Juan Antonio Lladós
Montmeló (Barcelona), Nov 16 (EFE).- Colombian David Alonso (CFMoto) has managed to score his seventh pole position of the season by being the fastest in the second classification for the Barcelona Solidarity Moto3 Grand Prix, which It will be held on Sunday at the Barcelona-Cataluña circuit, in Montmeló, in addition to achieving a new absolute record for the category.
Alonso set a best time of 1:45.905, breaking his previous absolute record, set by himself last May, when he managed to stop the clock at 1:46.111.
With David Alonso on pole, he will be accompanied on the first starting line by the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna) and the Spanish Iván Ortolá (KTM).
Before starting the first classification and many teams having already finished outlining the formations with which they will compete in the Moto3 world championship in 2025, the BOE Motorsport announced the arrival of the first New Zealand rider to the category, Cormac Buchanan, while the CFMoto did the same with the veteran Italian rider Dennis Foggia, who drops from Moto2 to Moto3 to team up with the Spanish Máximo Quiles.
Quiles is one of the young debutants who, in addition, is under the ‘umbrella’ of the eight-time world champion, the Spanish Marc Márquez.
Now in strictly sporting terms, the Japanese Tatsuki Suzuki (Husqvarna) was the initial reference in the first classification, with a time of 1:47.301 on his third lap, followed by the Italian Matteo Bertelle (Honda), the Japanese Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM ) and the Spanish Marcos Uriarte (CFMoto), but still with half a session ahead.
It is already in the second start when everyone tries to beat Suzuki’s record, a goal that none of his rivals achieved, which allowed the Japanese to enter first in the second classification, ahead of Matteo Bertelle and the also Japanese Taiyo Furusato ( Honda) and Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM), who left out the Spanish Álvaro Carpe (KTM).
Carpe will thus start nineteenth, with Marcos Uriarte twenty-first and Xabi Zurutuza (KTM) twenty-fourth.
With hardly any time for rest, the second classification began, in which the world champion David Alonso (CFMoto) was the first reference to beat with a time of 1:46.026, followed two tenths of a second by Iván Ortolá (KTM), which had been the fastest in the morning, already four by Ángel Piqueras (Honda).
Alonso’s time was already a new absolute record for the category, beating the 1:46.111 that he himself established during the Catalan Grand Prix in May.
And the performance of David Alonso did not stop there, who despite having to overtake the Japanese Ryusei Yamanaka during his next fastest lap, once again broke the circuit record to lap in 1:45.905, the first time a Moto3 rider had lapped. in that second, which already gave him almost four tenths of a second advantage over Ortolá.
The mandatory visit to the workshops to change tires once again promoted the ‘fight’ of strategies, with many drivers looking for a ‘good wheel’ that would allow them to improve their best times, except in the case of Adrián Fernández (Honda), who had no problem going out alone, but with a time – sixteenth – very far from the drivers at the top of the table.
And, while Adrián Fernández completed a turn, Iván Ortolá and the Australian Joel Kelso (KTM) decided to go out on the track, with David Alonso in last position, avoiding as much as possible that anyone could follow his wheel.
Adrián Fernández managed to improve his personal best by lapping in 1:46.678, which allowed him to climb to sixth position, although moments later and trying to improve, he ended up crashing in the complicated turn five of the Catalan track.
Behind them, the rest of the drivers managed to start their flying lap before being shown the checkered flag, which allowed them to opt for a final fast lap in which none of them achieved their goal of overtaking David Alonso.
Thus, along with David Alonso, on the first line, there will be Collin Veijer and Iván Ortolá, with Ángel Piqueras (Honda), Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas) and Luca Lunetta (Honda), on the second.
The third line will be made up of the Spanish Adrián Fernández, the Japanese Taiyo Furusato and the Australian Jacob Roulstone (Gas Gas), with Tatsuki Suzuki, Stefano Nepa (KTM) and David Muñoz (KTM) on the fourth. EFE
