Third victory of the season for David Alonso, Daniel Holgado continues to lead

David Alonso, who dominated all the training sessions in France, managed to exercise his supremacy at the start from pole position, but stuck in the slipstream of his motorcycle, Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas) tried to prevent his rival from taking the lead. inside the curve to guarantee overtaking in the next one and thus prevent him from setting his pace and escaping at the first opportunity.

In addition to Holgado, David Alonso gave the impression of wanting to take it more calmly to avoid making the mistake of ‘Ángel Nieto’ from Jerez de la Frontera, in which he crashed on the first lap, as José tried unsuccessfully to overtake him. Antonio Rueda (KTM) but David Muñoz (KTM) did.

Like the previous ones, Adrián Fernández (Honda) also managed to surpass David Alonso, but in his case it was going to be a worthless action, since he had been sanctioned during training with a double ‘long lap’.

After completing the first of the two long laps, Adrián Fernández had fallen from third to sixteenth position; and in the second he had recovered one place – fifteenth – and returned to the track twenty-first.

Holgado knew how to maintain the lead, followed by David Muñoz, the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna), who overtook David Alonso, ahead of the Spaniards Ángel Piqueras (Honda), Iván Ortolá (KTM) and José Antonio Rueda, but with a group massive crowd at the head of the race still in the fifth lap.

With Daniel Holgado firmly in the lead of the race almost at all times, David Muñoz could not stop the attack of Collin Veijer, who moved to second position, to the detriment of David Muñoz, who collided with the Italian Riccardo Rossi (KTM) and it ended on the ground.

The Dutch driver overtook Holgado in the ninth lap, in which Daniel Holgado, David Muñoz and David Alonso were in his wake, in the first instance, giving the impression that the Colombian driver of Spanish origin was waiting for the right moment to attack Holgado. their rivals.

David Muñoz’s action that caused Riccardo Rossi to fall was analyzed by the Race Direction panel of stewards, who decided to sanction the Spanish driver with a double ‘long lap’ for unsportsmanlike driving.

In his first penalty, which he served on lap eleven, David Muñoz went from first to seventeenth. He still had to serve a second penalty, which he waited a couple of laps to do so to try to give up as little ground as possible and not lose contact with the leading group of the race.

David Muñoz tried to come back after failing to maintain contact with the leading group and the situation ended up taking its toll on him when he rolled on the ground in turn eleven.

At the head, the Dutchman Collin Veijer regained the lead again when Daniel Holgado opened more than he should, but the differences between all of them were minimal.

At the beginning of the fifteenth lap, Daniel Holgado regained first place, even coming into contact with Collin Veijer’s motorcycle, and always with David Alonso expectantly in third position, which he lost shortly after to Iván Ortolá.

With four laps to go the leading group had been reduced to ten drivers, with a world championship leader, Daniel Holgado, who did not give up in his efforts to maintain the lead of the race, and a very ‘relaxed’ and expectant David Alonso.

With less than three laps to go the situation changed, David Alonso went on the attack and went from third place to first in a single ‘stroke’, but Daniel Holgado was very clear about it and reacted quickly to prevent his most direct rival in the championship achieved an unattainable advantage in these last laps of the race.

The ‘hostilities’ had begun in the fight for victory and the podium. Alonso returned the overtake to Holgado and Veijer stuck to them to look for his opportunity in a last lap in which the Colombian knew how to close all the doors to his rivals to achieve the third victory of the season.

With Alonso at the top of the podium, he was accompanied by the Spanish Daniel Holgado and the Dutch Collin Veijer, with the Spaniards Joel Esteban (CFMoto), Iván Ortolá and Adrián Fernández, behind them.

José Antonio Rueda finished eighth, between the Japanese Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM) and Tatsuki Suzuki (Honda), with Ángel Piqueras tenth and David Almansa (KTM) in the points, being fifteenth.