Leopard Honda’s Angel Piqueras completed an amazing Moto3 win at Misano in the San Marino Grand Prix.
For the 2nd celebration in a week a Spanish teen strolled the leading action of the podium for the very first time, following KTM Ajo’s Jose Antonio Rueda’s success in Aragon last Sunday.
The 17-year-old needed to work out 2 Long Lap charges after an accident with Britain’s Scott Ogden on Saturday and charged back from the deficit to beat GASGAS Tech3’s Daniel Holgado by 0.035 s – the closest ever race surface at Misano.
The victory symbolized the very first win for the 2023 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup champ in his launching Moto3 term after a gripping race in between 5 riders at the front and regular overtaking.
Holgado was runner-up for his 6th podium surface of the season and increased to 2nd in the champion standings as an effect. MT Helmet-MSI’s Ivan Ortola was the very first KTM rider in the category and completed an all-Spanish leading 3.
Honda Team Asia’s Taiyo Furosato took his Honda to 4th and the Japanese’s contact with world champion leader David Alonso on the last lap of 22 dropped the Columbian to 6th; later on the CFMOTO Aspar male was benched to seventh after a track restricts violation on the exact same flow. Alonso’s champion lead has actually been cut to 70 points
Australian Joel Kelso was for that reason risen to 6th on the BOE KTM. Husqvarna IntactGP’s Tatsuki Suzuki rode from 23rd on the grid to complete 8th.
Honda riders Luca Lunetta and Adrian Fernandez were both adjudged to have leapt the start and needed to serve 2 Long Lap charges. Lunetta had actually certified on the front row and the sanction offed hopes of home splendor however he rallied to ninth. SIC58’s Filippo Farioli was 10th.
Rueda went from the high of home grand prix spoils to the low of a 2nd corner crash as his race lasted all of a couple of seconds, while BOE Motorsports’ David Munoz and CIP Green Power’s Ricardo Rossi were the other fallers in the event.
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Cla Rider # Bike Laps Time Interval km/h Retirement Points 1
Á. Piqueras Leopard Racing
36 Honda 20
34’02.766
148.9 25 2
D. Holgado Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 96 GASGAS 20
+0.035
34’02.801
0.035 148.9 20 3
I. Ortola MT Helmets – MSI
48 KTM 20
+0.226
34’02.992
0.191 148.9 16 4
T. Furusato Honda Team Asia 72 Honda 20
+0.259
34’03.025
0.033 148.9 13 5
C. Veijer Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP
95 Husqvarna 20
+0.491
34’03.257
0.232 148.9 11 6
J. Kelso BOE Motorsports 66 KTM 20
+0.977
34’03.743
0.486 148.8 » …
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