Historical! Colombian David Alonso achieves victory in Lusail

In the much larger chasing group, the debutant Ángel Piqueras (Honda), champion of the ‘Red Bull Rokies Cup’ at 17 years old, was responsible for trying to maintain the differences.

At the halfway point of the race, the eighth of the sixteen laps that the Moto3 test was scheduled for, the situation had barely changed, as Daniel Holgado continued to be the leader of the leading group, despite Furusato’s attempts to be the leader. , but found the Spanish’s quick response.

Holgado wanted to control the situation at all times, although Taiyo Furusato often stood parallel to him to try to take away his position, without success, while behind them David Alonso repeated his strategy from last year of remaining crouched. but without ‘losing sight’ of the leading drivers.

Furusato made a mistake in turn ten of the eleventh lap that caused him to lose several positions in favor of David Alonso, Adrián Fernández and Riccardo Rossi, although without losing contact with the main group.

Little by little David Alonso was looking for his position, until he was behind Daniel Holgado on the twelfth lap, while Adrián Fernández tried to stop Taiyo Furusato’s new attacks.

Three laps from the end, Furusato managed to overtake both Adrián Fernández and David Alonso to take second, close in the wake of Daniel Holgado, who in the hasty braking at the end of the straight at the beginning of the fifteenth lap saw how on the inside Both Alonso and Furusato surpassed him, but the Spaniard regained first place just a few meters later.

The Japanese Ryusei Yamanaka was the first casualty of the main group, suffering a fall when he was at the tail of the group and David Alonso, making a slight error on the line, lost several positions to enter sixth to do the last lap, in which Adrián Fernández crashed in the fifth corner and Vicente Pérez could not avoid it, leaving both of them out of the race.

Alonso began his attack for victory shortly after and, close to Holgado, he waited patiently to reach the last corner of the track, in which he managed to place himself on the inside of it, gaining position from the KTM rider to achieve his first victory of the season. the season by just 41 thousandths of a second.

With Alonso at the top of the podium, he was accompanied by Daniel Holgado and Taiyo Furusato on the rest of the steps, with Riccardo Rossi, Collin Veijer, Stefano Nepa, Tatsuki Suzuki, Joel Kelso and Iván Ortolá – who staged a spectacular comeback after his fall at the beginning of the test – after them.

The debutant Joel Esteban, David Alonso’s teammate in the CFMoto team, finished in eleventh position, ahead of Ángel Piqueras and David Muñoz, who started from the workshop street, sixteenth.

Information from EFE Agency.