David Alonso, unstoppable: he was the fastest and took pole position

The Colombian pilot David Alonso This Saturday he achieved the first pole position of his career, being the fastest in qualifying for the Moto3 Grand Prix of the Americas at the COTA circuit in Austin.

In the morning Alonso achieved a new absolute record for the category (2:14.153), in the official classification in the afternoon he dominated with authority and will start from the best position in the starting formation.

Alonso will be accompanied on the front line by the Spanish José Antonio Rueda (KTM) and Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas).

From the first classification, four drivers could obtain a pass to the second, among them the Spaniards Adrián Fernández (Honda), Joel Esteban (CFMoto), David Almansa (Honda), who was soon ruled out after crashing spectacularly in the entrance curve to the finish line, and Xabi Zurutuza (KTM), who was the first leader, although soon overtaken by several of his rivals.

The Australian Jakob Roulstone (Gas Gas) was the next leader of the round, although it did not take long for Adrián Fernández to overtake him, with Joel Esteban in third place and the British Joshua Whatley (Honda) in fourth, who remained that way until two final minutes, in which hostilities broke out to try to improve.

But, for one reason or another, traffic on the track prevented a 'clean lap' from being achieved and hardly anything changed in the classification, with Fernández, Roulstone, Esteban and the Italian Luca Lunetta (Honda) progressing to second classification. instead of the British Whatley.

José Antonio Rueda was the first leader in the second classification (2:15.063), supported by his compatriots Adrián Fernández and Ángel Piqueras (Honda), whose fastest lap was canceled for exceeding the limits of the circuit.

It didn't take long for David Alonso to 'recover', on his third lap, the first place he occupied throughout the entire weekend in Austin on his CFMoto.

Alonso lapped in 2:14.907, just under eight tenths of a second from the circuit record that he set in the morning at 2:14.153, although at that time all the Moto3 riders were pushing hard to try to improve their position.

This is how Jakob Roulstone beat David Alonso's record, who returned the action moments later to regain first place with 2:14.661 and still with the option of making one last trip to the workshops to change the rear tire again.

Alonso was the absolute dominator of all the training sessions, although on this occasion he did not beat the circuit record that he himself established in the morning at 2:14.153, ahead of Rueda and Holgado, who will accompany him on the front line.

The second line will be for Collin Veijer, Joel Kelso and Jakob Roulstone, with Matteo Bertelle, David Muñoz and Stefano Nepa on the third.

Adrián Fernández finished in twelfth position, with Iván Ortolá fourteenth, Joel Esteban seventeenth and Ángel Piquera, who did not achieve any valid time in that second classification, eighteenth.

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