Colombian David Alonso wins the Moto3 Grand Prix of Catalonia

Alonso knew how to wait for the right moment to take the lead in the race, change the pace of the race and win with authority. He is the world leader with 118 points, fourteen more than Daniel Holgado (104), with Collin Veijer third with 75 points.

The author of the ‘pole position’, the Spanish Iván Ortolá (KTM), did not fail at the moment of the start, taking the lead in the final curve of the straight, in which the leader of the competition, the Spanish Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas), went from ninth to second place.

With Ortolá leading, David Muñoz (KTM) followed in his wake, penalized with a ‘long lap’, which is why he surely pushed hard to try to lose as little time as possible with respect to his rivals when he completed it.

Ortolá remained firm in first place, with an already somewhat outstanding group at the head of ten drivers, among whom were both David Muñoz and the Japanese Taiyo Furusato (Honda), who had to serve two ‘long laps’ of sanction, something that They both did at the beginning of the third round.

In that third lap it was the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna), who took the lead in the time table, followed by David Alonso, Daniel Holgado, Iván Ortolá, Luca Lunetta, José Antonio Rueda, Adrián Fernández, Joel Esteban and Joel Kelso .

In front, with a slight gap, a group of eleven riders could be seen, while further back the Spanish David Almansa (Honda) was on the ground, who was able to start his motorcycle and return to the race in the last positions. .

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Veijer barely lasted two laps at the head of the race because Daniel Holgado was the one who started to lead the race when Furusato did his second ‘long lap’, ahead of him the Australian Joel Kelso crashed and just three corners later he was the driver Japanese driver who crashed in turn four.

In front of, Holgado gave up the lead of the race to Ortolá in the leading group, to which six more pilots ‘hooked’, so up to seventeen pilots were in it.

Ortolá and Holgado starred in a very intense ‘give and take’ in those moments of the race, pursued like their ‘shadows’ by Collin Veijer, David Muñoz, José Antonio Rueda, Luca Lunetta, David Alonso, Joel Esteba or Ryusei Yamanaka, among others .

Despite the pace, no driver was able to cause a ‘break’ in the main group and only the passing of the laps caused some of its members to become ‘off the hook’.

The duel at the head of the race between Ortolá and Holgado, which took a backseat on the eighth lap, was joined by both Collin Veijer and David Alonso and the Japanese Tatsuki Suzuki (Honda) was left behind, penalized with a ‘long lap’. ‘ for shortening the circuit in turn two of the Catalan track.

The changes in the lead became a constant in the last third of the race, in which both Ortolá and Veijer, Holgado and David Alonso, leader of the race for the first time with seven to go, had the initiative, when he took first , changed the rhythm and tried to break the main group, which became seven pilots.

The frenetic pace set by David Alonso, who set the fastest race lap on the fourteenth lap, was responded to by Iván Ortolá, Collin Veijer and David Holgado, who left Luca Luneta, Jose Antonio Rueda and David Muñoz somewhat off the hook.

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Little by little, David Alonso’s pace allowed Iván Ortolá and Collin Veijer to follow him, but Holgado, Rueda and Muñoz were falling somewhat behind in the fight for the podium.

But the pace he imposed David Alonso put all his rivals in single file until the drop of the checkered flag, which he crossed in first position, ahead of the Spaniards Iván Ortola and José Antonio Rueda, the Dutch Collin Veijer and the also Spaniards David Muñoz and Daniel Holgado, who lost the lead in the provisional world championship. .

Adrián Fernández (Honda), finished in the points by being tenth, Ángel Piqueras (Honda), was twelfth and Joel Esteban (CFMoto) achieved the fourteenth position.

EFE