The Colombian David Alonso (CFMoto) has finished the season with his first world title with the fourteenth victory of the season, a new record of wins in a single year, by winning the Barcelona Solidaridad Moto3 Grand Prix, ahead of the Spaniards Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas) and Ángel Piqueras (Honda).
The third place was initially occupied by the also Spanish Adrián Fernández (Honda), who was sanctioned with a three-second penalty for going off the track in turn one and returning without losing time, so he fell from third to eleventh position.
Once again, David Alonso knew how to wait for the right moment to attack all his rivals and seal what was the seventh consecutive victory and the fourteenth of the season, a milestone sport that will be difficult to match and surpass in the future.
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After the world champion David Alonso, the second position in the championship goes to the Spanish Daniel Holgado, with 256 points, compared to the Dutchman’s 242. Collin Veijer, who finished third.
David Alonso came out like a shot as soon as the traffic light went out, followed closely behind him by the Spaniards Iván Ortolá (KTM) and Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas), while the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna) tried to catch up with them, but gave up some ground and the group already lost one rider, the Italian Stefano Nepa (KTM) in turn four.
Alonso dominated the initial turn without being able to break away from his pursuers, a group joined by the Spaniards David Muñoz (KTM), Ángel Piqueras (Honda) and Adrián Fernández (Honda).
In the third lap Daniel Holgado decided to take action and overtook David Alonso, who lost several more positions when he was beaten by David Muñoz and Adrián Fernández, and shortly afterwards also by Piqueras and Ortolá, with which the Moto3 race recovered its usual dynamic of the season, with constant overtaking in a large group of leading drivers of the race who were going to maintain that ‘tension’ until the final laps.
No driver managed to break the discipline of the group, which was led for several laps by Daniel Holgado, until on the sixth lap Adrián Fernández decided to attack, while Daniel Holgado, in his eagerness to regain first position, slipped into a couple of lines and for a few moments was overtaken by David Muñoz, although the Gas Gas driver soon returned to second place.
With Adrián Fernández at the head of the race, the main group stretched much further, but without breaking up at any point, with up to eighteen units in their ranks.
The ‘hacking’ between all the members of the group was a constant and Daniel Holgado did not want to give in, so in the eighth lap he regained the lead. always ‘harassed’ by Adrián Fernández who on the tenth lap attacked the Gas Gas driver again, while David Alonso, who had remained In the middle of the ‘pack’, he began to recover positions until he was third and David Muñoz and Iván Ortolá starred in a spectacular ‘touch’ in that same turn.
With Adrián Fernández, leader in the tenth lap, in his wake Daniel Holgado and David Alonso ‘tagged’ for second position, with David Muñoz also waiting for his opportunity, until four laps from the end the world champion decided to move to the action.
Thus, on the fourteenth lap David Alonso surpassed all his rivals, set a new fastest lap of the race and began to push hard at the head of the race, but on this occasion his rivals were not willing to be surprised and both Adrián Fernández and Daniel Holgado once again surpassed the champion.
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The ‘skirmishes’ in search of the last victory of the season had begun and only nine of the initial eighteen drivers remained and once again, at the start of the last lap, David Alonso was the leader and ‘pushed’ to get a few meters advantage that none of his rivals could neutralize.
David Alonso chained his seventh consecutive victory and the fourteenth of the season, ahead of the Spaniards Daniel Holgado and Ángel Piqueras, benefiting from the sanction to Adrián Fernández when leaving the circuit in turn one to avoid the fall.
Fourth place went to José Antonio Rueda (KTM), ahead of Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM), David Muñoz (KTM), Taiyo Furusato (Honda), Jacob Roulstone (Gas Gas), Iván Ortolá (KTM) and Collin Veijer, who They completed the top ten positions.
Fountain: EFE
