ANDColombian rider David Alonso took a giant step towards the Moto3 title by winning his ninth race of the season this Sunday (Saturday night in Colombia), the Indonesian Grand Prix.
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Alonso (CFMoto) won the Mandalika circuit on the island of Lombok, which would allow him to mathematically achieve the title of world champion in seven days in Japan.
The Colombian will secure the title in the next test, at the Japanese ‘Twin Ring Motegi’ circuit if he manages to score three more points than his closest rival, Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas).
Alonso was accompanied on the podium by the Spaniards Adrián Fernández (Honda) and David Muñoz (KTM).
Iván Ortolá, author of the ‘pole position’, had the obligation to make a good start to try to find a position favorable enough so that the fact of having to comply with the imposed penalty of two ‘long laps’ did not prevent him from staying in position. the leading group of the race.
But Ortolá was surprised at the start by the Japanese Taiyo Furusato (Honda), who became the leader of the race although closely followed by the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna), the Spanish Adrián Fernández (Honda) and the world leader, David Alonso (CFMoto).
Already in the second lap Iván Ortolá completed his first ‘long lap’ in which he fell to nineteenth position while at the head of the race the one who set the pace was Veijer, followed by Fernández, Furusato and Alonso, with the rest of the main group led by the Spanish Ángel Piqueras (Honda) and which also included Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas).
Holgado was a doubt until the last moment due to his physical condition after the terrifying fall he suffered during training, when the motorcycle of his teammate, the Australian Jacob Roulstone, passed over his body, but he knew how to endure the pain and stage a very good start from fourteenth position to ‘get’ into the leading group of the race without excessive problems.
In just two laps the first casualties occurred, in a fall in turn eight in which the Italian Filippo Farioli and the Spanish David Almansa were involved, both on Hondas, without either of them suffering significant physical damage. .
After six laps, a main group formed by ten drivers was assembled and included Collin Veijer, Adrián Fernández, David Alonso, Taiyo Furusato, Luca Lunetta, Tatsuki Suzuki, Daniel Holgado, David Muñoz, Ángel Piqueras and Joel Kelso, followed by just over three seconds away by a second group in which Iván Ortolá was already pulling him after completing his two ‘long laps’ penalty.
Ortolá began to stand out from the group in which he was establishing a kind of bridgehead between the two, although his pace did not allow us to predict that he could catch up with the leading group, much less when he was sanctioned with a third ‘long lap’ for cutting the route in turn nine.
While Ortolá completed that third long lap on the twelfth lap, the race leader, Collin Veijer, crashed in turn eight without the possibility of continuing in the race as his motorcycle was seriously damaged and his ‘role’ was assumed by him. the Spanish Adrián Fernández.
Fernández held his own at the head of the leading group, in which numerous changes occurred in his wake, although with Holgado who drew strength from his weakness to fight almost at all times for the first positions.
In the seventeenth lap, four from the end, the first attack came on Adrián Fernández, who was overtaken by up to four drivers, Daniel Holgado, David Muñoz, Taiyo Furusato and David Alonso, which in reality warned that the hostilities in the The fight for victory had begun and the world championship leader sounded the ‘bell’ again and took first place a few meters later.
In that fight in which no one gave an inch to the rival, mistakes were going to pay dearly and the first to make it was Furusato, who crashed in turn one three laps from the end.
With less than three laps to go, Adrián Fernández regained the lead and pushed hard to try to break the group and make the final cut in the fight for victory. This is how the last lap was reached, in which David Alonso stuck to the slipstream of Adrián Fernández’s motorcycle, as did David Muñoz, who ended up overtaking him, although the Honda rider gave it back to the KTM rider shortly after.
No one could prevent Alonso’s victory, his ninth of the season, who could mathematically be world champion next week in Japan, ahead of Adrián Fernández and David Muñoz.
Fourth place went to Ángel Piqueras, Luca Lunetta, Daniel Holgado, Tatsuki Suzuki, Joel Kelso, Iván Ortolá and Nicola Carraro completing the top ten positions.
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