Dani Holgado released his record in Portimao with fear

Dani Holgado He is another one of the future stars of Spanish motorcycling who has gone strong and after a first year as a rookie at Red Bull KTM Ajo with appearances in the top-10 and the podium in Aragon, at the age of 17 he has gone. on the next screen, premiering his list of Moto3 World Championship victories after carrying the brunt of the Portimao race and becoming the first World Championship leader to now wear the colors of KTM Tech3. The one from Sant Vicent del Raspeig surpassed the impetuous David Munoz third podium for the 16-year-old from Seville, and the Brazilian-trained Spanish motorcycling debut Diogo Moreirathree sophomore riders who have a lot to say in 2023. And just 31 thousandths from the podium named by the brilliant rookie Jose Antonio RuedaDon’t forget his name either.

The first discarded favorite was the Turk Deniz Oncu didn’t start the KTM in the warmup lap and had to start in the pitlane. The gust of wind coming off the Atlantic became an additional rival for the young drivers blowing from the front straight. From pole Sasaki, classified fourth in the 2022 World Cup lost the initiative to Kelso and rookie Rueda lost four positions at the start. The Australian had already tried to destroy the race from the opening turn and Holgado reacted quickly to pass Sasaki, very careful at this start, and then together with Kelso they pulled the group that was reduced to 13 riders after first third of the race. It was lap nine when Sasaki took the lead looking to stretch the pack, but instead the wind slowed him down and Holgado set the pace again for the pack of 12.

Four from the end, the leading group was starting to get tense with all the favorites except Oncu, who with three to go completed his return to the leading group, but now without a tire to finish. Holgado carried the brunt of the race until the final turn where he led ahead of Muñoz, Moreira and Sasaki. The Red Bull KTM Tech3 rider pushed to the finish line, which he crossed ahead of David Muñoz and Diogo Moreira, who wears Pelé’s number 10 on his helmet in honor of ‘O Rei’, Rookie José Antonio Rueda, current champion of the Red Bull Rookies Cup and the JR FIM World Championship, remained 31 thousandths of a second from his first podium in his third race, the previous two making substitutions.

Kelso panicked and hit the winner

Baggy after crossing the finish line started to celebrate the victory, he was scared by the clueless Kelso who ran into him from behind, putting his body at risk in a dangerous action. “What a blow, my neck almost broke,” Holgado has sentenced.

gg.didomi.doWhenConsent(!window.didomiBypass, ‘c:twitterwi-wUmBnnKy’, function () {
var x = document.createElement(‘script’);
x.setAttribute(“type”,”text/javascript”);
x.setAttribute(“src”, “//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”);
x.setAttribute(“charset”, “utf-8”);
$(“.twitter-tweet”).closest( “span” ).append(x);
});

As for the rest of the Spaniards, Jaume Masià, first Honda, leads the favorite Sasaki, Xavi Artigas eighth, David Salvador 13th and Anna Carrasco 23rd. Iván Ortolá fell on the 16th lap after completing a double long lap for throwing GasGas Aspar rider David Alonso on the fourth lap and he, after trying, was left five from the end.

Moto3 race classification