The Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna) achieved the second victory of his sporting career by winning the Gran Premio Estrella Galicia 0’0 in Spain on the ‘Ángel Nieto’ circuit, benefiting from the mistake made in the first lap by the Colombian of Spanish origin David Alonso (CFMoto).
The world championship leader, Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas), also improved compared to the training days and this allowed him to finish seventh and maintain the lead in the provisional classification of the world championship, now with six points ahead instead of two over David Alonso , which was able to recover after its fall to eleventh place.
The Japanese Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM) was the first protagonist of the day in Moto3 when he had mechanical problems with his motorcycle, which did not start initially, although his mechanics managed to solve it before the workshop street was closed to traffic to reach the their position in the starting formation.
As soon as the red light went out, David Muñoz (KTM) cornered David Alonso (CFMoto) to the outside to gain the position, although his somewhat aggressive attitude did not help him at all, because, in just a few curves, the Colombian of origin Spaniard had already recovered the first position that he earned on his own merits in training.
Thus, David Alonso already took the lead to complete the first lap, but at the entrance to the finish line, at the Jorge Lorenzo curve, he crashed when he lost grip on his front wheel and, although he tried to return to the race , did so in twenty-sixth position, more than thirteen seconds behind the lead.
David Muñoz assumed the role of leader in a race scheduled for 19 laps, but he barely lasted one lap at the front.
Muñoz endured the first lap, because in the next it was the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna) who took the lead of the race, with David Alonso without changing his twenty-sixth position.
The leading group in that third lap was already made up of fourteen drivers, led by Veijer, but which included all the favorites, including the Spaniards David Muñoz, Iván Ortolá (KTM), Joel Esteban (CFMoto), Adrián Fernández (Honda) , Ángel Piqueras (Honda) and the world leader, also Spanish Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas).
The pace imposed led to a first cut with six riders ahead, which included Veijer, Ortolá, Muñoz, Yamanaka, Esteban and the Australian Joel Kelso (KTM).
In just five laps the ‘gap’ of the leading sextet was already almost three seconds away and David Alonso had gained four positions – twenty-second -, although without yet achieving the pace he exhibited during the two days of training.
The second group was led for some laps by the Italian Stefano Nepa (KTM), with Holgado gaining positions until arriving behind him, whom he tried to overcome to assume the pace and try to reach the leading group, where it was Veijer who He set the pace.
Shortly after, in the tenth lap, the pace of the leading men claimed its first victims when Joel Esteban and Joel Kelso were dropped, with Veijer pulling ahead without giving in to his rivals, among whom David Muñoz was the one who held on best your pace.
A little further back, David Alonso was seventeenth on the thirteenth lap, six from the end, very close to the points, as he was already with the group that was fighting for twelfth position, which he reached just one lap later, although he was already making a bigger comeback. It seemed very complicated as the next group found themselves seven seconds ahead.
Veijer remained a solid leader, although with a ‘daunting’ pressure from David Muñoz, with Iván Ortolá and Ryusei Yamanaka a little more expectant behind them.
Yamanaka was gradually losing steam to remain in no man’s land, leaving a trio in the lead that was going to compete for victory in the ‘Ángel Nieto’ in Jerez in the last lap, but Collin Veijer knew how to close all the points perfectly. gaps and did not give any option to David Muñoz, who had to settle for second place, ahead of Iván Ortolá.
Behind, Yamanaka achieved a comfortable fourth place, with a group that fought for fifth place, of which debutant Joel Esteban crashed in that last lap and Joel Kelso won that place, followed by Adrián Fernández and Daniel Holgado, who continues leader of the competition.
Holgado now has a six-point advantage over David Alonso, who managed to largely correct his initial mistake to finish eleventh, just behind another Spanish debutant in the category, Ángel Piqueras (Honda).
2024-04-28 08:30:11
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