surgery for tibia and fibula fractures, finished eighteenth.