The Spanish Sergio García Dols (GasGas) got the second pole position of his career sport to be the fastest in the official classification for the Argentine Grand Prix of Moto3in which he also achieved a new category record in the Termas de Río Hondo circuit, ahead of the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (KTM) and his teammate Izan Guevara.
García Dols set a best time of 1:48.429, which beat the previous record of the track, held by the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira (KTM) since 2015 with 1:48.977. The leader of the World Championship, the Italian Dennis Foggia (Honda), had to settle for eleventh position, almost seven tenths of a second behind the author of the ‘pole’.
From the first classification, the Japanese Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM), the Australian Joel Kelso (KTM) and the Italians Stefano Nepa (KTM) and Riccardo Rossi (KTM), who entered by the hair, on his last lap, got the pass to the second. , from a round in which the strong wind has already become an adversary to consider.
Four of the first eight riders to take to the track were Spanish, GasGas colleagues Sergio García Dols and Izan Guevara, Iván Ortolá (KTM) and Carlos Tatay (CFMoto), while the rest awaited the departure of some of the hares that might pull them out looking for a good time. The Japanese Kaito Toba (KTM) was the first leader of the final round of Moto3, with a time of 1:49.568 that gave him the lead by barely 16 thousandths of a second over the Spanish Sergio García Dols, who was the next leader in the third lap, in which he was overtaken by both Joel Kelso, Tatsuki Suzuki and Dennis Foggia, but the session had only just begun.
Kelso remained the leader with a time of 1:48.940 in the first outing to the track for the Moto3 riders, who came in a pack to do a single tire change and go out in search of the best possible classification.
And once again all the riders waited for the right moment to go out on the track behind a good wheel and the first to do so was the Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM), who insistently looked back down the workshop lane to see if someone was hooked to his wheel and many of them came out time too tight to complete a turn before making the flip turn.
Öncü did not improve his performance and finished fifteenth. The rest of the drivers barely had a second left before the flag lowered, with which they all managed to enter their last fastest lap, the one that was going to define the order of the starting line-up.
Sergio García Dols achieved the best final timeahead of Ayumu Sasaki (KTM) and his teammate Izan Guevara, with Ricardo Rossi fifth, ahead of Joel Kelso, Daniel Holgado (KTM), Xavier Artigas (CFMoto), Andrea Migno, Tatsuki Suzuki, Diogo Moreira, the leader of the World Cup Dennis Foggia, eleventh, with Jaume Masiá and the Japanese Kaito Toba and Ryusei Yamanaka behind him.
Ivan Ortolá (KTM) was fifteenth, with Carlos Tatay (CFMoto) in eighteenth position. Adrián Fernández (KTM) finished ninth in the first classification, which places him twenty-third, with Ana Carrasco (KTM) twenty-seventh and Gerard Riu (KTM) in penultimate position.
