It’s just sixteen degrees and the track is 31. A sign that the morning sunshine has done its job well. The day before, we rode on a much fresher track than that. Ortola starts on pole, ahead of Veijer and the Honda of Fernandez, David Alonso, the 2024 champion, starts ten. Possible objective, Rossi’s record of eleven victories in 125 in 1997, David is at ten this year. The race is scheduled for 21 laps. With the good weather, the public seems to have arrived. And the t-shirt is out, don’t worry the public… Phillips Island receives hundreds of thousands of tourists each year, especially for the wild animals which sometimes cross the track, on the other hand the GP makes little revenue, 20,000 spectators l last year on Sunday. Holeshot for Ortola, in front of Munoz and Nepa, Munoz takes the lead. David Alonso is already six. Kelso, the local of the stage, he is Ozzie, takes power. David Alonso is three, in the leading group. Superb ten-a-side fight in the long, magnificent curves of this circuit, with the sun, great art! In a hodgepodge of which Moto3 has the secret (and it’s great, a spirit to absolutely keep) there are six overtakes in the same curve, Kelso still leader, Alonso three, Holgado is four, returning from a place from back of the grid at the start… Alonso, it’s usual, takes the lead, it’s not necessarily a test until the end, just to see… There are thirteen laps left and there are seventeen of them fighting each other touch-touch! To see, but Alonso remains there, in the lead. Not far ahead of the group, but ahead! Veijer/Ortola clash, two of the calibers of the peloton. Alonso let Fernandez’s Honda pass. He is on a Hard rear tire, which will in principle pay off at the end of the race. Five laps from the end, Alonso takes the lead again. He even gets a little air. Half a second is huge in Moto3. The AR Hard tire was in fact the secret… behind him, it’s a general melee for the podium, we’re delaying, like in any fight, Alonso takes off… Three seconds ahead and the record of Rossi is equal, eleventh victory this year! Holgado is two, Fernandez three.
FOUR VICTORY IN A ROW FOR ALONSO, LIKE MARQUEZ!
Indeed, to find such a series of domination in a very brawling engine, we have to go back to the year of Marquez’s 125 title! Furthermore, Rossi’s record of eleven victories in 125 is equaled, there are three GPs left to beat him and become a true legend of Moto3… Acosta already says of him that he will soon be with the stars of MotoGP, we are waiting for him impatiently, we need winners!
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