David Alonso achieved his seventh pole of the season by being the fastest in the second classification of the Moto3 Solidarity Grand Prix of Barcelona, which will take place on Sunday at the Barcelona-Catalonia circuit, in Montmeló, in addition to having achieved a new absolute record for the category.
Alonso set a best time of 1:45.905 with which he beat his previous absolute record, set by himself last May, when he managed to stop the clock at 1:46.111. With David Alonso on pole, he will be accompanied on the first starting line by the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna) and the Spaniard Iván Ortolá (KTM).
Before starting the first classification and many teams having already finished sketching the formations with which they will compete in the Moto3 world championship in 2025, BOE Motorsport announced the arrival of the first New Zealand rider in the category, Cormac Buchanan , while the CFMoto did. the same with the veteran Italian driver Denis Foggiawho moves from Moto2 to Moto3 to team up with the Spaniard Maximo Quiles. Quiles is one of the young beginners who, in addition, is under the “umbrella” of the eight-time world champion, the Spaniard Marc Márquez.
Now, in strictly sporting terms, the Japanese Tatsuki Suzuki (Husqvarna) was the initial benchmark in the first ranking, with a time of 1:47.301 on his third lap, followed by the Italian Matteo Bertelle (Honda), the Japanese Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM) and the Spaniard Marcos Uriarte (CFMoto), but always half a session in advance.
It is already at the second start that everyone tries to beat Suzuki’s record, a goal that none of his rivals achieved, which allowed the Japanese to enter first in the second classification, ahead of Matteo Bertelle and the Japanese too Taiyo Furusato (Honda) and Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM), which left out the Spaniards Alvaro Carpe (KTM).
Carpe will come out nineteenthwith Marcos Uriarte twenty-first and Xabi Zurutuza (KTM) twenty-fourth. With little time to rest, the second classification began, in which world champion David Alonso (CFMoto) was the first reference to beat with a time of 1:46.026, followed by two tenths of a second by Iván Ortolá (KTM) , who had been the fastest in the morning, already four by Ángel Piqueras (Honda).
Alonso’s time was already a new absolute record for the categorybeating the 1:46.111 he himself set at the Catalan Grand Prix in May. And the performance of David Alonso did not stop there, who, although he had to overtake the Japanese Ryusei Yamanaka on his next fastest lap, once again broke the circuit record in 1:45.905, the first time a Moto3 rider did a lap there. second, which already gave him almost four tenths of a second ahead of Ortolá.
The obligatory visit to the workshops to change tires has once again favored the “battle” of strategies, with many drivers looking for a “good wheel” that would allow them to improve their best times, except in the case of Adrián Fernández ( Honda), who had no problem going out alone, but with a time – sixteenth – very far from the drivers at the top of the standings.
And, while Adrián Fernández was making a turn, Iván Ortolá and the Australian Joel Kelso (KTM) decided to take the track, with David Alonso in last position, avoid as much as possible that anyone can follow their wheel. Adrián Fernández managed to improve his personal best by running in 1:46.678, which allowed him to climb to sixth position, although a few moments later and trying to improve, he ended up crashing in the complicated fifth turn of the Catalan track.
Behind them, the rest of the drivers managed to start their flying lap before being presented with the checkered flag, allowing them to opt for a final fast lap in which none of them achieved their goal to overtake David Alonso. SO, Alongside David Alonso, in the front row, there will be Collin Veijer and Iván Ortoláwith Ángel Piqueras (Honda), Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas) and Luca Lunetta (Honda), in the second. The third row will be made up of Spaniard Adrián Fernández, Japanese Taiyo Furusato and Australian Jacob Roulstone (Gas Gas), with Tatsuki Suzuki, Stefano Nepa (KTM) and David Muñoz (KTM) on the fourth.
